BODHRÁN EXPLORERS ONLINE

September, October 2021 Booking Page

BODHRÁN EXPLORERS: THE SESSION

These workshops will be rooted in Irish traditional music with a wee bit of Scott’s and English folk for good measure! We will focus on tunes that are likely to crop up in a traditional music session and how to approach them on Bodhrán. We will work through a selection of tune specific patterns and ornaments that you can use as a foundation for building your own interpretation and dig a little deeper into the musicianship required for backing tunes on bodhrán effectively.

There will be a weekly playlist of tunes available with a selection of regularly played jig’s, reels, slides, slip jigs and hornpipes to get familiar with and build your practice around.

BODHRÁN EXPLORERS: WORKSHOPS

Bodhrán Explorers is a series of workshops for bodhrán players with some experience of playing, a desire to learn more and challenge themselves. Anyone who has participated in either my Creative Approach to the Irish Bodhrán course or my 6 week How To Play Bodhrán course is very well placed to join this group to develop their skills on bodhrán.

In these workshops we will journey through a range of in-depth technical and musical skills. Contemporary and traditional repertoire will be explored in detail, with forensic attention to form and technique being a basis for each session. You will have listening and practical work to take away, and past sessions have covered syncopated patterns and irregular time signatures, soloing, improvisation, and patterns inspired by other world rhythms.