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ONLINE IRISH MUSIC INSTRUMENT COURSES Covering 14 Irish Traditional Music Instruments Plus Song OAIMNLINE ACADEMY OF IRISH MUSIC ACADEMY SYLLABUS ONLINE IRISH MUSIC INSTRUMENT COURSES Covering 14 Irish traditional music instruments plus song. New Courses added regularly, checkCourses Page for full listing. Includes direct link to Course Page for more information. www.oaim.ie SUITABLE NUMBER LINK TO COURSE FOR WHO IS THIS COURSE NAME INSTRUMENT TUTOR COURSE DESCRIPTION OF ON COMPLETION PAGE FOR MORE ABSOLUTE COURSE FOR LESSONS INFORMATION BEGINNER Your tutor Kirsten Allstaff will guide you every step of the way. First, you will learn how to hold the instrument, proper hand & finger posture and good basic technique, which are all important basics to By the end of the course, the This course is aimed at the get right before you move on. Then, there is a learner will have a repertoire of absolute beginner whistle progressive study of scales, articulation and seventeen popular Irish session player. Tin whistle Basics is Tin Whistle Basics Whistles Basics Tin Whistle Kirsten Allstaff Yes ornamentation with relevant exercises throughout, 17 tunes, the ability to play cuts, Course Page an excellent starting point all learned through the tutor’s precise choice of taps and rolls as well as a for any aspiring Irish tunes for the appropriate level of ability. The 'Whistle deeper understanding of the musician. Basics' course will equip the beginner whistler with Irish music tradition. the necessary rudiments to begin a journey down the long and adventurous road of Irish whistle playing. The techniques recapped in this course include: cuts, Due to popular demand, By the end of the course you taps, slides, the breath, articulation and Easy Tin Whistle Session will have a repertoire of 15 easy rolls. Technique studies are kept simple and Tunes has been created as and popular Irish Session basic. Most of the lessons feature a technical exercise Easy Tin Whistle Easy Tin Whistle Session a companion and follow- tunes, 8 reels and 7 jigs, that Session Tunes Course Tin Whistle Kirsten Allstaff No designed to optimise the learning of specific scale 15 Page Tunes on course to our most you can easily master with little patterns, ornamentations and articulation popular course here on effort under the expert methods. When these techniques are practised OAIM the Tin Whistle guidance of master whistler, regularly and at consistent tempo, they contribute to Basics course. Kirsten Allstaff. building finger dexterity, the mark of tin whistle mastery. Kirsten explores simple tin-whistle embellishments By the end of the course the such as the cut, tap, roll and the slide. Emphasis is player will be more The course 'Tin Whistle placed on breathing, phrasing, variation and rhythm comfortable playing Foundations' is a throughout the thirteen taught tunes. Jigs, Slides, ornamentation on the whistle, Tin Whistle Foundations Course Tin Whistle Foundations Tin Whistle Kirsten Allstaff No continuation from the Reels, Hornpipes, Barndances and an O'Carolan 13 will have a broader repertoire Page previous two tin whistle composition are all featured. In the videos, Kirsten and a better knowledge or Irish courses. teaches each tune slowly, phrase by phrase and music and will be ready to recommends that students learn with her this way, explore more advanced tunes by ear. and tin-whistle techniques. © Online Academy of Irish Music. Join us and keep Irish Music alive wherever you are in the world. A la fin du cours vous aurez Ensemble nous découvrons l'instrument: la position donc appris douze morceaux des mains, le doigté, la gamme de base, l'octave, populaires du répertoire de comment séparer les notes, les ornementations de musique traditionnelle base. D'une maniére progressive, nous couvrons les https://www.oaim.ie/ti Cours Debutants de Tin Pour un débutant Irlandaise, vous serez capable n-whistle/cours- Tin Whistle Gwenn Frin Yes éléments essentiels nécessaire pour commencer 13 debutants-de-tin- Whistle en Francais complet. de jouer les ornementations whistle-en-francais/ votre voyage musical en tant que joueur de tin simples et vous aurez un bon whistle. Dans chaque leçon nous apprenons un aperçu des différents types de morceau et couvrons la/les difficultés techniques morceaux de musique qu'il présente en détail. Irlandaise. Wichtige Grundlagen, zum Beispiel, wie man die Flöte hält, die richtige Hand- und Fingerstellung und eine gute Grundtechnik, werden in den ersten Am Ende des Kurses verfügen Lektionen vermittelt. Während des ganzen Kurses die Teilnehmenden über ein werden Tonleitern, Verzierungen und die Artikulation Repertoire von siebzehn schrittweise und mit entsprechenden Übungen bekannten irischen Liedern, sie Dieser Kurs richtet sich an Tin Whistle-Grundkurs - erarbeitet. Der Grundkurs rüstet angehende Whistler beherrschen das Spielen von https://oaim.ie/tin- Tin Whistle Kirsten Allstaff Yes Anfänger auf der Tin 17 whistle/tin-whistle- German Subtitles und Whistlerinnen mit den