Sheila Falls: Slurring in Irish fiddle music

Slurring in Irish fiddle music

[@ICanHazRecon911]

Just wanna say I found this years ago (It was posted around that time) when I first started getting into the violin. I haven't actually haven't played in some years but I keep coming back to this video and it's inspiring me to get back into it!

[@karasarahbcgee]

I am here listening to this again. Can't help it. It's all I wanna hear when I am drinkin

[@karasarahbcgee]

I could listen to this all day every day. Beautiful fiddle

[@venturini09]

Fantastic explanation!!!! Well thought out, to the point, and well executed---thanks to the player and the man who posted this.

[@FeryAndrianus]

Wow! Very detailed! I'm gonna try it. Many thanks for the tips. Really helpful :)

[@OnlySethDavis]

She's a great teacher for someone more advanced. Very easy to follow.

[@yuudai1400]

Thank you so much for sharing this! The lesson REALLY helped a beginning violin student not able to take formal lessons. Was totally valuable to my learning.

[@1happy4mama]

Thanks Sheila! This is a very nice video.

[@luvhambo]

Thanks so much! You not only sound great, you explain this extraordinarily well. Very Helpful.

[@BadPennyDogBoy]

This is wonderful! A 10 minute tutorial and enough to keep me busy for weeks! A huge thank you to both bobchildsplay and Sheila Falls for her many postings.

[@BarryCorbin2024]

Terrific video, great tutorial!

[@feniciacia]

Thaks a lot for shareing this!!

[@Tholopotami]

Thank you!!! I'm currently learning this song from a book, & you just saved me!!!!

[@hope19792]

This was immensely helpful. I think you do need to have a certain amount of training and skill to understand it, however, in reference to some other comments. For me it was perfect!

[@rtscala17]

Just what I was trying to figure out. Thank you,

[@tillstringsdouspart]

Fantastically helpful! Thank you very much Sheila.

[@allaboutalma1100]

I am so grateful for this explanation!

[@Blossom2023]

i do irish dance and i always listen to this song for pratice its soo fun. GO CLOVERS!!!!

[@baileythomas2491]

THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@danroseberry]

Super tutorial, Sheila! Thank you for your effort. I certainly hope you do not take the comments of James M seriously! You are awesome and I for one appreciate your expertise. I plan to watch this tutorial again and again as I strive to move far enough forward that I might be able to at least glimpse the cloud of dust you left me in a long time ago:)

[@Lisnageeragh]

Good demo....there is a 'slur and cut' style which was taught around Leitrim and Longford..great demo on Roll. Ther is no mystery about this stuff ....well done!

[@KatyAdelson]

I like the three-note-slur idea for reels--I'm going to try that! There's also a bowed cut (I think it's called that??) that's fun to do when there are repeating notes. ^^

[@1xstew]

Thanks very much for all this . . I've learnt some much in a short space of time . . only been playing 2 years , no a few tunes but can't make them side irish if you know what i mean . . this slurring lesson has been very helpful.

[@CroatianMinecrafter]

Thank you man, I have been searching for ages for it. And sorry for my lame English :)

[@alexadicocco]

It looks so easy too her!

[@jasomeeko]

you play and teach beutifully and very pretty as well

[@columhickey]

Good explanation...especially starting slur on lower note. Thx

[@Banjo362]

Thank you so much this really helped. This helped with music I write in my head. I write music that sounds old.

[@walkinguphill5178]

thanks so much!! turns out I was rolling correctly, just need to work on speed :/ because of people like yourself I have learned fiddle. sincerely, thank you :)

[@dylandereere1445]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

[@TheShamroqDude]

This is great!! thanks!!! :))

[@Lisnageeragh]

Well explained ...trad music can be systematically taught! A good student can learn. I love the way you take the Celtic Mystery out of your demonstrations. A clean fiddle ...no resin...what are we coming to?? Notes all in tune also.

[@gcdev]

I have spent ages trying to make a tune sound Irish, Wish I had seen this first.

[@wilson8029]

That helps a lot! Thx!

[@Melvorgazh]

An-dheas an Sagart Cheoil! 👍🏻😎

[@BrawlerMKP]

Irish music makes me think of nature

[@arnearne12345]

irish music for the win

[@adrs1212]

Very good video. I love the song. What is the name of the tune?

[@reddyandre]

A few comments-Sheila: you are a great teacher; just excellent the way you break it down, and your body position is such a great lesson in itself. HOWEVER, the camera keeps going to your fingers just when I want to watch your bow. As a matter of fact, this lesson is all about slurring, which is bow work. There should be no finger shots. Another comment: Bob- on most of your videos, I'd like to see the player playing, pleeeeeeeeeeze....

[@promotorfidei88]

More, my dear!!!

[@beorn9188]

She's playing 'The Musical Priest'.

[@drewthomasarnal5378]

Thank you

[@ardenn234]

man i wish i had musical talent....

[@Hshsuiiien]

you're playing reminds me of Brendan Callahan =D

[@Radbalahhouse]

Wonderfull

[@Elbownian]

Really helpful for beginner! Go raibh mile maith agat!

[@mebeanonymousonytube]

well I got that down Pat... on my computer. Instruments are beyond me.

[@CroatianMinecrafter]

Thanks :)

[@Melvorgazh]

Is there a video on the slurs, rolls and cuts for the guitar? Go raibh maith agaibh!

[@MewMew123waffles]

I want to be able to do that.... ;-;

[@Maxischupp93]

@burstingeagle377 me too and i have to play it every single day on my guitar XD

[@misty0c408]

That's great! What's the neme of this tune?

