🎻☘️ West Clare Irish Fiddle Course - Lesson 1 🎶 With Therese McInerney

Master a unique tune from West Clare on your fiddle! 🎻🎶 In this lesson, we're exploring a traditional melody that's been a staple in the West Clare repertoire for generations called Elizabeth Kelly's Slip jig. We'll also delve into some subtle variations and ornamentation that give this tune style and character. So grab your fiddle, and let's get started!
Learn the fiddle at your own tempo! Pause the video, slow down, rehearse, and revisit as many times as necessary. This approach ensures you're not just playing the strings, but really soaking in the music. So, what's holding you back? It's time to rosin up your bow and play the music you love, the Irish way! 🎻🎶 www.oaim.ie/course/west-clare...
00:00 Intro - Tune played in its entirety
00:59 First part of the tune taught slowly
10:04 Second part of the tune taught slowly
15:30 Whole tune practice
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Join Therese McInerney as she brings you on a musical tour around the town lands and villages of West Clare. She introduces us to many of the tunes played by the great fiddle players of the area who have endowed upon future generations a rich heritage of music.
Therese is a vault of local lore and a skillful fiddle player. When she's not serenading us with her fiddle, you can find her hosting a traditional music show on Clare FM’s Westwind-give it a listen online!
No need to worry, as the tunes in this course are not difficult tunes, but rather easy and repetitive in nature. Therese breaks them down slowly, phrase by phrase, drawing particular attention to creating simple variations in the tunes through a variety of methods. She covers double stops (chords), ornaments, triplets, the substitution of notes with those of a different tone, and the use of long notes in dance tunes. All these methods bring accentuation to the tune as well as variation.
By the end of this journey, you'll be able to play 13 iconic West Clare tunes that are cherished in Irish sessions. More than just learning the tunes, you'll get a glimpse into the subtle nuances that make Irish music so enchanting. So, are you ready to add tunes like 'Elisabeth Kelly’s Slip Jig', 'The Luachrachan Jig', 'Sheep in a Boat, Jig', 'Sonny Murray’s Hornpipe', and many more to your repertoire? Let's embark on this adventure together! 🎻🎶 www.oaim.ie/course/west-clare...
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