Traditional Irish Bodhr?n for Beginners

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Last updated on June 16, 2025 10:39 pm

Learn to play the traditional Irish drum with bodhrán player Dermot Sheedy, from Hermitage Green. Progress from basic beats to full motor rhythm in 12 lessons.

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The handheld bodhr?n [pronounced bow-ron] drum has a special place in Irish folk and traditional music culture and now you can master it too with these free online beginner lessons. Dermot Sheedy, drummer with Hermitage Green, will teach you techniques for creating traditional rhythms and bringing out the tone for the best Irish bodhr?n sound. After this 12-part course, you will have learned a full motor rhythm and be able to drum along to reels.

What You Will Learn In This Free Course

  • Identify the parts of the bodhr?n…
  • Describe the correct positioning of …
  • Play the up and down strokes…
  • Eradicate ‘sweep’ from the up and do…
  • Identify the parts of the bodhr?n
  • Describe the correct positioning of the drum and the stick grip
  • Play the up and down strokes
  • Eradicate ‘sweep’ from the up and down beats
  • Add emphasis or a phrase beat
  • Use a metronome to drum at half speed and normal speed
  • State techniques for unlocking the tone of the bodhr?n to create a more colourful sound
  • Keep rhythm at different speeds
  • Play a ‘rundown’ where the drum is played from the top to the bottom
  • Identify the rhythm for a reel
  • Recognise the reel rhythm including rundowns
  • Introduce a backbeat or ‘pop’ to your playing
  • Play a full bodhr?n beat or ‘motor rhythm’
  • The Bodhr?n Basics

    Learn the basics of playing the bodhr?n skilfully. Tutor Dermot Sheedy will teach you how to play up and down strokes cleanly and build up fluidity. You?ll learn about different tones, depending on where and how you strike the bodhr?n. By the end of these lessons you will be able to introduce colour to your playing with rundowns and backbeats.

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