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what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
i ve been playing trad fiddle now for about 3 weeks and think i have about master it. all it really is, is a few riffs played over and over again, there is nothing to it! i just want to know how do you all make names for them all?
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
I get barred for a month, on a regular basis, for speaking the truth, yet we regularly get all these tramps turning up and pi$$ing on your flowers but hey thats ok............
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
I can't believe you guys haven't set this guy straight yet. Everyone knows there are TWO riffs in Irish music, the reel riff that goes diddle diddle diddle diddle, and that jiggy thing that goes diddley, diddley, diddley, diddley.
This seems as good a place as any to send a message to eleyne, about a wee bit of editing.
Since I mentioned Bobby Casey, I looked him up; & voila ~
"Casey In The Cowhouse"
Bobby Casey
January 23rd 2003 by eleyne http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/428
5. Brian Of Lynn
8. Roll Halfpenny
12. Gerry Daly's
If you want to troll on this forum I'm afraid you'll have to get more informed about the subject than your, frankly, pathetic and superficial attempt here.
Your basic trolling approach is OK but it fails on the way you try to use hackneyed old clichés. Try and be more subtle. The secret of a good troll is to be taken seriously thus winding up the regulars. This acyually involves a deep understanding of the subject or people you want to amuse yourself with. Your postings are rather poor. And a more neutral nom de plume would be more effective. How about 'Ouanqueur' or 'Bent Steeldick'?
Try again later with a new name and try and think of some sort of original insult as opposed to the dreary old ones that you choose to employ.
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
The funny thing is that I heard someone (who's handle has a respectable similarity to that of the OP) mocking exactly the same position as the OP on Thursday night, using much the same words.
Will you be Well Connected tonight? (OP will know what I mean if it is he.)
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Core Lingpupa, I'm way beyond the periphery (if Sydney is indeed periphery????) ... and even I know who OP is ... mustta heard tell on a galah session on me peddle radio. News travels fast in the bush.
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
TWAS NOT ME!!
I'm just staggering back from a great night of tunes wif the inimitable Ruairi McGorman (knows his way around a fiddle neck that fella - and the zouk too the feck*r) and find that I'm being weirdly implicated in, er, whatever it is that this is...
Strange coincidence though, I was just up north at a festy near cairns and got into a conversation with a stand up comedian who asked me in all seriousness that, how come once we irish heads had learnt "the Irish Riff" we just play that all night and don't play some other song. After I had derisively shown him the error of his ways he.... THEN WENT AND TOLD THE SAME STORY IN HIS STAND-UP ROUTINE AS IF HE WAS BEING ALL SELF-AWAREDLY STUPID. Oh how the audience laughed at how wittty this fella was. eejit.
An who:
SirNose - obscure funk-band Parliament refernce ("awww, put me down!")
Sir whatsy-fiddle-b*llox - um, well, er, NOT an obsure Parliament refernce?
what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
i ve been playing trad fiddle now for about 3 weeks and think i have about master it. all it really is, is a few riffs played over and over again, there is nothing to it! i just want to know how do you all make names for them all?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
improvise
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
thats so cool so improvise with the music and the names! so american!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
so if i decided to bring in my five string banjo to a session in ireland, that would make some cool sounds!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
I suppose you can continue playing it the same every time.
You can change things.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
which session?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
really? like how?! should i put in a few double stops with the old fiddle and then maybe play a G chord over a say a whole phrase of notes?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
oh i dont know like mc gorys in culdaff in donegal or cathal's pub in tyrone....just a few sessions i am thinking of hitting while im over!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
We just WIND UP the ITMinator, and it comes out with those craaazzzzy, whimsical names. Yep. That's how it works...
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Batlady
keep talking, tombo
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
whose tombo? is he some cool muso jammer to is he?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
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I think this must be Krick's younger brother or something.
*Of course* it's just one big riff played over and over, but it's letting the side down to rabbit on about this in public.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by nicholas
I was just looking at a map of Australia earlier today. Cannot find navadausa.
Any directions tombo?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
yeap its next to gundabeeawawhile and dunnowhereyagoin
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
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i thought there was something funny going on!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by irishmuso
just one big riff played over and over
Thanks, now I see it. 5-strings are perfect for what you are playing. ;)
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Nope - nothing funny going on.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Hup
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Fair play! Name the riff.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
& don't say, "listen to Bobby Casey."
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
I get barred for a month, on a regular basis, for speaking the truth, yet we regularly get all these tramps turning up and pi$$ing on your flowers but hey thats ok............
