Seems to be some conflation of beats vs notes here? To my ear she drops a couple of notes of 3 notes the first time, with no beat dropped and the second pause she drops a whole beat so, 3+ notes before come back in on the on beat. Sounds like you were calling notes beats from your explanation? Anyway in my second clip I don't drop any more than her, just one beat so the gap should be the same as hers. Maybe you thought it was mine sounded like more just because she is playing faster in her video cip.Narzog wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:31 pm Her pauses were fine, but she only dropped a beat or two total. Not sure if it was needed to unclog or something or just intentional ornamentation. A lot of tunes can be repetitive so it can be cool to spice it up by playing repeat parts differently. If you could get your pauses to be this short and in the right spots, it would work. But the longer the pause, the fewer tunes it will work in. Short pauses and breaths fit in a lot more places than longer pauses.
I missed your new sound clip at the end. But listening to it now the playing is good but the pause is still too long. If its possible to swallow twice as fast and only miss 2 beats it might work. But ideal pauses are usually only 1. Just my opinion, I'm not an irish music master by any stretch.
The reason I went off topic talking about flutes, is to me there's always more than one was to fix a problem. A lot of the times people will be so busy trying to solve a problem one way that they might not notice the other possible solutions. I read your problem as you want to play live but have to pause to swallow. To me not needing to swallow is a lot easier than trying to make swallowing fit on every tune. Flute is just one of the ways to accomplish this. You can pick whatever solution you want, I'm just giving alternatives you can consider.
Also in terms of phrasing and where to do it, I am confused since people have saying only do it between phrases, yet she doesn't in this example yet it is considered 'right' or I don't get the meaning of what is and isn't a phrase. Anyway as people are saying this is right and good I can just follow her example and take it to other tunes.