hullo tommy,
thats a gfd triplet. I “don’t think I’ve” ever heard it used by anyone else “and it wasn’t taught to me by anyone” so I’m not sure how it came to find its way to my hands! it just sorta seemed to make sense one day when I was playing the tune… It’s an easy triplet to learn if you already have gfe down, and I think it gives a neat lift to the tune. I have yet to find another tune to use it in though… any ideas?
Jordan
how does this chanter compare to patrick o’hare’s?
hi seanny,
if you’re asking how my Rogge polyacetal chanter compares to Patrick O’hares chanters I’m afraid I can’t answer that. I don’t know a single thing about Patrick O’Hare. Sorry! Maybe some of the other plastic Rogge owners can help?
Jordan
You better start listening closer, that is pretty standard fare
ouch. Okay, I’ll try to do better.
I’ve listened to as much as I can, as closely as I can, and I’ve never picked out that triplet. I guess if it’s a common one it’s possible I’ve heard it (although being self taught, unable to afford buying EVERY record i would like to, and living hundreds of kilometers from any other pipers, it’s possible I haven’t..
, I didn’t mean to sound high-and mighty if I came across that way, I was just excited to share something that I had “discovered” on my own, and that I felt wasn’t “common fare” if you’re learning from books or videos.
Peter, maybe you could point me towards some examples? I would appreciate that.
thanks,
jordan
Whoever uses gfd they’re playing it pretty fast. Hard to pick out what’s what really, I was surprised to be told Robbie Hannon uses a C# or B cut on a G roll. I think it was. It doesn’t come across as very sharp sounding like you’d expect.
There’s a whole forest of these staccato ornaments that use two fingers in one hand and one in the other, search this forum for “backstitching.” A whole wide world of fart noises.
Where’d you come across a Matt Kiernan set, Jordan?
I was showing a Highland piper the fingering for the Irish pipes. “So there’s no turluath or birls, it’s a lot simpler?” “Yeah, see, you lift the chanter, that’s the bottom note, then put it down again and lift two fingers, then one, then two, and so on, you see? Then press harder and repeat and there’s the second octave.” “Hey, that’s a lot simpler!” “Well, yes, now you play it differently with the chanter up.” “Different?” “Yeah, ummm, you play it differently with loose fingering, too.” “Loose?” “Loose, also called open.” “Open?” “Yeah, you can play loose on the knee too.” “Knee?”
This killed about an hour’s time. Lucky sod, only wants to play slow airs!
…um, I’m kinda new to ABC notation. Just haven’t bothered to learn it (the ol’ hard drive is getting kinda full, doncha know). I am assuming the gfd triplet is upper octave gf and thumb d, right?
tk
tommy- yes, that’s correct.
jordan- the gfd triplet is taught in Vol II of the NPU video series. If you’d like to expand your repertoire of ornaments, you might want to pick up Vol II and III. Vol. I would be too basic for you.
jd