Irish Music & Instruments : How to Play a Bodhran

[Chad01234]

Sigh, hard to focus on the Bodhram when the lady playing is a Celtic goddess.

[nephildevil]

getting a bodhran is prob best since that is descendant from true european shamanism, not interested in making fancy music however, just in creating primal trance states and voyaging into the unseen

[nephildevil]

wonder how the fuck imma gonna get that on my backpack however :p

[0x0221]

THIS.....is a great video

[MargeSimpson20]

She looks like Kelly Clarkson.

[bigbuffler]

Ach! S'guid she cahn plaiy aroon' hair oon knobs, aye!

[snarematy]

Nice Video! I play in the same style as she...  :)

[AcidZack]

stick u up the arseeeeeeeee

[PandaLove90210]

thats some green green grass

[alialcollins]

You might want to mention that you're teaching people how to play the bodhran the newer way, rather than the old fashioned / Kerry way, in which you hit both ends of the stick against the drum. As far as I can tell, you are only hitting one side of the stick against the drum.

[greencircle86]

Love it!!

[niallzoful]

Although I don't wish to add to the rather more objectivist statements....nice arms!

[lBStrokin]

God almighty.  Think she gives home lessons? Watching this doesnt make me wanna pound a drum as much as pound her.

[satelliteradio711]

and she did it totally sober nice job!

[PikoParty]

she doesn't teach much, does she? she doesn't even show the different styles of strumming.

[PandaLove90210]

she's a cutie ;)

[juliekolker]

thank you for the vid!

[dpistalo]

you should losen your skin to get deaper bass sound. And try using a thiner stick, so you can get more different sounds.

Wery nice playing at the beginig of tutor :)

[PerfectSaga]

@OB1sa Wrong country...

[MeegsRocha]

@PerfectSaga so??

[PerfectSaga]

@MeegsRocha I don't even know what happened here, because the comment was removed. So pretty much, don't waste my time with comments like this.

[bluepkzrule]

booring xD lol but nice from you to show how to use it

[bluepkzrule]

booring xD lol

[kevdoherty]

nicely done!

[KatelynC7080]

Class Playin Amy:)

Its Katelyn Here I Was in ur class in gurteen last year:)

[Axle1073]

Irish accent = putty

[MeegsRocha]

@Axle1073 huh?

[Axle1073]

@MeegsRocha ment to say pretty lol

[Icdmen01]

In italy we call this instrunment "tamburella" :)

[Holdenon3]

I just a bodhran and I have a question.

How much pressure are you (Amy or any other player) putting on the skin with your left hand?

It looks like Amy is barely applying any pressure, yet she gets such a range of tone. I can't seem to affect the tone unless I vary the pressure on the skin, rather than vary the distance between the stick and left hand as she explains.

[Holdenon3]

@Holdenon3 "I just BOUGHT a bodhran" that should read. :-)

[kayjay83]

twitter is satan incarnate

[sassylassy01]

I bought a bodhran at an Irish fair once. Yeah it is sort of a kids toy but I can practice on it till I can get a real one if I want a real one.

[gdstumbo]

Good starter video Amy - summed up a lot in two minutes.

[Paddyslippers]

bow-rawn = bodhrán.. amy pronounces it right!!

Its not bow like bow and arrow its bow, like rianna's song take a bow!!

[dashwood123]

In Ireland, we pronounce it- boran, that's what it sounds like when said quickly. Bo' and ran, with emphasis on the O, the h is not emphasised. Bo'ran. The d is silent. dobh!- doh! to bo-ran. I can see the men in white coats, time to go. Slán.

[MeegsRocha]

@dashwood123 Aye in Scotland is kind of pronounced BoDran! my family being Scottish/Irish i get a lovely mixture of pronunciations!! :-D

[ScotsmanRS]

@MeegsRocha I'd say it's only pronounced "bo-dran" here by the alarming number of Scots who are completely ignorant of Gaelic.

[eimead]

@dashwood123 What part of Ireland are you from... In Donegal we say it exactly like she said it.

[dashwood123]

@eimead On the borders of Co Cork and Co Limerick, a place called Kilfinane.

[eimead]

@dashwood123 fair enough. the dialect changes alot between us and you, but she's pronouncing it fine by me.

[dashwood123]

@eimead That's all that matters then, isn't it. ;) Anyway since we handed in our guns, we don't have much use for it nowadays. Twas a battle drum you see. ;)

[eimead]

@dashwood123 you said it brother... though it's still always a welcome sound at the session on sunday night

[padraicohare]

@dashwood123 Rhymes with moron! ;)

[UltraFlashlight]

@dashwood123 My last names Boran. But my parents always pronounced it as Boar-an. Haha. I've been mispronouncing my own last name for years! xD I would love to learn how to play though. Just because I could up to people and say "I'm Ms. Boran and I can play the Bodhran." lol