Tonguing in Irish Flute Playing

Video Transcript

" Hi I'm David Cantieni and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to be showing you the many aspects of playing the Irish wooden flute. If you are interested in more information or finding out other places where you may find me you can go to www.digdigmusic.com or you could email me at digdig@cracker.com. Now of course there are many other types of articulation that Irish music that I would call a ornament which would be tonguing. You could use the letter T. usually we shy away from using that rather we could use a gladell stop instead which give a fuller much open sound. So you could play. I've started with that. Another interesting and useful ornament which actually doesn't supply rhythm but just shading would be using just a little vibration of the finger so you could play. That might not be the most effective use of the often I will use it at the end of a phrase so. Something like that. One more that sounds a lot like a cran would be a triplet figure. You could play that in the place of a cran and I might play in which case I'm making a sort of triplets sounding thing. Maybe I could play it a little slower is the way it sounds when you turn it down. You could also play it like a regular triplet or ."