[@Therehasbeenan]

nice

[@JeraSpencer]

Not wanting to sound naive in case it's a tune I "should" know... I'd love to know what song this is as I'd LOVE to learn how to play it!! !! !!

[@82Meganr]

What is the name of that tune? just learnt it and would love to have the name!

[@Zeno_Lilly]

i play the violin and i really want to play this but haha i cant play this xD

[@Mattmike45]

which fiddle is that? it sounds great!!

[@margaretblurton3807]

Sheila I thought this tutorial was WONDERFUL (except perhaps for the cuts to the fingerboard, as someone else mentioned - not helpful in a BOWING tutorial!). I am sure I am on the verge of a breakthrough with my playing. It's all very well for people to say "watch other people", but it's all over so fast in a session, so it was great to have a blow by blow account of one good way to play this tune. Now I know this may seem greedy... but is there any way you could do another tune, eg Christmas Eve, or Bank of Ireland, or any other reel of your choice, to go with the Priest? Pretty please?

[@venturini09]

Where are you getting the idea that this is a BOWING tutorial (just because she mentions cross-bowing?) The technique being shown is a FINGERBOARD technique.

[@jorgeduartefilho3402]

venturini09 Actually the title does say "Slurring in Irish Fiddle Music" she was showing a peculiarity in irish fiddle musics but +Margaret Blurton actually has a point. I do love this tutorial and I'm already able to play this tune. Thanks for the time to make this tutorial.

[@houlberg]

Great video, but it seems to me Sheila is not playing the way she instructs.? It really confuses me.

[@glencaple]

VERY beautiful lady. Shame Scottish women aren't so nicely brushed :(

[@dwaynedibbly]

is it a general rule to slur in 3s? as im trying to figure out the paterns atm.

[@BrawlerMKP]

@NSigounis can you give me the name of that book?? Pleaseee

[@CroatianMinecrafter]

What's the name of the song she first played?

[@annalysac435]

Which reel is she playing?

[@glencaple]

Please tell me the name of the tune someone. Thank you.

[@roughout]

What are you playing? It looks big like a viola.

[@沈浩男-j7w]

the Musical Priest

[@TheDonaldido]

IS your version inspired by Jordi Savall's version?

[@HappyFeller9918]

0:16 free replay. your welcome

[@carriekopczinski]

Sheet music pleeeeeese!!!

[@geezmcgeez]

Carrie Pascoal Kopczinski go to thesession.org. search The Musical Priest. You will get some sheet music. There will probably be different versions of the tune there. Alternatively you can do an image search for The Musical Priest and find some printed music. She plays a version that is quite standard with highly classical leanings. You will find, as you explore traditional Irish music there are subtle variations player by player, area by area. But the basic tune remains recognizable. Kevin Burke has a youtube video where he plays this tune as the 4th in a set.

[@carriekopczinski]

Thank you for sharing this site. I was looking for something like that.. Nice kind of music!

[@carriekopczinski]

Omg, its impossible.. i can t even do the 5 first notes..

[@carriekopczinski]

Hey! I got it! Now i know The Musical Priest Hahaha, too epic! Thank you all for helping me.

[@hypicsiamascarosi]

should study it more technically, your right arm...

[@lowellirish]

Actually, It's the musical priest... and (IMO) - done very mechanically, overly fast, with very mechanical rolls and grace notes- 100% CLASSIClLIST-There was no feeling put into it.. no "lift" or "lilt"... have a listen to some tradtionalists playing it, and you'll hear a huge difference! To be fair, however, she does a fine job of directing how the piece evolves; but lacks direction in emphasizing down-bowing technique- essential in playiing Irish tunes.

[@frankblangeard8865]

I checked your channel for videos of your playing or instructing. None were to be found. Since you are such an expert I suggest that you share your remarkable talents.

[@danroseberry]

James, it is in my humble opinion that you do not understand the difference between playing for instructional purposes and playing for entertainment and musical expression. If Sheila were playing this same piece to entertain us, you would find it to sound quite different from this instructional portion. Your foolish remarks are potentially harmful to the instructor as well as a nuisance to those who understand what is trying to be accomplished here.

[@notimportant4268]

James M Perhaps I don't have an ear for such things...However, the techniques she's using sound flawlessly executed. Furthermore, her analysis seems quite logical, and further illustrates her experience. she's clearly made her instrument an extension of herself. Her ability to play makes her music look as effortless as breathing. lastly: from a purely aesthetic perspective, the sound cries from her fiddle and tugs at the listener's heartstrings. the sweet haunting melody conjures emotions of sadness and tear-stained smiles simultaneously. In short: This woman very obviously knows what she's talking about, and I'm disappointed that we only get to see her perform for 40 seconds before she begins lecturing.

[@herbertwells8757]

Frank Bangeard: You're completely out of line. Whether or not James M's criticisms are valid or not, they are reasonably expressed, and he tempers them with praise as well. No one posting comments on KZbin is in anyway obliged to post videos as well. Dan Roseberry: There may be something in what you say, but I wonder if the initial demonstration, before the actual instruction begins shouldn't be representative of her full professional technique (within the constraints of the piece, that is). Not Important: Whether it is indeed "flawlessly executed" depends, I suppose, on the aims of the idiom. Is the violin in this idiom supposed to sound like a bagpipe?

[@Chrissummerill]

You know John Sheahan, fiddle player from the Dubliners and probably the most famous Irish fiddle player in the world was classically trained right???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂. The lady can play man.

[@duncanlaing6078]

Wee bit slow