Yn ddiwethar dechreuais mynd i sesiwn cerddoriaeth mewn tafarn yn Rottingdean, pentref ger Brighton, pob nos Sul. Rhwng deg o gerddorwyr sy\u2019n chwarae yn y sesiwn \u2018ma ac maen nhw\u2019n i gyd yn dalentog iawn. Mae\u2019r mwyafrif ohonynt yn chwarae dau neu fwy offeryn cerddoriaeth yn dda, ac mae rhan ohonynt yn canu hefyd. Dan ni\u2019n chwarae alawon o Iwerddon yn bennaf, a dw i\u2019n nabod cryn dipyn onhonynt, ond llawer mwy o ymarfer sy\u2019n angen cyn i mi gallu chwarae\u2019r alawon yn gyflym ac yn dda heb gamgymeriadau. Dim ond chwarae\u2019r darnau mod i\u2019n gallu chwarae ydw i.<\/p>\n
Dw i\u2019n ceisio dysgu mwy o alawon wrth fy nghlustiau heb wrando ar y gerddoriaeth. Sgil defnyddiol iawn yw \u2018ny, a gobeithio bydda i\u2019n gallu dysgu bron unrhyw alawon ar \u00f4l wrando arno tipyn o weithiau. Ar hyn o bryd dw i\u2019n gorddibynnu ar gerddoriaeth ysgrifenedig. Dw i\u2019n gallu dysgu caneon fel \u2018ny yn barod, ond mae alawon symlach \u2018da nhw.<\/p>\n
Le d\u00e9ana\u00ed thosaigh m\u00e9 p\u00e1irt a ghlachadh i seisi\u00fan ceoil i dteach tabharine i Rottingdean, sr\u00e1idbhaile in aice le Brighton gach o\u00edche Dhomhnaigh. B\u00edonn thart ar deich daoine ag sheinm sa seis\u00fain seo agus is ceoltoir\u00ed ild\u00e1nach iad – b\u00edonn an chuid is m\u00f3 acu ag sheinm dh\u00e1 uirlis ceoil n\u00f3 n\u00edos m\u00f3, agus b\u00edonn chuid acu ag canadh freisin. B\u00edonn muid ag seinm poirt as \u00c9irinn go pr\u00edomha, agus t\u00e1 aithne agam ar go leor acu, ach t\u00e1 orm i bhfad n\u00edos m\u00f3 cleachtadh riomh gur f\u00e9idir liom iad a sheinm go mhaith, go tapaigh agus gan bot\u00fain. N\u00edl ach seinm na p\u00e1irt gur f\u00e9idir liom at\u00e1 m\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Bhain\u00edm triail as p\u00e1irt a fhoghlaim gan feachaint ar an ceol. Is scil an \u00fas\u00e1ideach sin agus t\u00e1 s\u00fail agam go mbeidh m\u00e9 in ann p\u00e1irt a fhoghlaim i ndiaidh iad a chloiste\u00e1il c\u00fapla uair. Ar faoi l\u00e1ithair bhain\u00edm an iomarca \u00fas\u00e1id as ceol scr\u00edofa agus m\u00e9 p\u00e1irt a fhoghlaim. Is f\u00e9idir liom amhrain a fhoghlaim tr\u00ed m\u00f3 cluais, ach b\u00edonn fonn n\u00edos simpl\u00ed acu.<\/p>\n
Recently I\u2019ve started going to an Irish music session at a pub in Rottingdean, a village not far from Brighton every Sunday evening. About ten or so people go to this session and they are all very talented musicians. Most of them play two or more instruments and some of them sing as well. We play mostly tunes from Ireland and I know quite a few of them, though a lot more practice is needed before I can play quickly and well without mistakes. I just play the bits I can.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m trying to learn more tunes by ear without looking at the music, a very useful skill which will hopefully develop over time until I can pick up more or less any new tune after hearing it only a couple of times – I tend to rely too much on written music at the moment. I can already do this for songs, though they tend to have simpler melodies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yn ddiwethar dechreuais mynd i sesiwn cerddoriaeth mewn tafarn yn Rottingdean, pentref ger Brighton, pob nos Sul. Rhwng deg o gerddorwyr sy\u2019n chwarae yn y sesiwn \u2018ma ac maen nhw\u2019n i gyd yn dalentog iawn. Mae\u2019r mwyafrif ohonynt yn chwarae dau neu fwy offeryn cerddoriaeth yn dda, ac mae rhan ohonynt yn canu hefyd. Dan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}