🪕 How To Pick Irish Reels / Free Tutorial for The Wind That Shakes The Barley ⚡️

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

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[@KennethKing-y5s]

Love the music!

[@TheAlicehawk]

😊this helps so much! Thank you

[@garymollenkopf5228]

Excellent! Great clarification about picking direction.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@alastair6356]

Another great tune with great ornamentation and great tips of knowledge. Thanks for sharing. 👍😊

[@durmazon6963]

Keep up the good work.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Wow! Thank you, much appreciated

[@rykloske5273]

As always Enda .... Many thanks. 🪕🍀🙏

[@JonnyTwofifty]

That 'all the bells and whistles' is superb :)

[@TheAlicehawk]

Thanks!

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Thank you!!

[@csgrinds]

"Mega-slow", love it

[@JeremyPickett]

Im pretty sure Barley is on one of the chieftens earlier records. And i think--dont quote me on this--uts in the Green Book. Wonderful tune, and an excellent ine to practice rolls on

[@rosswilson4196]

Great lesson, lots of useful tips

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Thanks Ross

[@2244574]

That's just unreal playing Enda👌 Hopefully someday I'll be able to do some of that stuff you explained very well on my banjo 🪕 Keep up your great work 👍

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Thanks!! It’s all very easy really 😉

[@2244574]

@Irish Tenor Banjo with Enda Scahill you make it look easy, but I'm sure it's hard enough done 😁 Practice makes perfect, so I'm told👍

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

@@2244574 it definitely helps! Knowing how to do it quickens the learning process too

[@2244574]

@Irish Tenor Banjo with Enda Scahill I'm sure it does 😊 Keep up the great work anyway & hopefully, I'll learn something along the way from your videos. Thanks

[@MacallisterProject]

Congratulations for this great tutorial!!! I have a question, Is there some trick o way to attack the strings on triplets, i say this because i stuck the pick doing triplets so frequently. I have other strings instruments and it doesnt happend to me so often but on banjo is more difficult to me doing triplets. i use a dunlop nylon 0.6 i dont know if it is a good pick. In the past I got discouraged on practicing with banjo for this reason. Perhaps i need more and more practice but i think there is something i am missing. I get along well with speed, technique and rhythm but triplets... Thank you so much you are a magnific musician and a great teacher. Greetings from Spain!!!

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

hi! Triplets are all about pick hold, pick direction, a relaxed wrist, and picking angle. Good technique makes triplets very easy!

[@MacallisterProject]

@@IrishTenorBanjo Thanx so much, i'll try diferent ways to attack the strings with your advices. A video explaining it would be very interesting. Thanx again.

[@erik.3]

Thanks 👍

[@dannymccambridge7746]

Great lesson Enda. I bought your 2 books with cds. Excellent information. Your banjo seems to have a long neck. Do you have to use thicker gauge strings to increase string tension? Thanks

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

I use only slightly heavier strings and capo up to compensate

[@antoniomalacarne9562]

I always pick the triplets down-up-down and then down again as you say in the video. However, when the reel during the session starts to be very fast (112-120 bpm) I can't stay in it anymore. I've seen videos of J. O'Connor where he actually often alternates picking verse in the reel, hitting up after the triplet. My limit I guess it also comes from the way I hold the pick: between the last joint of the thumb and the last joint of the index finger.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Pick hold can definitely be an issue as it creates tension and at higher speeds this causes problems. My suggestions for pick patterns and directions WILL work, but they can always be adapted to include DUD-U where necessary. My theory is that once a picking pattern is established and is comfortable we can change as needed because we're in control of what's happening

[@pamelajomusic]

Does mandolin follow the same picking pattern convention as banjo?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Yes, this absolutely works the same for mandolin

[@milesnagopaleen]

This might be confusing to Americans. In American parlance, a whole note is what we call a semibreve, a half-note is a minim, a quarter note is a crotchet, and an eighth note is a quaver. So what you refer to as a "whole note" is, in American terminology, a quarter note.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Isn’t language wonderful! And confusing! Good thing I’m not talking about inches and centimetres, total confusion!!

[@milesnagopaleen]

@@IrishTenorBanjo The American terminology makes more sense. The note names describe their relative length & hence are easy to remember. The time signatures are self-explanatory: 4/4 means a bar has four quarter-notes; 6/8 means a bar has six eighth notes, etc. Easier than semi-demi-quavers!

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

@@milesnagopaleen I was loosely basing it on the Irish model : 4/4 4 beats per bar, 8 half notes!! Music wins whatever way we count it