Re: [scots-l] Mandolin Workshop
Philip Whittaker wrote: ...I wish I had managed to get to Nigel's mandolin workshop yesterday. However I was feeling ropey after an infection I've been fighting all week. So, Nigel, for the benefit of you and the participants, it's as well I did not make it to Edinburgh. How did it go...? It was fantastic - for me, anyway, but everyone who attended seemed to get a lot out of it and almost all of them said afterwards that what they wanted was More! So it looks like I'll be putting on these one-day workshops two or three times a year. We had twenty people there (I had originally put a limit of eighteen, but a couple extra managed to wriggle in) and several more were disappointed at not getting a place. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never seen so many mandolins together before (except in old photos of mandolin orchestras etc). I covered a lot over the six hours, from Warm-up Exercises, Scale Patterns, Internalising Music, Double-Stops, Decoration, Building Speed, and a lightening-fast whirl around Up the Neck. Plus a couple of sessions where I invited the participants to ask me questions; to my amazement I think I managed to answer most lines of questioning. At 4.00pm the other workshops from the day (button box (4), flute (4), cello (3)) joined us and we each played a piece. The mandolins played a slow air (The Yellow Haired Laddie) with all the decorations I'd explored and it sounded just brilliant. After much hand-shaking and gratitude I was alone, happy but exhausted. This is the first workshop I've ever done, and of course I had been nervous about whether I could deliver. The reaction from the participants more than reassured me, and boosted my confidence to a huge degree. Thanks for asking, Philip, and perhaps you and Ted could make the next one? -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Mandolin Workshop
That sounds great Nigel. What a sound that must have been. I hope to make one of the mandolin workshops. Please send details to the list. Philip W -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [scots-l] Mandolin Workshop
Sounds like more fun than what I was doing. Hopefully I'll manage the next one. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-scots- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nigel Gatherer Sent: 10 February 2002 14:22 To: Scots-L Posting Subject: Re: [scots-l] Mandolin Workshop Philip Whittaker wrote: ...I wish I had managed to get to Nigel's mandolin workshop yesterday. However I was feeling ropey after an infection I've been fighting all week. So, Nigel, for the benefit of you and the participants, it's as well I did not make it to Edinburgh. How did it go...? It was fantastic - for me, anyway, but everyone who attended seemed to get a lot out of it and almost all of them said afterwards that what they wanted was More! So it looks like I'll be putting on these one-day workshops two or three times a year. We had twenty people there (I had originally put a limit of eighteen, but a couple extra managed to wriggle in) and several more were disappointed at not getting a place. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never seen so many mandolins together before (except in old photos of mandolin orchestras etc). I covered a lot over the six hours, from Warm-up Exercises, Scale Patterns, Internalising Music, Double-Stops, Decoration, Building Speed, and a lightening-fast whirl around Up the Neck. Plus a couple of sessions where I invited the participants to ask me questions; to my amazement I think I managed to answer most lines of questioning. At 4.00pm the other workshops from the day (button box (4), flute (4), cello (3)) joined us and we each played a piece. The mandolins played a slow air (The Yellow Haired Laddie) with all the decorations I'd explored and it sounded just brilliant. After much hand-shaking and gratitude I was alone, happy but exhausted. This is the first workshop I've ever done, and of course I had been nervous about whether I could deliver. The reaction from the participants more than reassured me, and boosted my confidence to a huge degree. Thanks for asking, Philip, and perhaps you and Ted could make the next one? -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Mandolin Workshop
If I were coming, I'd ask for; - ornmentation of the pipe and the fiddle repertoire. - strathspeys I will have to decide at the very last moment. Philip -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Mandolin Workshop
Ted Hastings wrote: Unfortunately I'll be unable to attend as I already have other commitments for next Saturday. I'm sorry about that, Ted. I'm aware that you asked about it mid-December, but it's only in the past couple of weeks that I've managed to get the workshop into focus, and figure out exactly what I'm doing. However, a couple of interesting topics might be: How can Andy Irvine sing while playing something completely unrelated on the mandolin? Maybe it's because he's a Londoner? It's maybe a case of getting the motor going (i.e. right hand) and leaving it running while you think about chord shapes and singing and what the other guys in the band are doing, and wondering whether the promoter will cough up this time. Banjolins - should they be legalised? Obvious answer to that one: Are you completely mad? -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] MAndolin Workshop
Nigel, I read somewhere, maybe an Alp leaflet, that you were doing a madolin workshop some time in the spring, somewhere in Edinburgh, on a Sunday over an unspecified number of hours. I'm tempted. Can you fill in the details? Philip -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] MAndolin Workshop
Philip Whittaker wrote: Nigel, I read somewhere, maybe an Alp leaflet, that you were doing a madolin workshop some time in the spring, somewhere in Edinburgh, on a Sunday over an unspecified number of hours. I'm tempted. Can you fill in the details? No. Because I don't know what I'm doing at the workshop. I have taught Beginners mandolin for five years now, and there was always people at the end of the course who wanted an Intermediate mandolin course, but never enough to warrant it. (Actually, I think I could probably fill an Intermediate class, but another problem is that I simply don't have time.) ALP were very keen for me to do a workshop so I gave in and said I'd do it, but I haven't thought a lot about what to do in it. All suggestions welcome! One thing will be playing up the neck, or in the positions. I was hoping to go to a weekend workshop in Darlington this month, but I just can't afford it. I'd have been looking for tips as well as finally treating myself to a workshop. I'll be spending some considerable time between now and February thinking about it and formulating what I'm to do. I feel such a fraud. It's on Saturday 9th February, by the way. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
