Goals and learning approach
What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.
Towards Stedman
If you are using Erin as a stepping stone towards Stedman, .
- decide what memory techniques and counting techniques you will inially use for Stedman,
apply them to Erin.
- Erin is pure backward hunting on the front, and using the days of the week, ring Monday - Wednesday - Friday for each bell
- Review the blue lines for the three ways the pairs of bells overlap in the frontwork
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Ringing Erin Doubles as a method in its own right
Get going:.
Use whatever learning approach you like most to acquire enough knowledge to ring a plain course.
If all of your experience on handbells is Plain Bob based, getting going is a non-trivial objective.
Performance Level
If you are wishing to achieve 120s, Quarters, or peals:
start with the "get going" as above, add in the bits that are natural to you.
Note that 2 different calls are used at the joins of the sixes, 5 becomes 125 or 145.
Practice a lot.
Achieve some
performances .
Method Mastery Level
It is very unusual for a band to wish to achieve
mastery
in a method like Erin.
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