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Nick Splease
One big riff played over and over
I hadn't noticed you ever left Danny. Where did you go?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
I can't believe you guys haven't set this guy straight yet. Everyone knows there are TWO riffs in Irish music, the reel riff that goes diddle diddle diddle diddle, and that jiggy thing that goes diddley, diddley, diddley, diddley.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by AlBrown
Bobby Casey
This seems as good a place as any to send a message to eleyne, about a wee bit of editing.
Since I mentioned Bobby Casey, I looked him up; & voila ~
"Casey In The Cowhouse"
Bobby Casey
January 23rd 2003 by eleyne
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/428
5. Brian Of Lynn
8. Roll Halfpenny
12. Gerry Daly's
Cheers,
Ben
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Dear AlBrown
Please read, again;
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/21027
especially the most recent comment. ;)
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Oh, yeah, throw THAT old comment back in my face!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by AlBrown
I've done worse.
~ Later . . .
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
looks like hup and song line dreaming need to stop sounding so serious.....p*&sing on the flowers ay.....you make me laugh!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fiddly dee fiddly doo oh how all take it so seriously!
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
OK, you're right Tombo if that's who you used to be. Hmm -
sir fiddle master ... SirNose ... interesting Aussie connection
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Hup
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Tombo the fresh air and the cows must be getting to you!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Donough
The art of trolling...
Sir Fiddle master,
If you want to troll on this forum I'm afraid you'll have to get more informed about the subject than your, frankly, pathetic and superficial attempt here.
Your basic trolling approach is OK but it fails on the way you try to use hackneyed old clichés. Try and be more subtle. The secret of a good troll is to be taken seriously thus winding up the regulars. This acyually involves a deep understanding of the subject or people you want to amuse yourself with. Your postings are rather poor. And a more neutral nom de plume would be more effective. How about 'Ouanqueur' or 'Bent Steeldick'?
Try again later with a new name and try and think of some sort of original insult as opposed to the dreary old ones that you choose to employ.
Better luck next time,
Mr Yhaal House
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by yhaalhouse
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
...but to get back to the original posting....
..do you mean I've spent all my time trying to learn these different tunes for nothing ?
Doh !
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Guernsey Pete
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
But they are both such nice tunes, Pete.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by bazouki dave
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Sir Diddle master, more like.
It will send you blind if you keep it up!
I am 65 and already need glasses.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by mcknowall
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
What ho sir knight! Thine feeble trolling attempts are weak! Taketh thyself back to troll school and learn how to properly wind up the session.org!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
you dont think .....well it might be ......the return of ......CHOONZE?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by bazouki dave
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
No it is just Tombo with a change of name.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Definitely no cause for alarm ...
# Posted on October 31st 2009 by Clear Drops
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
The funny thing is that I heard someone (who's handle has a respectable similarity to that of the OP) mocking exactly the same position as the OP on Thursday night, using much the same words.
Will you be Well Connected tonight? (OP will know what I mean if it is he.)
# Posted on October 31st 2009 by Lingpupa
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
Core Lingpupa, I'm way beyond the periphery (if Sydney is indeed periphery????) ... and even I know who OP is ... mustta heard tell on a galah session on me peddle radio. News travels fast in the bush.
# Posted on October 31st 2009 by Clear Drops
Re: what is irish music...is it all just one big riff played over and over
TWAS NOT ME!!
I'm just staggering back from a great night of tunes wif the inimitable Ruairi McGorman (knows his way around a fiddle neck that fella - and the zouk too the feck*r) and find that I'm being weirdly implicated in, er, whatever it is that this is...
Strange coincidence though, I was just up north at a festy near cairns and got into a conversation with a stand up comedian who asked me in all seriousness that, how come once we irish heads had learnt "the Irish Riff" we just play that all night and don't play some other song. After I had derisively shown him the error of his ways he.... THEN WENT AND TOLD THE SAME STORY IN HIS STAND-UP ROUTINE AS IF HE WAS BEING ALL SELF-AWAREDLY STUPID. Oh how the audience laughed at how wittty this fella was. eejit.
An who:
SirNose - obscure funk-band Parliament refernce ("awww, put me down!")
Sir whatsy-fiddle-b*llox - um, well, er, NOT an obsure Parliament refernce?
Laters,
Benno D'Voidoffunk
# Posted on October 31st 2009 by SirNose
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I stand corrected!
# Posted on November 1st 2009 by Lingpupa