Do you play a trad instrument?

gerbox

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/keyboards/2838789

WindSock

I have a few tin whistles lying around here. I only ever learned in school when I was around 6, even then I think it was just Puff the Magic Dragon
Anyone have any songs they recommend to play to start learning again?

brummytom

Something like the Dawning of the Day, probably? Nice and easy, and a very well known tune.

These videos are quite good/easy tutorials, this one's of that tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNRTBUsPtec

WindSock

Cool, I was messing around on it last week on my own and tried to toot out something that sounded like Raglan Road in my head. This vid is good for explaining though and probably closer to what I was actually playing :pac:

Keithb123

Hi folks,

Im looking to put together a trad band, very casual, couple of sessions a week with a view towards gigging in the future. Looking for enthusiastic musicians in Dublin area. As you'll see this is my first ever post so forgive me if I breach boards etiquette!

laoch na mona

trying to learn soon irish tunes on guitar also play bodhran a bit

piperroche

I play uilleann pipes, scottish bagpipes, whistles and now im learning the fiddle

Roguery

Keithb123 wrote: »

Hi folks,

Im looking to put together a trad band, very casual, couple of sessions a week with a view towards gigging in the future. Looking for enthusiastic musicians in Dublin area. As you'll see this is my first ever post so forgive me if I breach boards etiquette!

Did that ever take off?

walnut grove

I'm a bagpiper too, I prefer the sing song tunes though, so on a level of 1-20, 1 being the best I'd class myself at 19 lol

irishjay

im in dublin and i want an open jam session in the pub i run.
sunday afternons or wednsday evenings . if anyone has any input . drop me a line .. cheers i really want to get the old days back like as in donahoes of baggot st etc. whistle banjo etc squueze bx

Beauchamps Bagenal

I've recently taken up the tenor banjo. It's coming to me easy enough, because I've been playing guitar since I'm a kid, but I'm definitely not up to session standard yet! I've been learning some good tunes from '50 solos for Irish tenor banjo', but have really got to improve my speed of playing..

discodowney

I play the whistle and banjo. Started learnign the whistle when i was 5, moved on to the banjo. stopped playin for bout 8 years but started again last year. Want to start sessioning, moved to a new place beside the cobblestone in Smithfield so hope i follow through on it. I cant remember most the songs i knew which is killing me. I used to know a ridiculous number.

jeanadamz

I really wish I had joined some musical orgs during my college days, just as now I wanted to learn guitar and other stringed instrument. Hope to have it achieved this year or by the next year.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

I play button accordion and I came third in the all ireland fleadh this year!

Steve_o

I play the Mandolin & Bouzouki.

Pensivepuca

Just taken up the penny whistle, I can play the recorder but everyone can play that . I hope I can be half decent within a year or so of practice.

Mr Rhode Island Red

I play the Piano Accordion (although it is looked down on by people who don't deem it "Traditionally Irish":rolleyes:) and the tin whistle. I am also a rather inexperienced Bodhrán player

I also play piano(does that count?)

TacAide

I play the Bodhran, tin whistle (key of D) and the banjo, and just bought a fiddle, I have been playing for the last 12 to 14 months.

banjobongo

as you might guess from my boardsie name, I play the banjo!

Blade

banjobongo wrote: »

as you might guess from my boardsie name, I play the banjo!

No way, I always thought you played the Bongos!

Play whistles myself, all types from lows to altos.

Ciaran180

Started playing the tenor banjo about 2 months ago. Coming along good

NBTD

Have just reacquainted myself with the tin whistle after about 20 years!

Picked it up again a couple of weeks ago and can play the old favourites - Maggie in the Woods, Egan's polka (had to google the names of both of these as I knew them as GDGABDE and FABA!!)

Looking at the helpful links thread, there seem to be a multitude of sites out there that provide notes etc, but how do you know what to play?

I only know these as I learned them in National School

I have a D whistle btw

tarbolton

Hi NBTD

Stick to the big tunes! The repertoire most commonly played in sessions. We (i.e. Ceoltóirí Chluain Tarbh) run a class/slow session for adult learners on Dublin's Northside. We put together a list of 10 essential sets as a guidance in builing up repertoire. You could do worse than start with these:

Reels
The new copperplate
The old Copperplate
The Cameronian

Cooley’s
The wise maid

The silver spear
Father Kelly’s
Miss Monaghan

The maid behind the bar
The Kilmaley
The green mountain

The Tarbolton
The Longford collector
The sailor’s bonnet

Jigs
The geese on the bog
The Connaught man’s rambles
Out in the ocean

The Battering Ram
The Blarney Pilgrim

The pipe on the Hob #1
The pipe on the hob #2

Hornpipes
Off to California
The Liverpool hornpipe
Murphy’s hornpipe

Polkas
The Ballydesmond #2
The Ballydesmond #1

endacl

I don't play one of these, but I want to!

