overview
- Mondays & Wednesdays 7:30 AM PST
- Zoomlink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84235671611?pwd=XQ3CucBEyzT016HK0O4Ts7zKNGiJ2p.1
Week by Week
| Mondays | Wednesdays | |
| Week 1 | 29 | 1 |
| NO CLASS | NO CLASS | |
| Week 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Leitrim Thrush | Leitrim Thrush | |
| Week 3 | 13 | 15 |
| Aarons Key | The Star | |
| Week 4 | 20 | 22 |
| Tolka Polka | NO CLASS | |
| Week 5 | 27 | 29 |
| Tolka Polka Review & Keep Her Lit | Review & Keep Her Lit |
Keep Her Lit/Endurance
- June Material – Keep Her Lit
- Maldon’s Jig Steps
- Reels – Advance & Retire Mick/Willie, Clare 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn
- Waltz Steps
- July Music Recordings – These are rough recordings for learning and practicing only. These are from the Colúr band (Autumn, Ben and Maldon).
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn/Keegan’s Waltz
- Leitrim Thrush/Aaron’s Key/Star
- Tolka Polka/The Hop Down
week 2
Week 2
Monday: Leitrim Thursh (single reel)
- Create a step for each part of the tune
- A Part Step
- B Part Step
Homework:
- Level 1: 70% slower
- Level 2: 80% slower
- Level 3: 90% slower
- Level 4: 100%
Wednesday: Leitrim Thursh (single reel)
Homework:
- Level 1: 70% slower
- Level 2: 80% slower
- Level 3: 90% slower
- Level 4: 100%
Ideas for the tune
- A-part – beginning – same but different – ‘hick up step”, ‘kick up step”, “drum”, “slide”
- B-Part – Clare 1 / Clare 2 / Clare 1 / Mick Dance at home off beats (or improvising around the b part, but always going back to “Mick’s step’ for the last 2 bars).
Variations, Ornamentations, Improvisations
Play with variations, adding ornamentions into your steps and improvising your steps. You can map these out or keep it lose and in your toolbox to bring out while dancing the tune.
- Level 1: Lock down transitions from the A and B parts
- Level 2: Create 1 – variation, ornamentation or improvisation
- Level 3: Create 2 – variation, ornamentation or improvisation
- Level 4: Dance All 3 varsations
Over all variation ideas
- Full list of ideas
- Rythmical varations – listen to Nathon and Joey
- Emphasis – changing it, swinging it
- Shifting the Beat
- Accross the bars
- Echo the rhythm
- Same but different – visually diferent but rythmcially the same
- Space
Homework:
- Level 1: 70% slower
- Level 2: 80% slower
- Level 3: 90% slower
- Level 4: 100%
week 3
Week 3
Woodshed
- Aaron’s Key (jig)
- Sheet Music: https://thesession.org/tunes/2266
- Recordings: https://thesession.org/tunes/2266/recordings
Monday: Aaron’s Key (jig)
Keep Her Lit/Endurance Homework:
- Leitrim Thrush Steps – your own and/or Maldon’s, keep building and improvising
- June Material – Keep Her Lit
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn
- Maldon’s Jig Steps
- Reels – Advance & Retire Mick/Willie, Clare 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
- Waltz Steps
Aaron’s Key Homework:
- Level 1: 70% slower
- Level 2: 80% slower
- Level 3: 90% slower
- Level 4: 100%
Wednesday: Star (jig)
3rd tune in the set. July Music Recordings – These are rough recordings for learning and practicing only. These are from the Colúr band (Autumn, Ben and Maldon).
Homework:
- Level 1: 70% slower
- Level 2: 80% slower
- Level 3: 90% slower
- Level 4: 100%
Keep Her Lit:
- We danced:
- Leitrim Thrush – Aaron’s Key – Star
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn (https://music.apple.com/us/album/teampall-an-ghleannt%C3%A1in-hickeys/256893329?i=256893376)
week 4
Week 4
Monday: Tolka Polka
Homework:
- Level 1: 70% slower
- Level 2: 80% slower
- Level 3: 90% slower
- Level 4: 100%
week 5
Tolka Polka C part & whole tune
Homework:
- Level 1: 70% slower
- Level 2: 80% slower
- Level 3: 90% slower
- Level 4: 100%
Keep Her Lit – July
- The Leitrim Thrush: The Grand Spy / The Leitrim Thrush – Nathan Gourley, Joey Abarta & Owen Marshall Copley Street 2
- full speed, 80% (felt too slow for some)
- Aaron’s Quay: Lisnagun / Aaron’s Quay / The Handsome Young Maidens (Live) – Bua Live At Martyrs’ Singer/Songwriter
- full speed, we didn’t have a chance to dance this slower
- Tempall an Ghleanntán: Teampall an Ghleanntáin, Hickey’s – Mick O’Brien agus Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Kitty Lie Over
- dance on your own
playlist
keep her lit
Keep Her Lit: June Material
- Jigs
- Reels
- Mick A&R reels
- Wilie Keane A&R
- Clare 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
- Hare’s Paw
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn – A part step
- Waltzes
- Timming step (with and without extra beat)
- Simple heel (with and without extra beat)
- Triplet
- Kick Up
- Jump
- Side (cape breton)
- Partner (side by side)
- Irish
- Jig
- Mattie’s – Clog step
- Partner (back to back)
- Ronan’s – Hip step (Keegan’s Waltz)
