Hi!
I’ve recently changed my finger placement more towards Mike McGoldrick style to get more out of my rolls and to be able to play more relaxed and faster. I am however still experiencing trouble getting the B and A rolls out properly. Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks
A.
I find these tough going and the solution I’ve hit upon
is methodical practice.
Brad Hurley suggests in a thread somewhere that
one can do two handed rolls on B and A.
You cut with the B finger and tap with the three
fingers of the right hand.
This works, it’s interesting; still I’m trying to get the
left handed rolls down. Sound better.
Practice, patience, time.
By the way, if one has a keyed flute, tapping the C natural key
can replace the cut part of the B and the A roll. It may be
less good but perhaps it will suffice. the roll is executed
pretty fast.
Dag Annemarie,
Jim heeft gelijk, oefen langzaam, vaak en heb geduld. Ik zou geen ‘trucjes’ uithalen.
Like Marcel Moyse said: “it’s all about Time, Patience and Intelligent work”.
Bart
There’s some good advice from a number of players in this thread, which may prove useful:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=12922&highlight=roll
Yes, a great thread.
The c natural key is very useful here, I’m thinking more
and more. Lots of uses.
So
xoo ooo
(o)xoo ooo tap key
xoo ooo
xxo xxx
xoo ooo
There’s the b roll.
A light key-tap seems best. The only thing the left hand
does is tap the A hole.
Works for A too. The key tap is the cut.
Lots of possibilities for crans as well.