Treeshark's very cool animated fluting footstompin'stickman
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cool!
Hi,
I join in cause I thaught the same about the avatar some days ago. It's very nice! How did you draw it?
brotherwind
I join in cause I thaught the same about the avatar some days ago. It's very nice! How did you draw it?
brotherwind
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It's a nice looking gif
I have wondered, however, when I see videoclips of people playing irish flute there's often very little movement - even compared to classical players (I'm not talking about stomping of feet but the torso and up ). Do you agree and if so - why do you think that is the case?
Have a nice weekend all!
Brian
I have wondered, however, when I see videoclips of people playing irish flute there's often very little movement - even compared to classical players (I'm not talking about stomping of feet but the torso and up ). Do you agree and if so - why do you think that is the case?
Have a nice weekend all!
Brian
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It actually reminds me a little of a very funny animated gif that a friend sent me a few years ago, entitled "Why Stick People Went Extinct." It shows a very obviously male stick person going at it with a female stick person, but based on your knowledge of what happens when you rub two sticks together you can figure out what happens next...
My flute teacher told me to hold still while I was playing. I said, "But I feel the music so much!" He said, "Put that into the music!" The extra movement is indeed a draw off of that focused air stream and embouchure energy.treeshark wrote:Yes waving the body about doesn't help with keeping that air jet aimed!
Very nice avatar.
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Pivot Stick Figure Animator will let you make small animated gifs, and it's free. But nowhere near as cool as TreeFluteStickMan™, a product of FluteBeardCo Inc.
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If you're playing Irish traditional music (and I do realize that not everyone here is), the accepted form of movement while playing is the foot tap. If the player is really feeling the music, the movement can extend to other regions of the body and still be totally acceptable but only on the condition that the movement originated with the foot tap and can be traced directly back to it. Anything else will brand you as a poseur of the highest order. This is why you never see emotive movement by players of slow airs. There's no regular meter to them, so no foot tap can ever start. And without the foot tap, no other movement in response to the music is allowed. All emotion from the air must come solely by way of the notes being played.cskinner wrote:My flute teacher told me to hold still while I was playing. I said, "But I feel the music so much!" He said, "Put that into the music!" The extra movement is indeed a draw off of that focused air stream and embouchure energy.treeshark wrote:Yes waving the body about doesn't help with keeping that air jet aimed!
Other traditions related to ITM take this a step further and actually require a stylized toe-tap. French Canadians are famous for this. Many years ago I was at the Augusta Irish Week and Lisa Ornstein was there to teach French Canadian fiddle. One of her students told me that before she taught them the first thing about fiddle playing she spent a good bit of time teaching them the foot-tapping.
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Absolutely superb.
To think that a poster here could be so computer literate.
We are honoured.
Think of the hours of sweat spent drawing and the heartache when it did not work.
Think of his stay-ability in always coming back and eventually conquering the system.
Think of the mental strain, think of the mental strain involved in writing this rubbish.
Still, it is a good avatar and no one will suspect we are being paid in an attempt to make this a sticky.
To think that a poster here could be so computer literate.
We are honoured.
Think of the hours of sweat spent drawing and the heartache when it did not work.
Think of his stay-ability in always coming back and eventually conquering the system.
Think of the mental strain, think of the mental strain involved in writing this rubbish.
Still, it is a good avatar and no one will suspect we are being paid in an attempt to make this a sticky.
Played banjo as it only had five strings, so how the hell am I going to cope with six holes?
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Yes, here it is BTW:bradhurley wrote:It actually reminds me a little of a very funny animated gif that a friend sent me a few years ago, entitled "Why Stick People Went Extinct." It shows a very obviously male stick person going at it with a female stick person, but based on your knowledge of what happens when you rub two sticks together you can figure out what happens next...
http://www.msu.edu/~longjean/