- 13 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes.
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Continue your learning journey with the flute with this powerful Foundations course for those who already know how to play and/or have completed the Flute Basics course.
By the end of this course, you will have a repertoire of thirteen Irish tunes that sit very well on the flute, and a firm foundation in ornamentation, tone, intonation and breath. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.
Course Structure
This course is aimed at those who already know how to play the flute but who want to improve on the basic foundations of their playing. These foundations include ornamentation, tone, intonation and breath. Tunes taught are picked from the repertoire of common session tunes enabling you to go to a local session and join in with confidence knowing that you will have tunes in common with other musicians. Each lesson will focus on a specific element of flute playing (see list below) and appropriate exercises will be given. The specific technique taught each week will then be applied to the week’s tune.
The traditional Irish tunes and corresponding techniques taught are:
The Fisherman’s Slip Jig (Ornamentation – The Cut)
Rolling In The Ryegrass (Ornamentation – The Cut)
Pigtown (Exercises for Tone and Breathing)
Connacht Man’s Rambles (Ornamentation: The Tap)
The Idle Road (Ornamentation: Taps, C♮. Tone: Strengthening of the low D)
Fig For A Kiss (Exercises to strengthen Tone and Embouchure)
The Coach Trip To Sligo (Ornamentation: Roll on a G)
Rolling In The Ryegrass (Ornamentation – The Cut)
Pigtown (Exercises for Tone and Breathing)
Connacht Man’s Rambles (Ornamentation: The Tap)
The Idle Road (Ornamentation: Taps, C♮. Tone: Strengthening of the low D)
Fig For A Kiss (Exercises to strengthen Tone and Embouchure)
The Coach Trip To Sligo (Ornamentation: Roll on a G)
The Mourne Mountains (How to Warm Up Before Playing)
The Rolling Wave (Ornamentation: The Roll)
The Pride Of Petravore (Ornamentation: Slides)
Off To California (Melodic Variation)
The Swallow’s Tail (Melodic Variation)
The Lass Of Ballintra (Ornamentation: The Roll on G and A)
Sample Sheet Music
Download The Fisherman’s Slip Jig ABC Sheet Music.
Download The Fisherman’s Slip Jig Standard Notation Sheet Music.
Sample mp3 of The Fisherman’s Slip Jig
Your Tutor
Kirsten Allstaff, co-founder of OAIM, is an acclaimed flute and tin whistle player that has played throughout Ireland, Europe, North America and Asia with various Irish dance shows and groups. She has a First-Class Honours Master’s Degree in Traditional Irish Music Performance from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She previously tutored flute and whistle at The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance where she was involved in early online lecturing initiatives. Read more.Detailed questions and discussion on the course can be found in the Community Forum, available to paying members only.
