Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I love "An Phis Fliuch" in this vid.
The slip jig by the same name isn't bad either.
Splash, out
Jason
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: fiddle blogging, Ireland, Music
Monday, July 06, 2009
Fiddle blogging
A wonderful lesson from a master.
(Scroll down and click the video link)
(Scroll down and click the video link)
Labels: fiddle blogging, Music
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Fiddle Blogging
Saturday, June 06, 2009
fiddle blogging
Niamh Ni Charra... showin' us how 6/8 time is done, before going into a couple of reels.
Notice that jig time isn't straight... it's thoroughly syncopated. She syncopates a bit more than most players, to give the tune a bit of a Scottish feel.
Lots of players play an evenly-divided three notes to the beat on these jigs. Down-da-da Down da da. Classically-trained players are the worst offenders. (Hint: Gigue = Jig, dumbasses! It's a DANCE!)
It's not Down-da-da, dumbass, unless you're playing chuck berry licks too fast. Even Chuck didn't do that. It's Down-ta-dah Down-ta-dah.
Enjoy.
Splash, out
Jason
Notice that jig time isn't straight... it's thoroughly syncopated. She syncopates a bit more than most players, to give the tune a bit of a Scottish feel.
Lots of players play an evenly-divided three notes to the beat on these jigs. Down-da-da Down da da. Classically-trained players are the worst offenders. (Hint: Gigue = Jig, dumbasses! It's a DANCE!)
It's not Down-da-da, dumbass, unless you're playing chuck berry licks too fast. Even Chuck didn't do that. It's Down-ta-dah Down-ta-dah.
Enjoy.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: fiddle blogging, fiddles, Music
Monday, April 06, 2009
Fiddle blogging
The great John Hartford.
The Force was strong with this one.
The Force was strong with this one.
Labels: Arts, culture, fiddle blogging, fiddles
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Fiddle blogging
Two reels from the great Chicago player Liz Carroll:
Also, for a more subtle beauty, don't miss this beautiful slow reel.
Also, for a more subtle beauty, don't miss this beautiful slow reel.
Labels: Arts, fiddle blogging, fiddles, Music
Monday, February 16, 2009
Fiddle Blogging
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Fiddle blogging
12-year old Charlotte Salouste-Bridoux.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go turn five-dollar tricks in the Pilot station truck lot until I get my self-esteem back.
Geez.
Splash, out
Jason
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go turn five-dollar tricks in the Pilot station truck lot until I get my self-esteem back.
Geez.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: fiddle blogging, fiddles, kids, Music
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
My YouTube Debut!
I'm the dork in the foreground with the pizza shirt and the fiddle.
That's Eamonn Dillon on the low whistle, and John Schreiber on guitar in the back there.
The first tunes is Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, which I learned from the playing of Kevin Glackin, here played in Gm instead of the traditional Dm. The second tune is Over the Moor to Maggie, here played in Bb rather than in G, to accommodate Eamonn's whistle.
Splash, out
Jason
That's Eamonn Dillon on the low whistle, and John Schreiber on guitar in the back there.
The first tunes is Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, which I learned from the playing of Kevin Glackin, here played in Gm instead of the traditional Dm. The second tune is Over the Moor to Maggie, here played in Bb rather than in G, to accommodate Eamonn's whistle.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: bloggers, fiddle blogging, friends, Ireland, Music, personal
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Fiddle blogging
Paddy Glackin on fiddle, playing for two dancers.
Love those tight, precise, warbly rolls. This is how it oughta be.
Love those tight, precise, warbly rolls. This is how it oughta be.
Labels: fiddle blogging, Music
Friday, September 12, 2008
Fiddle Blogging
There is a special place in Hell reserved for musicians who use too much vibrato. And the darkest pits in that special place have been earmarked for vocalists, violinists, and heavy metal guitar players.
So let's take a look at how expressive and powerful a simple tune can be... with no vibrato at all.
Vassen.
Josefin's Waltz.
So let's take a look at how expressive and powerful a simple tune can be... with no vibrato at all.
Vassen.
Josefin's Waltz.
Labels: fiddle blogging, Music
Sunday, August 17, 2008
It doesn't get any better than this.
Two lovely young ladies, still in their teens, but playing like great, great masters.
THeir names are Muireann Egan (flute) and Aofie O'Brien (fiddle) playing The Swallow's Nest and Fred Finn's.
Beautiful.
Go raith maith agat, ladies.
Jason
THeir names are Muireann Egan (flute) and Aofie O'Brien (fiddle) playing The Swallow's Nest and Fred Finn's.
Beautiful.
Go raith maith agat, ladies.
Jason
Labels: fiddle blogging, Music
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Fiddle blogging - Two jigs from a fine young player
I just can't say enough good things about Ms. Bronwyn de Paor, from Ennis, Ireland, and the way she plays these two jigs by Tommy Peoples.
Exquisitely done. Just exquisite.... and she's not even 18!
math dhà-rìreadh, a Mhàighdeann de Paor!
Splash, out
Jason
Exquisitely done. Just exquisite.... and she's not even 18!
math dhà-rìreadh, a Mhàighdeann de Paor!
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: fiddle blogging, fiddles, Music
Monday, May 26, 2008
Fiddle Blogging -Heavy Shtetl
Yitzak Perlman, sitting in with several different klezmer bands.
I fell in love with the music as a child - first hearing it around the Fairfax district of Hollywood, Los Angeles as a very young child (it was a Jewish area before it became countercultural, and for a while, it was an entertaining dichotomy of punk rockers in full Mohawk regalia and Orthodox Jews sharing the same sidewalk!) and later upon finding a recording from the Klezmer Conservatory Band in my stepdad's record collection.
Looking at it altogether, I think Perlman's a little over the top with the Yngwie Malmsteen stuff here, but if you're in the middle of it, you can't help but be carried away with its infectious energy.
This is a musical heritage that had the whole shtetl hopping, once upon a time.
Shalom,
Jason
P.S., Does he look like Dick Cheney to anyone else?
I fell in love with the music as a child - first hearing it around the Fairfax district of Hollywood, Los Angeles as a very young child (it was a Jewish area before it became countercultural, and for a while, it was an entertaining dichotomy of punk rockers in full Mohawk regalia and Orthodox Jews sharing the same sidewalk!) and later upon finding a recording from the Klezmer Conservatory Band in my stepdad's record collection.
Looking at it altogether, I think Perlman's a little over the top with the Yngwie Malmsteen stuff here, but if you're in the middle of it, you can't help but be carried away with its infectious energy.
This is a musical heritage that had the whole shtetl hopping, once upon a time.
Shalom,
Jason
P.S., Does he look like Dick Cheney to anyone else?
Labels: fiddle blogging, Judaism, Music
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
When I'm in my 80s
I wanna be just like Sean Maguire!
A maverick, an innovator, and a true original.
A maverick, an innovator, and a true original.
Labels: fiddle blogging
