Here are the videos from Monday 11th session, with apologies for the lateness! Idbury Hill is a Morris tune, from the Fieldtown tradition. The first video is a slow version of the tune – have a good listen before you start to learn or relearn it:
Here’s a walk through of the tune:
Once you’ve got the tune under your fingers, here are some videos on 1. ornamentation and 2. varying the tune:
Finally here’s a video with a play through including ornaments and variation, and a PDF with some of the ideas covered in the above videos.
Here are the dots – click here for a PDF, and a here for a PDF of the two chord sequences we tried.
Deborah is a violinist and violist specialising in English folk music. She trained in viola and Baroque viola at Birmingham Conservatoire, before returning to her first love of traditional music, song and dance.
Deborah has developed a passion for playing for dancing since joining her first ceilidh band at age 13. She is a member of Stepling, a band performing English music, step-dance, song and percussion, and also plays with Folk Dance Remixed, a dance company combining traditional dance with hip hop and street dance styles, with whom she has performed as such events as Car Fest, the Southbank's Festival of Love and Glasgow's Commonwealth Games Festival.
Deborah records on a regular basis for a number of people, including The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra, and for Laurel Swift's 'Travelling with Thomas' musical.
She teaches music, song and dance regularly for The English Folk Dance and Song Society, as well as on a freelance basis for various workshop series, festivals and music services. Deborah recently completed The Teaching Musician MA degree course at Trinity Laban, graduating with Distinction.
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