- 13 lessons teaching how to play 10 popular Irish tunes.
- Progress at your own pace, pause & repeat videos.
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- PDF sheet music & mp3’s to download & keep for each tune.
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- Library of over 150 popular Irish tunes to practice along with.
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- Community Forum of students and teachers, all friends with a love of Irish music.
Expert Irish Flute Technique is aimed at the more advanced flute player who would like to specifically target and develop technique in the context of the ten tunes taught.
By the end of this course, you will have a wealth of advanced technical tips plus exercises to hone your ornamentation styles. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.
Course Structure
Expert Irish Flute Technique addresses ornamentation, both learning more complex forms and attempting a greater density of ornamental practice. Throughout the course you are also introduced to a number of different forms of articulation and techniques of emphasis and duration, as well as strategies for variation and approaches to phrasing. It includes exercises to engage and develop tone, dexterity and stamina, as well as key work. The styles of many of the great flute players from the Irish tradition are discussed and referred to throughout the course.
The traditional Irish tunes and corresponding techniques taught are:
Willie Coleman’s Jig (Ornamentation: Bounces, Cuts, Taps, Cranns, Short Rolls)
Johnny’s Wedding (Intonation, Variation, Key work)
Andy Jarvis’ (Challenging Keys, Key work)
Charlie O’Neill’s (Throat and Tongue Articulation)
Charlie O’Neill’s #2 (Throat and Tongue Articulation, Embouchure)
The Green Mountain (Phrasing, Breathing and Variation)
Frank Delaney’s (Variation and Improvisation)
Johnny’s Wedding (Intonation, Variation, Key work)
Andy Jarvis’ (Challenging Keys, Key work)
Charlie O’Neill’s (Throat and Tongue Articulation)
Charlie O’Neill’s #2 (Throat and Tongue Articulation, Embouchure)
The Green Mountain (Phrasing, Breathing and Variation)
Frank Delaney’s (Variation and Improvisation)
Gan Ainm Reel (Challenging Keys: G Minor, Key Work)
Gan Ainm Reel #2 (Challenging Keys: G Minor, Key Work)
The Boyne Hunt (Challenging Keys: E Major, Key Work)
An Paistin Fionn (Ornamentation for Airs, Tone, Vibrato)
Young Men In Their Bloom (Third Octave Playing)
Exercises (for the betterment of Tone, Ornamentation and Articulation)
Sample Sheet Music
Download Willie Coleman’s Jig Standard Notation Sheet Music.
Sample mp3 of Willie Coleman’s Jig
Your Tutor
Dr Niall Keegan was born in the south east of England and began playing Irish traditional flute at an early age amongst the community of first and second generation musicians in and around London. He 1990 studied under Dr. Mícheál Ó’ Súilleabháin for a Masters degree. He is course director of the new Traditional Irish Music performance masters at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, and also teaches on the ethno-musicology program there. He is also director of the BA Irish Traditional Music and Dance Studies. He has lectured and taught instrumental classes at Universities all over Ireland and Britain. He has performed extensively throughout Ireland and abroad, most notably the Royal Albert Hall, The National Concert Hall in Dublin, The Waterfront Hall in Belfast and the Galway Arts Centre. Read more.
Detailed questions and discussion on the course can be found in the Community Forum, available to paying members only.
