This is the follow-up volume to Bodhran: The Basics and is designed for those who want to improve their technique and expand their rhythmic repertoire. It contains exercises and solos in 4/4 6/8 3/4 and 9/8 time. The 568one-measure exercises are designed to improve a player's technical skill and demonstrate how to use the basic building blocks of rests accents rolls and syncopation to create interesting and varied rhythmic patterns. The 64short solos show how to combine the one-measure rhythmic patterns into longer compositions. In addition to the exercises and solos there are sections on time signatures counting syncopation playing on the backbeat vocalizing rhythmic patterns developing speed controlling pitch and timbre and playing with both hands. Audio download available online. Shows 568 one-measure exercises that are designed to improve a player'stechnical skill. Exercises and solos in 4/4 6/8 3/4 and 9/8 time. 64 short solos show how to combine the one-measure rhythmic patterns into longer compositions. Sections on syncopation playing on thebackbeat vocalizing rhythmic patterns developing speed controlling pitch and timbre and playing with both hands. Audio download available online.
