Road to Lisdonverna – Practice Master Test

Irish Jig in E Dorian (D Major)
Beginner > Module 1.8

Loop 5 to 6

Learning chunks 

I’ve made some “Learning Chunks” to help you learn more easily. These focused exercises contain sheet music, tabs and mp3 snippets to guide you on your fiddle journey. The idea is to start with small musical bits, get good at those, and then put them together into bigger pieces until you have the whole tune. I call it Micro-practice.

 

Preparation

Warm up with the D major scale and phrases from the tune (once you’ve learned it) using a D drone: 

For those of you who read (or want to read), all snippets use this key and time signature:

A part, third quarter

D1-A1-1-0-1-2-3

Interlude

Let’s pause for a moment and pay attention to how we practice.

Creativity, Fun and Adventure ?

Always try to find creative ways to make practicing fun. How can you practice the same thing in different ways? Can you learn to enjoy the sound? Can you even learn to enjoy the struggle?

If you explore different options for playing the same thing, then you will be able to enjoy practicing that for a longer time. Remember, the brain gets bored easily, but the hands need lots and lots of time to learn things.

B part, second quarter

A2-0-0-1-2-3-1-1

B part, third quarter

E0-1-L2-1-0-A3-1-1-2-3

B part, fourth quarter

A2-3-2-1-0-1-D1-1

 

Play Along Track – Full Tune

Drone in E – No Beat

A3-E0

D major scale

E dorian scale: D1-2-3-A0-1-2-3-E0

D1-A1-1-0-1-2-3

E0-1-L2-1

Connections: Play Road to Lisdonverna in a set with O’Keefe’s Slide.

Road to Lisdonverna – Full Tabs & Sheet Music

 

A part

First quarter: D1-A1-1-0-1-2-3

Second quarter: D2-A0-0-1-0-D0-1-2-1-0

Third quarter: D1-A1-1-0-1-2-3

Fourth quarter: A2-3-2-1-0-1-D1-1

B part

First quarter: E0-1-L2-1-0-A3-1-1-2-3

Second quarter: A2-0-0-1-2-3-1-1

Third quarter: E0-1-L2-1-0-A3-1-1-2-3

Fourth quarter: A2-3-2-1-0-1-D1-1

Tracking, workbook and other versions on Youtube

Lesson tracking

 

Lessons complete in Module 1.8: 

 

Workbook 1.8

Don’t forget to add Road to Lisdonverna under “List the things you practice” in your workbook

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11 responses to “Road to Lisdonverna – Practice Master Test”

  1. Hi @dayolaw,

    I am the person who developed the looper. Was wondering … in your comment on 3 Dec. are you looking for a feature, like a button that starts a loop from where it’s playing? Then it loops is forward or backward a certain interval. Thanks for the great feedback!

    1. Hi Stephen

      what i was thinking was when you play the fiddlehead video the slider would follow the time code then when you get to a part you want to loop the video and looper would stop in the same place

      Damian

  2. i been using it mostly for learning one piece at at time but the beauty for me is TUNING for me its so much easier the keep the fiddle in tune with you and know when you are slipping out of tune Also i love trying to play along with you when you first play the tune at normal tempo i loop that and try get the feel and tempo of the tune if you could slow down the video that would be good as i find when your learning the pieces of the tune slowly you you tend to get very robotic in your playing

    Love your lessons and style of teaching and your attention to your students

  4. Example is [A Part, First Quarter]…from 1:14 to 1:45 on the video

    Find the starting and end point times on the video for any section you want to practice in the video.
    For this example, Stop the video and Set-up the start/stop times or “loop points” on the slider app dots.
    (When the mouse hovers over a dot it gives you the time signature)
    When both dots are set up…the left dot to 1:14 and right dot to 1:45 then turn on the slider.
    You are now in the Looping Mode!
    Hope this helps 🙂