How To Play Rolls?

[gzeg]

Hello! This is my first post, and since I'm only a B/C box player, I hope you'll go easy on me. (I do actually own a concertina, if that's any consolation, a 40's German Ab/Eb with very nice reeds, which will never be playable due to multiple air leaks and poor construction. Believe me, I've tried.)

 

I also teach flute and whistle, and I have a whistle student who did the sensible thing and took up the concertina (30-button Anglo). She's making great progress, and I'm able to show her quite a bit of stuff and teach her tunes, but I have no idea where to start with rolls on the concertina. So far, the response I've got to this question is "Go to a Noel Hill workshop", which isn't really practical at this stage.

 

What we're looking for are basic suggestions/descriptions, of roll patterns. Anything out there on the web? I know Noel Hill plays rolls differently from some (everybody else?), so it would be nice to hear an outline of the differences.

 

Any help would be most appreciated. I'll come back with some annoying box-player stories.

 

Greg Hooper

[Sandy Winters]

Check out the link in the 'ornament' thread , the one started by GeoffWright.

Edited December 16, 2004 by Sandy Winters

[Henk van Aalten]

Check out the link in the 'ornament' thread , the one started by GeoffWright.

I could not find this link, but I've found this:

 

F# Roll On A G/c 30 Buttons Concertina

When To Ornament, Beginner Ornamentation on the Anglo

Going Beyond Cuts, (Irish techniques)

Edited December 17, 2004 by Henk van Aalten

[Sandy Winters]

Here's the link:

 

Link to Simon Wells' anglo tutor

 

It has a very informative section on ornamentation in the Irish style.

[gzeg]

Thanks very much! That will certainly give us something to think about.

 

Greg