Foot Tapping

[rorybbellows]

Hey Elbowmusic,
did you not find the videos of Rory Bellows ?

I dont understand it, all my clips have mysteriously disappeared.

RORY

[geoff wooff]

Hey Elbowmusic,
did you not find the videos of Rory Bellows ?

I dont understand it, all my clips have mysteriously disappeared.

RORY

Yes, I noticed !

How's about putting up a demo of ' how not to play without foot tapping' ?

[MTGuru]

I once tried tapping my foot while playing, but my hand wouldn't reach that far.

[PCL]

My left foot likes to be involved. Sometimes. It is DANCE music were talking about.

I was playing 'The Blackbird' this afternoon and my right foot joined in. Where will it all end?

[tommykleen]

I dunno: I have often marveled at Máire Ní Ghráda's 2nd-&-4th-beat tapping. Gives the music an interesting momentum.

[ennischanter]

Hey Elbowmusic,
did you not find the videos of Rory Bellows ?

I dont understand it, all my clips have mysteriously disappeared.

RORY

Yes, I noticed !

How's about putting up a demo of ' how not to play without foot tapping' ?

I suggest duct tape, or hammer a nail in if you want to take the more extreme route....

[ausdag]

Even this rank amateur had better pack away his pipes and take up the bodhran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsPcjlmnp1U at 0:30

[Hans-Joerg]

I didn't want to tap my foot but wound up having to. There was this bodhran player you see. He always sped up and also played erratically. I was able to overcome the situation with a good hefty stomp. These days I try to keep it under control... it can feel good though in a big thundering session

Patrick

BTW - does somebody know a source for an adhesive-pic of a darts game that you could stick onto a bodhrán?

[Brazenkane]

I don't think there's much wrong with foot tapping. I 100% agree with Peter, that when it becomes a feature it's a total distraction (at least for me). It's the double foot stompers that drive me mad, personally.

I've seen both Robbie Hannan and Maire Ni Ghrada switch between tapping on 1&3, and 2&4. Robbie tells me he got the 2&4 idea from Jimmy O'Brien Moran.

I've heard audience members be amazed at how rock-solid a player's time was. What greatly influenced there observation what the sound of the tapping. In actually, when I heard the play-back (of the recording I made), their time was no better or worse than someone who had good time. It was just where the LOUD thumping was happening that gave the experience that the rhythm was somehow better.

Hey... if such a thing get such a reaction, perhaps I should adopt that to my act?

[Lorenzo]

The only reason I tap my foot is so the audience can understand the tune! Most of the time people, unfamiliar with Irish music, have no idea where you are.

I saw a poster once that said, "friends don't let friends clap on one and three" (not sure about the feet though!)

[myles]

Does anyone know the name of the second hornpipe David Power plays in that clip linked to a few posts back? Tried running it through tunepal but no joy.

[BigDavy]

If you need to move some part of your body to keep time maybe you should consider taking up an instrument more suited to your talents,like the bodhran.

RORY

I did.


David

[MTGuru]

Does anyone know the name of the second hornpipe David Power plays in that clip linked to a few posts back? Tried running it through tunepal but no joy.

I believe it's a setting of The Blackbird: https://thesession.org/tunes/4101

[myles]

Does anyone know the name of the second hornpipe David Power plays in that clip linked to a few posts back? Tried running it through tunepal but no joy.

I believe it's a setting of The Blackbird: https://thesession.org/tunes/4101

Yes that looks like it. Cheers, I did not know that one at all - it seems to bear only the slightest relationship to the 'other' Blackbird.

[An Draighean]

Does anyone know the name of the second hornpipe David Power plays in that clip linked to a few posts back? Tried running it through tunepal but no joy.

I believe it's a setting of The Blackbird: https://thesession.org/tunes/4101

Yes that looks like it. Cheers, I did not know that one at all - it seems to bear only the slightest relationship to the 'other' Blackbird.

There are a half-dozen or more Blackbird settings that I have come across so far. It's a fairly old tune I believe; appearing in printed collections at least as early as 1795.