Backer Corner with Matt Heaton - Hornpipe Rhythm

[@robertdurando7152]

Great stuff Matt, thanks for sharing your approach to backing. Cheers!

[@ShannonHeatonMusic]

Thanks, Robert. It's great having this backer input, for sure! Nothing like a quarantine to finally get Matt to offer videos for all.

[@Melvorgazh]

Can't have enough of Matt lessons. 1 quality ^^

[@ShannonHeatonMusic]

So great! Thank you for your good vibes, and for weighing in on the tunes. At the session yesterday you mentioned you'd never written a tune before? Now's a good time! Can't wait to hear what you come up with.

[@Melvorgazh]

@@ShannonHeatonMusic Hi Shannon. Yep, but I invented chord progressions and wrote a few poems with my typewriter, and a poem can become a song easily :) But an entire tune, long ago in a Breton style I'd say. I woul be honoured to have you as one of the first to hear any ríl or pórt dúbáilte composition. My Celtic music teacher Ruddy Velghe, ex-Orion band told me I was quite inventive :) Take care, Shannon. Always a pleasure. ps: I remember seeing in a video with you Matt doing some flatpicking too, and it was quite lovely, and clean, really Irish style with grace and not basic bluegrass flavoured. Would you know which video it was? Now I'm going to learn that Star Wars jig Caitlín Warbelow lesson made :) and also finishing learning that Bucks of Oranmore, then I'll give it a try composing maybe this weekend or next week. Have a lovely week ;)

[@tradbodhran7795]

More excellence from Matt. Thanks!

[@ShannonHeatonMusic]

so glad if these are helpful!

[@PaulMagnussen]

Firstly, Matt, thanks for all the wonderful lessons. You briefly mention hybrid picking here, and I have a question about that. I gather you have a Master’s in classical guitar. I played classical first before moving to folk guitar, and now I can play folk finger-style or flatpick, both quite comfortably. What I can’t do is hybrid picking. The reason is that in classical you’re taught to keep your hand steady: the movement comes just from the fingers. But to do a downstroke with a flatpick, you have to move your wrist; thus hybrid picking feels completely unnatural to me. So I’d like to ask you which you learnt first, classical or folk; and if the former, did you have the same problem I have?

[@ShannonHeatonMusic]

Shannon here, taking dictation from in-house backer: When Matt first started hybrid picking it was def a challenge (for the reasons you'd mentioned). He played rock and classical first. "The way I approached it first was by doing arpeggios: pick, middle, ring. I did these in different combinations. This is how I learned to find the angle where you can have independence between fingers and pick. There are definitely aspects of hybrid picking that would be no-no's in the classical world. I often anchor my wrist on the bridge, and generally the hand angle is much lower than it would be for classical. Hope this helps!"

[@matojorodante7737]

Good morning, could you please tell me the name of the song that is heard right at the beginning of the video? Thank you very much, greetings from Spain!

[@ShannonHeatonMusic]

Hello, Matojo - The short bit with the flute is the Golden Castle Hornpipe. A lovely tune!

[@matojorodante7737]

@@ShannonHeatonMusic Thank you very much,it is really lovely! :)