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We're going to look at short rolls in
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Irish music. I'll give you an example.
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So there at the beginning of this tune,
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which is toss the feathers,
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you've got an E followed by three B's.
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That would be it with no ornamentation.
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But the last two of those Bs get
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ornamented. So the first one gets cut
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from above and the second one gets
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So that would be a really good exercise
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to do over and over, maybe starting very
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And then once you've got it, you can
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give it a bit more rhythm so it kind of
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Okay, so there's another place
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it would be uh B E E,
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but instead we ornament the last two of
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So the exercise could be
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or some combination, right? So you're
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trying to get them very even until
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you've got them really solid and your
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fingers are going to do what you want.
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Then you start thinking about the
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musicality and the rhythm of it. I wrote
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a tune a long time ago that works really
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well with these short rolls. I wasn't
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planning it, but it just came out that
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way. So, I'll play that for you now.
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So that's short rolls on the recorder.
