Courses Offered
Concertina Foundations: Course Synopsis
Concertina Foundations
Concertina foundations is a course aimed at the player who already knows how to play the concertina but who wants to learn or improve on the basic foundations of concertina playing. These foundations include the use of alternate fingering patterns, basic grace-notes, an introduction to chords, double noting and variation.
Most of the tunes taught in the course are picked from the repertoire of common session tunes enabling the learning concertina player to go to local music sessions and join in with confidence knowing that he/she will have tunes in common with other musicians.
Each lesson will feature a new tune. After teaching the melody phrase by phrase, Ernestine demonstrates how and where to incorporate ornamentation and various other techniques.
Is this course aimed at a suitable level for me?
The course is aimed at players who are starting on the concertina.
Free sample lessons
Take a free sample lesson for this course. In order to avail of the free lesson, you must first become a member of OAIM in order to gain access. Membership is free.
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Tutor: Ernestine Healy
Ernestine hails from County Mayo. A qualified secondary school teacher, she has also worked as a lecturer in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, in the University of Limerick. Having occupied the position of Acting Course Director on the Graduate Diploma in Music Education postgrad programme during 2008/09, she then went onto lecture on the BA in Irish Music and Dance undergraduate programme in 2009. Ernestine has also worked as a tutor in the Music Department in University College Cork. Ernestine is an internationally recognized concertina player, as well as a tutor and producer on the Irish musical scene. She has been engaged for events such as the Milwaukee Irish Music Festival, workshops in France, Scoil Eigse, as part of the All Ireland Fleadh, Eigse Mrs.Crotty, in Kilrush, Co Clare, Corofin Traditional Festival...
Tunes featured in the class:
- Road to Prizon
- The Lilting Banshee
- The Ship in Full Sail
- Maids of Glenroe
- The Five Mile Chase
- The Upside Down Page