How to Approach Irish Flute Ornamentation (rolls) - Trad School with Shannon Heaton - Video 08 

Thank you Shannon for the tuition on “Functional Rhythmic Events” I love this description. My focus these past few months has been on Rolls, Cuts, Taps and Glottal Stops. I find your videos and broadcasts are not just entertaining but immensely important in the world of Flute Learning at all levels. Magic stuff!

This woman is brilliant,l finally get it.Thank you very much.

Phew, most clarity I've seen and in such a tiny space. What a great gift. Well done Shannon. Thanks.

Your lessons are clear and readily applicable. Please continue to share your knowledge 🙌

Amazing, thank you!

😊 Your so sweet to share this with us for free ! Thank you ! Very helpful . ❤️

Got it!

Great stuff!!! Thanks! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🌞🌞

Awesome lesson, Shannon! There's several hours' worth of practice condensed in this one short video. I will admit that your approach is different from mine, but there's no arguing with your results. Thanks for your clear and concise explanations. I'll be watching this one again. (and again)

At last I understand the roll. Thanks for posting this Shannon. Great pedagogy!

Thank you for this wonderful explanation of rolls! Great stuff.

Dear Shannon! Thank you for this amazing lessons!💜

Great stuff 👍

Really appreciate the insight into your fab flute playing. Great to provide examples too.

Great lesson👍I don't play flute but could listen to it all day. Thank you👏

Dear Shannon, the most interesting and clearly lesson about rolls and irish flute music I never watch, I love it! congratulations and thanks for share! Best regards from Spain

Revisiting my B rolls now. Another top tutorial from you! Thanks so much. 🤗

Fantastic tutorial.

Brilliant! Thank you, Shannon.

You're such a fantastic player AND teacher. Thanks so much!

Shannon, this is wonderful instruction. I had never heard about doing different breath pulses depending on whether the roll is on the upbeat or downbeat. Thank you so much. Playing along with all the tune samples you picked to get the breath pulse right is an exercise in itself.

Thank you for writing out the fingering details--so helpful!

Shannon teaches in such a clear, understandable way. Brilliant ! Thanks Shannon ! What you said about lift . . . yea !

Thank you for explanation! Very interesting!

Great video.

Nice 👍 that flute has got a nice warm woody tone. Beautiful.

Very instructive and love yer teaching, Master Shannon. Since I started more seriously Irish Trad Music in 2011-2012 I often heard about those cuts and rolls, but never knew really well what they were and meant. On the guitar the most common ornementation are pull-offs, hammer-ons and also slides. I wonder what are their equivalents on the flute and fiddle. Shall probably have to watch this video a few times to really understand. Before Master Matt could do a guitar equivalent one for the guitar. Have a nice week, Shannon 😉❤️ Trugarez x

Excellent

Hi Shannon, Sadly I can’t hardly play Irish flute anymore because of shaking problem with my lips when I play, specially in public. I wonder if you had a student encounter that problem... For that reason I now play Whistle and specially Low Whistle most of the time. I have two wooden Low Whistles to try to be as close as flute sound as possible. Shannon, you are such a fantastic flute player and teacher as well and I am so grateful to being able to follow your tuition regularly on You Tube. Just for this lesson, I will dedicate many hours to learn and specially relearn my ornementations. Thank you soooooo much! Arsène, from east-coast, New-Brunswick, Canada

Lately I've been cutting and tapping with the notes by each other. I also have wooden whistles and a brass Killarney whistle. Seems to be more challenging completely a roll on the wooden whistle the higher I go up towards the fipple. Any pointers are welcome. Thank you for your help. Wonder ful video

Excellent demo and description of the finer points of rolls, especially with respect to the rhythmic emphasis - thanks! I've been playing Irish music on harmonica for many years. Rolls are not possible because they require breath changes, which slow them down and make them sound choppy. So I and other harmonica players just use triplets instead: effective enough, but without the subtle complexity of rolls. It's always bugged me somewhat to have this limitation, but happily now technology is providing a solution! I've started using a Midi Harmonica called the Lekholm DM48, which has extra note alteration buttons. These allow fast rolls all on one breath, with just two fingers getting the higher and lower notes of the roll - very similar to a flute! It's not the same harmonica sound of course but the scale and playing technique is the same. That means I can re-work the trad repertoire I already have and give the tunes a more 'authentic' sound by playing them similarly to the flute, fiddle & whistle. It opens up a whole fascinating new level of Irish playing, but mastering the rolls to the point where they are always clean and precise takes some practicing! However I'm enjoying the learning process, and your clear description and excellent demonstrations are a big help! 🙂👍

Thanks for this video Shannon. Very informative. Could you please advise how improve the speed of the roll so it sounds crisp like the ones you play on the intro to this video.

You’re a shining light for me and others here. 😊 Which jig are you playing in the intro. Would love to learn it please

I find it quite difficult to keep rhythm when I add a roll in for some reason. You make it look so effortless. Thanks for the video though, inspired to practice more

Hi Sharon great tuition very helpful. Is it frowned upon in Irish playing to use a push or tonguing instead of the cut or vent when playing a roll

I don’t know why, but any roll which uses the two fingers either side of my middle finger (on either hand) is seriously awkward, for example the E roll and the A roll. Every other roll seems easy in comparison.

How can I feel the vibration when you play the floot