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A place to talk about and share information about Irish music, sessions, concerts, performers, and what have you.

Website: http://www.irishphiladelphia.com/music
Members: 24
Created By: Jeff Meade
Latest Activity: May 6

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A Book For The Fiddlers (and others, too)

http://www.hearts-content.net/JamesMorrisonBook.ht so "The Professor", the great James Morrison played and taught from "the dots". Yeah; what of it. Check out this cool new tome. Continue

Started by Frank Dalton May 6

Teaching the music

When I teach the music I use the written tune and the tape recorder. I have a student from the school of dots and I encourage her to listen more although we use sheet music because she is most fami... Continue

Started by John Brennan Apr 28

Explaining to a 'reader' about learning by ear VS learning from notation
17 Replies

Yo, Musicianers ... I’ve struggled with this more than once: How do you explain to a classically trained musician that there are far better ways to get a feel for and eventually learn to play trad... Continue

Started by Frank Dalton. Last reply by Darin Kelly Apr 23.