Creating Rhythm Using Throat Articulation and Glottal Stops

IRISH FLUTE TECHNIQUE: ADVANCED ARTICULATION

Irish Flute Technique is aimed at the more experienced player as it includes advanced ornamentation and articulation skills. Although the techniques taught in this course are challenging technically, many of the tunes taught are also suitable for the less advanced player. A keyed flute (or a keyless flute player with half-holing ability) is required for a few of the tunes taught in the keys of F major and D minor.

By the end of this course, you will have a wealth of technical tips and tricks to use with your current repertoire, as well as thirteen new, quirky flute tunes. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.

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Your Tutor

Kevin Crawford
Born in Birmingham, England to parents from Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, Kevin Crawford's early life was sound-tracked by the resonance of the lively traditional music scene in the midlands city.Moving to Co. Clare in 1989, he soon became a pivotal member of the effervescent session trail in the Banner county (Co Clare) before enhancing his burgeoning reputation in the group Grianán and the trio Raise the Rafters. He then propelled himself to international recognition with Moving Cloud, with whom he recorded Moving Cloud in 1995 and Foxglove in 1998. Kevin joined Lúnasa in January 1997 for a tour of Australia…
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Course Structure

Irish Flute Technique expertly guides you through a myriad of cranns, rolls, triplets, back-stitch triplets, key-work and cuts. One of the main themes of this course is articulation; the tutor constantly refers to throat articulation as a means of accentuating the rhythm of the tunes and demonstrates again and again how to use glottal-stops to attack the notes for percussive effect.

The traditional Irish tunes and corresponding techniques taught are:

  • The Quaker’s Wife (Creating Rhythm Using Throat Articulation)
  • John McKenna’s Jig (Creating Rhythm Using Throat Articulation)
  • The Red Haired Girl (Key Work and Various Ornamentation)
  • Joy Of My Life (Challenging Keys: F Major)
  • The Drunken Landlady (The Long Roll)
  • In The Hen House (The Back Stitch, Triplets and Crans)
  • Andy McGann’s (Challenging Keys: D minor)
  • The Drogheda Reel (Ornamentation: Triplets and Rolls)
  • Cormac O’Looney’s (Tongue Articulation)
  • Farewell To Phillip Lane (Challenging Keys: F Major)
  • The Standing Abbey (Embouchure and Cranns)
  • The High Hill Of Tara (Vibrato and Slides)
  • The Rising Sun (Cranns)
The Quaker’s Wife
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Irish Flute Technique Lessons

1
Advanced
The Quaker’s Wife

Creating Rhythm Using Throat Articulation

2
Advanced
John McKenna’s Jig

The Glottal Stop

3
Advanced
The Red Haired Girl

Key Work and Various Ornamentation

4
Advanced
Joy of My Life

Challenging Keys: F Major / Key Work!

5
Advanced
The Drunken Landlady

Rhythmic playing and embellishments

6
Advanced
In the Hen House

Ornamentation: The Back Stitch, Triplets and Cranns

7
Advanced
Andy McGann’s

Challenging Keys: D minor / Key Work

8
Advanced
The Drogheda Reel

Ornamentation: Triplets and Rolls

9
Advanced
Cormac O’Looney’s

Tongue Articulation

10
Advanced
Farewell to Phillip Lane

Challenging Keys: F Major / Key Work

11
Advanced
The Standing Abbey

Embouchure and Cranns

12
Advanced
The High Hill of Tara

The use of Vibrato and Slides in Slow Tunes

13
Advanced
The Rising Sun

Ornamentation: Cranns

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