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by: Conor Long  List Price: $11.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.71 You Save: $0.24 ( 2%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 786.95143 EAN: 9780786631308 ISBN: 0786631309 Label: Walton's Mfg. Ltd. Manufacturer: Walton's Mfg. Ltd. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 32 Publication Date: November 10, 2000 Publisher: Walton's Mfg. Ltd. Studio: Walton's Mfg. Ltd. Sales Rank: 458618 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A simple, easy-to-use introduction to the bodhran. Learn to play this wonderful, ancient percussion instrument and liven up your traditional Irish sessions! This book aims to teach the beginner the basics of good bodhran playing with full participation in a traditional session as its principal goal. Standard notation. The companion cassette is highly recommended for understanding the dynamic function of the bodhran in session playing. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Very lacking in what a beginner needsAs a musician but new to playing the bodhran, I was hoping this would give me a nice introduction to this drum. But I got a book that was lacking a lot of basic information, often made confusing statements (like saying only to use the bottom of the stick...and then following it up with a statement about the top of the stick "coming into play naturally"...hardly something that comes natural to new players!) It has a CD to play along with the music, but goes WAY too fast for any beginner to really ... Read More Rating: - "Absolute beginners?"I just got the CD edition of this booklet. Aside from being cheesed at how short it is for the price, it has pluses and minuses. On the plus side, the prep material is brief but reasonably thorough, and the addition of drum and whistle tunes to play along with is really good. On the minus side, I almost immediately came to detest the tablature method used to the exclusion of standard notation (I'll have to go back with a notebook and copy them out into standard), and the main problem with the excercises ... Read More Rating:  - Very Good Beginning TutorialThe bodhran is an instrument that really requires a teacher. However, for an absolute beginning this book is a great start. I do not know why a previous reviewer complained that the CD tracks are backwards or that the selections do not repeat enough. On the contrary, each selection repeats a few times and many are set to music that plays for nearly a minute each. This is one strength of the book since it allows the student to practice exercises with music. On my CD the tracts follow the ... Read More Rating: - Bodhran TutorThe beginner,s manual is at first look an "easy to use method", however when you try to use the accompany of the CD, the beginning is at the end. This making it difficult to get started. Also, it would be helpful if there were more repitition with each section, as well as some pause for trial after each segment, as it is a bit difficult to operate CD and drum at the same time. Browse for similar items by category:
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