erforderlichen Cuts, Taps und Rolls und Whistle. grundkurs/ Grundlagen für die lange und abenteuerliche Reise haben sich eine tiefere durch die traditionelle irische Whistlemusik aus. Kenntnis der traditionellen irischen Musik angeeignet. Wenn Sie die Videolektionen mit Google Chrome ansehen, werden die Informationen und Tipps unterhalb der Videos automatisch übersetzt. The aim of this course is to discover and enhance the Discover new ways of adding Tin whistle players who learner's own playing style, and to increase their texture and colour to a https://www.oaim.ie/tin- are comfortable with confidence through learning and incorporating a Expert Whistle Skills #1 Tin Whistle Thomas Johnston No 13 carefully selected repertoire of whistle/expert-whistle- playing and ready to wide range of ornaments, variations and other skills-1/ challenging jigs, slip jigs, reels, develop their style. advanced stylistic features such as crans, trills, slides, and hornpipes. and tonguing in their playing. In this course Thomas continues to explore more advanced whistle techniques such as the trill, vibrato, different types of rolls and tonguing Master the trill, vibrato, Expert Whistle Skills 2 is technique. Emphasis is also placed on variation in different types of rolls and designed to follow on ornamentation, phrasing, melody and rhythm. tonguing technique. Emphasis https://oaim.ie/tin- Expert Whistle Skills #2 Tin Whistle Thomas Johnston No 13 whistle/expert-whistle- from Expert Whistle Skills Although aimed at the advanced player, this course is also placed on variation in skills-2/ #1 has much to offer the less experienced player also. ornamentation, phrasing, The learner is given the tools to transfer these new melody and rhythm. acquired skills to tunes which they already have in their repertoire. © Online Academy of Irish Music. Join us and keep Irish Music alive wherever you are in the world. The tutor will patiently guide you from holding the stick and the drum, and learning the basic stroke, right through to sophisticated patterns on the drum, step by step. The emphasis in this course is on technique. The tutor equips you with the rudiments This course is designed to you will need to develop your own style of playing. equip the beginner with all the You will also learn fail proof techniques to https://oaim.ie/bodhran/ Bodhrán Basics Bodhrán Brian Fleming Yes Suitable for beginners. 13 rudiments necessary to differentiate between reels and jigs and how to bodhran-basics/ tastefully accompany follow the structure of a set of tunes in your playing. traditional Irish music. Lessons 7 and 10, respectively will tell you all you need to know to get going on the bones and spoons, respectively, so that you will have the full quiver of traditional Irish percussion instruments in your armory. In this course 'Bodhrán Technique', maestro percussionist Jim Higgins presents a range of rhythmical accompaniments to cover a variety of tune types - Reels, Jigs, Slipjigs, Slides, Polkas and Hornpipes. Over the course of the13 tutorials, Jim Learn a range of rhythmical discusses and demonstrates many techniques that accompaniments to cover a the learner Bodhrán player can add to his palette of https://oaim.ie/bodhran/ Bodhrán Technique Bodhrán Jim Higgins No Improver. 13 variety of tune types - Reels, techniques - rolls, backhand motion, the use of bodhran-technique/ Jigs, Slipjigs, Slides, Polkas and syncopation, the 'Bo Diddley Beat', and rim Hornpipes. techniques to name but a few. As a drummer, he frequently discusses how to apply what can be done on a drum kit to the Bodhrán. The video tutorials are in a split screen format, so the learner can view the back hand as well as the forehand at all times. It begins with a series of six lessons which teach how to hold the instrument, proper posture, bowing The 'Fiddle Basics' course will technique and two easy tunes. Good basic technique equip the beginner fiddle is addressed throughout the tutorials. OAIM’s unique, player with fourteen great This course is for the animated fiddle graphics supports the student and tunes as well as all the https://oaim.ie/irish- Fiddle Basics Fiddle Niamh Dunne Yes 18 beginner fiddler. helps one to learn more efficiently. In the necessary rudiments to start fiddle/fiddle-basics/ subsequent twelve lessons, there is a progressive the journey down the long and study of fingering, bowing, tunes and adventurous road of Irish fiddle ornamentation. Emphasis is placed on tempo, playing. rhythm and tone when teaching the tunes. © Online Academy of Irish Music. Join us and keep Irish Music alive wherever you are in the world. In this course, Aidan passes down the skills, knowledge and repertoire from the great Donegal Bowing techniques: the use of fiddlers to the fiddle students of OAIM. All the tunes the up-bow, tight bowing, This course is a 'must' for taught are firmly rooted in the Donegal tradition; open and closed triplets and any student interested in stalwarts such as 'The Glen Road to Carrick', 'Bundle cranns.
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