NBTD

tarbolton wrote: »

Hi NBTD

Stick to the big tunes! The repertoire most commonly played in sessions. We (i.e. Ceoltóirí Chluain Tarbh) run a class/slow session for adult learners on Dublin's Northside. We put together a list of 10 essential sets as a guidance in builing up repertoire. You could do worse than start with these:

Reels
The new copperplate
The old Copperplate
The Cameronian

Cooley’s
The wise maid

The silver spear
Father Kelly’s
Miss Monaghan

The maid behind the bar
The Kilmaley
The green mountain

The Tarbolton
The Longford collector
The sailor’s bonnet

Jigs
The geese on the bog
The Connaught man’s rambles
Out in the ocean

The Battering Ram
The Blarney Pilgrim

The pipe on the Hob #1
The pipe on the hob #2

Hornpipes
Off to California
The Liverpool hornpipe
Murphy’s hornpipe

Polkas
The Ballydesmond #2
The Ballydesmond #1

Excellent, thanks for the help! Will download the notes for these and get cracking!

johnpratt

hi.....i play guitar/bass guitar looking to form a folk /ballad /trad band anyone interested....send me a pm...i will contact you guys...john

Chocoholic Anonymous

Whistle.

Rakish Paddy

Whistle is my main instrument. I have been playing a bit of flute for a while now but never dedicated as much time to it as the whistle but am slowly working on building up my tone/embouchure. I'm also learning to the play the uilleann pipes.

Speedwell

Hi, everyone. I'm an American permanently resident in Sligo with my Irish husband, and a classically trained pianist and choir member. My husband is not musical and I miss the piano I had to sell when I moved here. I have a good solid learner's bodhrán and a pleasant low D whistle and I'd like to learn both, along with the traditional music. No, I have no Irish ancestry or background. Yes, I love music and I'm longing to play in session when I'm far enough along. If you're a teacher in the area or you know one, would you please look at my post in the teachers' thread? Thanks

Yffisch

I play mainly the button accordion and a couple of different flutes Swedish music is my main focus!

hakunapesa

Hi

I play Uilleann Pipes and Tenor Banjo. I'm Ballinasloe, is there anyone near by who would be interested in learning tunes together or just playing?

Speedwell

Well, I am now a bodhrán player. I went to Junior Davey's excellent music school this week at the Coleman center in Gurteen, and I have a fine solid silver-gray bodhran newly made in Ben March's bodhrán-making class. Yes, I am a beginner. No, I won't throw myself at your session until I am sure I can contribute something, but as a former pianist and chorister I at least have a great understanding of rhythm. Off now to practice my hour a day.

Some of the teachers there also told me I was a good enough whistler (meaning the basic pucker-your-lips-and-blow, not tin whistle) to participate in sessions, which was not something I expected at all, but am happy to try. As for the low whistle, I am not sure my hands are literally large enough to play it, but I'd like someone to tell me differently.

Rakish Paddy

Speedwell wrote: »

Well, I am now a bodhrán player. I went to Junior Davey's excellent music school this week at the Coleman center in Gurteen, and I have a fine solid silver-gray bodhran newly made in Ben March's bodhrán-making class. Yes, I am a beginner. No, I won't throw myself at your session until I am sure I can contribute something, but as a former pianist and chorister I at least have a great understanding of rhythm. Off now to practice my hour a day.

Some of the teachers there also told me I was a good enough whistler (meaning the basic pucker-your-lips-and-blow, not tin whistle) to participate in sessions, which was not something I expected at all, but am happy to try. As for the low whistle, I am not sure my hands are literally large enough to play it, but I'd like someone to tell me differently.

Welcome to what is a wonderful world and potentially an obsession that can take over your life :-D

Unless you have really really small hands I'd be surprised if they are physically too small to play a low whistle (I have seen children playing them). If you just can't make the stretch on a low D, or some of the holes are too big for your finger to cover, you could try a low F whistle. They're not much use for playing in sessions, but they sound lovely and the finger stretch is much less than on a low D. And of course, there's always the humble ordinary tin whistle - nothing wrong with them!

CianW5

I play Concertina, Piano and Bodhrán. Piano is my favourite and for anyone starting an instrument I would recommend starting the Piano first.

CoisFharraige

Piano, fiddle, guitar.

Piano my favourite, followed by fiddle. Love the versatility of the piano, can do any genre.

McMurphy

Haven't played for a while now, but lack of leisure activities since mid march at the weekends has definitely rekindled my interest, and so I've recently taken out the whistles I own and have started to mess around with them again.

I also play flute, and am considering getting myself new Uilleann Pipes in the near future.

Derwent

Just picked up a mandolin last week and taken some online classes via online academy of irish music to get started. So far I've learned the Kerry Polka, The Foggy Dew, Rocky Road to Dublin and am fiddling about with the Creggan White Hare. It's enormous fun!

Brackwom

I play the flute.

zouk2003

Bouzouki player here. If any flute/whistle/box players are into getting a duo or trio band together, then giz a message. Dublin area

Agettle

most of all i like to play the guitar

Tradconnect

I'm a fiddle player of intermediate/advanced level and am looking for any other fiddlers out there in South Dublin area interested in getting together with myself and a few others.