Celtic & Scandinavian Music

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“come for the celtic, stay for the scandi!”

Wednesdays in DECEMBER:
Nov 30, Dec 7, 14, 21

LIVE via Zoom, 4p-5:30p ET (New York City)

Schedule: Each daily session will feature 60 minutes of guided practice, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A and follow up.

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Week 1: melody playing, CELTIC

Warm up:

B natural min scale 2 octaves jig rhythm. 1 octave rolls jig rhythm

Playing diatonically across the neck (D maj 60 bpm 8ths with cross beat slurs)

Bowed triplet exercise w/ string crossings – reel, D maj - slurring out of triplet and not

Ornament exercise 1 octave scale A dorian - flick, warble, combo, waterfall, hammer-on, pull-off 

David glen’s:

Talk through fingering options for cellos, positions used, B part down

Bowing patterns: crossbeat slur with L hand articulation, hook, slur on strongbeat, separate…how much to dot

Try one long bow like pipes

Port an righ:

Play in both octaves

Add key slurs to correct to grid

Syncopated accents on high climax notes of melody

Up da strouds:

Read bowing as is and explain choices

Shetland shuffle A and B

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WEEK 2: melody playing SCANDI

Strathspey:

Typical rhythm, cape breton vs slow country dance

Up driven bow, slurs to correct to grid, hook, cross beat swinging bow, slurs on beats, dotted vs straight 8ths

Practice playing rhythms as triplets

March: read as written, go for legato sound

Slip jig: same concepts as jig

Try one long bow for L hand ideas

SCANDI:

Polska: 16th

Slur two bow two

End phrases up bow
more lift, anticipate downbeats

Triplet:

Explore all bowing combos

Rorospols:

Down up down-up

Schottische:

How much swing?

Cajun feel

All single bows with occasional 3-note slur

Waltz:

Add slur on 2

Additional practice: Jonas tunes, bananas read printed bowing

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Week 3: rhythm patterns

with metronome!

Strathspey

Jig

Reel

16th polska

Play each melody on one note rhythm only first to hear accents

Chop vs shuffle

Leaving space

Experiment with different length of subdivisions

Use Motive, end phrases with variation



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Week 4: chords

Finish rhythm ideas for triplet polska, schottis and waltz

CHORDS:

Warm up: 

Intervals against a drone (3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths) –  A maj

Arpeggiate through diatonically occurring 7ths chords in D low to high

Our keys: A, Dm, Bm, D, A mixo, Am

Explore what different types of minor mean for chords available: natural (David glen’s - Bm), melodic (croughly - Dm), dorian (snickar Erik - Dm)

Arpeggiate through chord scales for each

16th note polska:

I, IV, V in A using double stops in first and second position on all strings - different register possibilities

Watch Adam video together? 1/4/5, add inversions, add substitutions (vi, IV)/ii/bVII, add pointing chords Vof/

When battle’s o’er - explore pizz different harmonic options singing melody and playing bass line

Play through all tunes with rhythm and chordal ideas IF TIME

supplementary materials and video recordings

Supplementary materials, as well as video recordings of each session will be added below when available.