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How to Practice On & Off Beat Rolls for Irish Flute Playing

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Summary: Learn how to use a metronome to practice on and off beat rolls in Irish flute playing with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip.

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David Cantieni Primarily playing Irish style wooden flute, but also known for his performances on the Breton bombard, oboe, sax, and whistle he has been making people dance ... read more

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How to Practice On & Off Beat Rolls for Irish Flute Playing

Hi I'm David Cantieni on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to be sharing with you some useful techniques for practicing the Irish style flute. Another metronome exercise that you may want one to do deals with arms beats and arms of beats. In the context of some of these rolls I'm going to go back to my trusting metronome here and we would start it up and what I want you to notice is that this is going to be playing the on and off beats. So it would be on, off, on, off. Something like that you notice then so that I'm going I turn this off and slow it down just a little bit for your benefit. The first flick so I start on the note below so I would be going on the beat would be D then the next note would be if you are thinking sixteenths; sixteenths if you want to have vocalization for that it would be one A and uh so it would be one A and uh, one A and uh, one A and uh; so the second note would be E then so that is one A then “and” is the first flick and the “uh” is the tip or slap. So it would be one A and uh; see how that works. Now perhaps you would like to here that in the context of a tune. Uh is a nice one and G.

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