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I used to play this as a child!

Hey mate I’m 13 years of age and you’ve really inspired me to get into the bodhrán my family was so happy when I started working with Irish music because my dad is an Irish dance teacher and my mother was a singer in Celtic women so it’s really special to our family . Cheers mate I love your content

The bodhran is such a versatile instrument! Withs its humble origins and the sad story of its peoples it carries the heartbeat of a thousand generations. Little by little it is making its way into the percussion of the world and it will have a bigger impact thanks to people like Ruari who are becoming apostles of the beat of the ages.

How fun! Great job folks!

summon that Shai-Hulud! Gorgeous! ❤️

Can u Talk slower

i never felt so connected to a video.....thank you

always have a hard time distinguishing between 6/8 , 3/4 and so many others i can't name

I have seen the bodhran series you have made and the drmmuers for Iran. Beautiful intimate approach.

Amazing...very soothing

These are just amazing !! Math Fhein bho Alba

For a videogame too! ;D

the sweater really makes the whole video

Happy to see this video 🪷🫶🏻

Hi, this is great content, do you have a list of words that you use to represent different divisions in English? That would be quite helpful actually.

great video!!!

Just seen The Repair Shop on which a Bodhran was repaired, I remembered I bought one in Mayo 20 years ago, got it out of the loft and logged onto Ruari’s UA-cam and started practising - great videos and so glad I didn’t throw it away ❤

Very simple

Ah, Ruairi, that was FUN! I'm loving this 6/8 pattern with the crack at the top. Thank you so much for sharing your skills so generously.

I work as a kindergarten teacher in Korea, and I just got a triangle from the toy department of the local supermarket tonight, as as "Pay attention to the teacher!" kind of device. Having watched a video of triangle technique on YT just a few weeks ago though, I got curious, and came back to the subject. Living in Asia, what is the most obvious thing one might use as a striker? The striker that came with the cheap455 toy i bought was really uncomfortable to hold, so I went with what I had lying around the house - Chopsticks. I'm currently experimenting with different chopsticks - Really light disposable wooden ones from takeout restaurants, slightly more sturdy bamboo ones that are meant to be reusable in the home, light aluminium ones, or slightly heavier steel ones. The difference between the reusable bamboo type and the light aluminium type is already quite noticeable - There is a massive difference in the strength of the strike, the reverberation, the resonance, and the volume. (Like an ADSR envelope basically.) The metal chopsticks give a much quicker attack and higher resonance, while the wooden ones have a slower and more gentle attack, with a lower resonance. They have a delicacy about them that the metal ones don't, while the metal ones can give a rich and clean tone that the wooden ones just don't. If you try hitting the wooden ones as hard to get the same volume as the metal ones, you just get a bad sound. Different materials give different responses. I also looked at the techniques shown by YT creators for physically holding the striker in the hand, and they didn't feel physically comfortable to me. So, I just held the chopstick the way I would hold it while eating, and it felt much more natural. Maybe that's just a side-effect of living in Asia, but it works for me. I hold the triangle striker like I hold the chopstick to eat rice. I've only had this instrument for a few hours now, but I'm having a lot of fun with it already. Last time I played it was in elementary school, about 40 years ago. I also use a Eurorack Modular synth called "Elements" by Mutable Instruments which works on the basis of physical instruments. It replicates the strength of the strike (how hard you hit it) combined with the position of the striker across the membrane (whether you hit towards the closed or opened end of the triangle, or the centre of the drum vs the outer edge) plus some woodwind options. Triangles and bells are among its primary voices, so actually playing with a real triangle will be a big help in understanding how to better use that synth to create these kinds of sounds. Good times ahead, plus I get to make a big noise in the classroom to get my own back against my incredibly noisy students.

Thank you so much this is so simplified

Hello from Spain, where to buy tips and how to choose. Thank you

WOW 🎉

Wow! That helped me so much!!!!

Thank you very much my brother ! Can you explain key signature and how it is use in scale

This is very clear. Thank you!

This was wonderful and very helpful. I am a beginner percussionist. Thank you 😊

Lovely collection in the back, can you make a video where you show all of your bodhráns and talk about them (brands, skins, diameters and so on)? Thanks, keep up the good stuff!

This is beautiful

The drum sounds amazing, I know the firm has (at least the online shop) closed down, but does anybody know where could could I get a similar sounding bodhrán? I love the bass on this drum? I would love to go on a bodhrán seeking adventure in bodhrán, but I am from Czech Republic and I don't have such posibilities currently :)

Your lesson is intensively good Thank you

7/8.....and im guessing 130 bpm?

I have McNeela Wave bodhrán and it sounds lovely, but can I ask what bodhrán is this? I like the guiro sound possibilities And feel to this one. I am going to buy another bodhrán (probably 14" for more melodic playing) in the summer :)

HI. Really enjoying your tutorials. Could I ask that you play an example of the "hemiola" to music. I can follow you on both slow and fast examples but for the life of me I can't apply it music. It's driving me banannas.

Oh that white horse - "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." Rev 19:14

Very well done.

Compliments. Che frammento di Napoletanità antica.

nice 7/8- lovely rolls!

that shirt looks great on you, thanks for the lesson

Fantastic! When I first started learning to belly dance it was so hard because none of my teachers ever taught or even referred to the rhythm, let alone the beat. It's ironic because belly dance is all about "being" the music with your body. When I teach, I always begin with the beat. Thank you for your inspiring lessons. New sub! 💕

Thank you very much for this important and fascinating document - music will heal the world and make peace in hearts

Thanks

Or 1/1

28/8;)

What a great lesson! You are so patient, and you explain everything with precision. Use of metronome, building up speed, and demonstrating was wonderful. I was a band and choir director for 35 years, but never learned specific folk instruments in college. Now that I am only a church choir director, some of our hymns have a CELTIC Feel, and I want to learn how to embrace and add that cultural sound to our music too. Lesson 1 was awesome. Looking forward to learning more!!! Thank you!! 😀

Thank you

Great teaching

Thank you so much sir, God bless you so much

This is the first time in an entire lifetime of being unable to hear a beat that a lesson hasn't felt like it's skipping the first five steps. Usually the advice is 'just clap along' with no advice on what to do if you can't do that. But this is broken down so much more that even just following along once, I can start to see where everything falls apart for me, and it's not right at the first hurdle! Which means maybe I can improve! Thank you so much