Hey everyone!
I just wanted to share this clip with you all about my upcoming Masterclass at Shaw Percussion!
Here is a small demonstration of the ideas and techniques that I've developed and teach on the bodhrán. If this interests you, come check out my Masterclass on the 27th either online or in-person!
And if bodhrán isn't your thing, there's going to be a concert with my new quartet featuring the amazing Peter Klaassen on upright bass, the incredible Sam Clark on violin, and the phenomenal Glam Season on guitar!
I'm so happy to have the opportunity to work with these wonderful people, and I can't wait to share all of the music we've prepared for you!
The whole thing will be live-streamed by the wonderful Noah Sullivan, and my dear father, Steafan Hannigan (who is a world-renowned bodhrán player and author of the "The Bodhrán Book", so I of course will not be nervous at all lol).
Can't wait to hear from you all!
I have little space for a drum kit, so I got a cajón with a foot beater, a bodhrán, a hi-hat, a foot tambourine, and a foot shaker. You can switch out the tambourine and shaker, and if you apply the force to your heel and not the ball, it won't sound, so you can use the cajón without sounding what's strapped to your foot. It's a stripped down kit that occupies the floor space of two mes.
I'm a keyboardist though, and I don't care to play my weird style in a band, especially since I don't do it particularly well. That means I have to recruit someone else for a band. So: should I look for drummers and gift them a bodhrán, or should I look for Irish folk percussionists and convince them to add some foot percussion? Yeah, there's overlap between the two groups, but how should I ask the question?
What would you do if someone asked you to do this? Look at him like he's crazy or what?
I recently was exposed to Máirtín de Cógáin’s rendition of Óró sé do bheatha bhaile wherein he performed it with just his voice and his bodhrán which I found hauntingly beautiful.
https://youtu.be/pAb6yzq7xMc
I was curious if there are any other recordings of Irish Traditional music in a style similar to this, stripped to just vocals and percussion.
Go raibh maith agat!
Hello everyone,
Can anyone tell me where I can order one of those beaters with the woollen ends? I love the sound they make.
Thanks in advance!
Hi, I purchased a bodhrán a few weeks ago and am wondering what the best practice strategies are that others have used? How many patterns should I practice at a time? Should I only move onto new patterns when I have the current ones I am practicing down solid? Any tips and tricks are appreciated!
Hello Everyone,
Long story short, myself and a group of other passionate Jazz fans have set up an easy going, welcoming online community all based around encouraging each other to explore the music on instruments that aren't often associated with the genre.
The goal is to bring something new to the music by bringing new musicians to it as a priority and I'm sure that one way of doing so is by prioritising instruments that simply don't usually receive an invite.
I would love to invite the bodhrán to the party given that I see absolutely no good reason that it couldn't replace the drum kit given the Irish drum's ability to drive, bounce and embellish the underlying rhythm so well. I'd already made a note to reach out to this sub and then I stumbled across this unbelievable clip of John Joe Kelly taking a bodhrán solo which had me almost jumping out of my seat this morning so I couldn't put it off any longer!
The way we are currently working is all through a free Dropbox setup where everyone has access to a first 'Resources' folder which is complete with tunes, some notes about improvisation and backing tracks made for this exact purpose. Everyone is also granted access to a second folder we call 'Achievements' which is an open space where anyone can drop and drag a roughly recorded audio or video file of how their experiment is going, a milestone in their attempts to solo or accompany or what have you.
Everyone works at their own pace in a self-guided study kind of approach with no deadlines and there is no pressure to actually post in the 'Achievements' folder if that makes you uncomfortable. You would be welcome to just be working in private without sharing with us. Every single person involved is someone who plays an instrument that is seldom heard in Jazz including instruments from the classical world, from electronic music, spoken word and we have all ability ranges from absolute beginners to professional players who are using this as an excuse to explore a new instrument.
I believe Jazz's tradition of having a common material that everyone interprets openly at sessions with strangers is really akin to the spirit of Folk so and I think that that spirit of exploration and community can only benefit by reaching out to musicians from as broad a background as possible. Given Bodhrán doesn't need to worry about pitch in the same way as a piano or saxophone I think there could be all kinds of room for a
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I should really know this by now, but anyway. From what I've seen, some people take turns, some people just kind of work out rhythms between themselves, and some people just kind of fuck it up and play over each other.
Is there a general rule of thumb or does it just depend on the other players?
