I was covering for Teirnan Courell’s whistle class at the Scots Music Group last night and found myself wandering into the woods of cuts, strikes and rolls. It’s a subject that comes up often when I teach flute or whistle. Some people don’t know what they are and those that do can find themselves at… Continue reading Cuts, strikes, rolls
Tag: low whistle
Tradwinds Winter Workshops
After a successful Autumn series, my monthly Tradewinds workshops series will run again at the Fisherrow Community Centre in Musselburgh on Saturday afternoons January – March 1-4pm. Ticketing will be online very soon. The dates are:
Tradwinds workshops
Next weekend sees the last of a series of 3 monthly Saturday workshops I have been running over the Autumn. Looking at a mixture of tunes from the Hebrides and some very local ones, I have just added the resources to my Dropbox for participants to look at in advance. From a teaching perspective, the… Continue reading Tradwinds workshops
Autumn workshops
Gordon returns to leading a series of workshops this Autumn, commencing on 23 September with a special 3-hour afternoon on Scottish Folk Day. Taking place at The Fisherrow Centre in Musselburgh, the stand-alone workshops will cover repertoire and technique and are suitable for players of keyed and unkeyed simple system flutes, Boehm system flutes, whistles and low… Continue reading Autumn workshops