Stop Struggling Alone. Start Being Part of the Music
BodhránExpert Platinum Membership (Level 1)
is the proven system to locking into tunes with other musicians without years of lessons before you’re 'allowed' to play.
Stuck at a plateau with your bodhrán playing? Imagine recording yourself playing along to a tune and not cringing when you listen back.
Go from struggling on the bodhrán to confidently playing rhythms that lift the music — using a simple, enjoyable approach that helps you feel musical, connected, and genuinely confident when you play.
Main Program
✅ Start Playing Musically
- 45 Never Seen Before Video Lessons
- Audio Recordings of all Video Lessons
- Written Transcripts from each lesson with the easy to follow Bodhrán Notation
- Over two hours of detailed instruction
You'll also receive the following:
Bonus Module 1 - OffBeat Reel Rhythm
✅ Feel musical, not mechanical or awkward
- In this module you will learn all about the Offbeat Reel Rhythm, how to use it in tunes.
- I originally planned to include one tune to play along with, but got so carried away during recording that we ended up putting together a four tune set.
- This is a 9 video module totalling over 1 hr 37 minutes.
Bonus Module 2 - Mastering Triplets and Rolls
✅ Become the kind of bodhrán player other musicians naturally respond to.
- In this lesson you will learn how to master Kerry style triplets and rolls once and for all.
- This is a complete blueprint to cracking what many find to be one of the most frustrating rudiments to learn and control.
- In this very detailed lesson you'll learn how to use triplets in the score for the very popular 'Toss The Feathers'.
- Five videos for another 85 minutes of quality instruction.
Bonus Module 3 - Slig Jigs
✅ Play with confidence, timing, and flow — not guesswork.
- This module is all about the Slip Jig. Not only will we cover various Slip Jig Rhythms, but we will learn a score to use it in AND I'll also teach you how to change between 9/8 and 6/8 time when the tune calls for it.
- You will also learn what to play along to Rocky Road To Dublin.
- Three videos totalling over 40 minutes of instruction.
Bonus Module 4 - Waltzes, Polkas & Marches
✅ Go from ‘tapping randomly’ to playing a rhythm that clearly fits the tune.
- This module will cover an introduction to Waltzes, Polkas and Marches.
- You will learn suggested beatings to play along to the featured tunes and much more. Includes O'Sullivan's March, John Ryan's Polka and Fanny Power Waltze.
- Five more great videos totalling 1 hr 14 minutes.
Bonus Module 5 - Intermediate & Advanced Jig Rhythms
✅ Feel the rhythm lock in and think, “Oh… I actually sound musical” while playing along to a tune.
- This module will cover intermediate and advanced jig rhythms and a really neat tune to use them in.
- This lesson really makes you think outside the jig box and see the cool possibilities beyond the Mother Of All Jig Rhythms.
- Five more videos of intense jig work will keep you busier than the 54 minutes of video time.
- As in all the modules the notes will really support you here, especially the 30 pages for this module alone.
Bonus Module 6 - The Bodhrán Solo
✅ Record yourself playing along to a tune and not cringe when you listen back.
- This module will cover how to piece together a bodhrán solo.
- Here I will teach you two sections of one of my own solos. First we'll cover the 'Jig Fanfare' and then what I call my 'Salsa' section.
- Four videos and almost another 100 minutes of video content in this module itself.
THE BUNDLE ALSO INCLUDES:
Bonus #7 - YouTube Bodhrán Hornpipe Series
All 10 videos of my 'Bodhrán Hornpipe Series' from my YouTube series are also now uploaded to the membership site. The accompanying pdf features the four separate featured rhythms and the full score for Dunphy's Hornpipe.
BONUS #8 - Graduation Bonus
I have recently added even more content to the Platinum course. The 'Graduation Bonus' is surprise bonus from me.
Now, this doesn't mean that once you do this you're done learning. It's just really great material that I couldn't hold back from giving you.
It's some top-end style rhythms that I know you'll all fall in love with. We even learn a cool score for our very own 'Platinum Reel' and we get to spend almost another fun hour together
BONUS #9 - Big Book Of Bodhrán
All the transcripts and notation from the Main Program and the first Six Bonus Modules have been compiled together into one larger, consecutive file of almost 400 pages to make the up the 'Big Book Of Bodhrán' pdf.
BONUS #10 - Tune Book
Here you'll find all the tunes we cover in the Platinum program in an advanced PDF that has clickable audio files right on the page so you can practice along, looking at the sheet music, and choose whichever tempo you want to play along with. Of course, you can also print it off.
BONUS #11 - Rhythm Booklet
Your Rhythm Booklet contains 300 RHYTHMS of various time signatures. Exercises up to 184 also include audios at six different tempos to practise along with right on the page.
It also have fillable boxes for you to enter your starting base and current tempo to help you track your progress.
BONUS #12 - Single End Triplet Workshop
In this special workshop I break everything down and use on-screen notation to de-mystify the different ways to play single-end ‘triplets’.
And don’t worry, you don’t have to know how to read music to follow this easy notation.
You’re not bad at bodhrán.
You’re just stuck playing by yourself.
This is for the player who knows there’s more in them — who wants to stop guessing, stop feeling disconnected, and finally play rhythms that lift the music.
With a simple, enjoyable approach, you’ll go from struggling alone to feeling confident, musical, and fully part of what’s happening around you.
Not louder.
Not flashier.
Just… musical.
Is Platinum Membership right for me?
- Suitable for beginner to advanced intermediate players of all ages. Suitable for players of other instruments as well as those with absoultely no musical experience.
- No previous knowledge of reading music required.
- Hit a bit of a bodhrán plateau? If so, this course is the perfect catalyst to snap you out of your rhythm rut.
- My easy-to-follow and friendly teaching approach will immediately put you at ease.
- If you need motivation and encouragement to keep going you're in the right place.
- If you're interested in joining, but still unsure if this course is right for you simply email me diectly at [email protected]
- GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC: If you want give someone Platinum Membership Level 1 as a gift, but want to keep it a secret until the time is right you can register using your own email and then I’ll surprise your loved one with a welcome email and new login details on their special day - you just let me know your preferred day. It’s quite exciting being part of surprises around the world.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Once you register you will immediately receive login details to our private membership site where you can GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY!.
- Life Time Access - you have lifetime access to the course so there's no need to feel that you have to complete it within a few months. Go completely at your own pace and in your own time.
- Everything is yours to keep - all material is downloadable for you to keep forever.
- You can't fall behind - take part In ‘real time’ (doing the material in time with your weekly class updates) or go completely at your own pace. Start and finish when it suits you knowing that if for any reason life gets in the way and you can't complete it in one go you can always come back and finish it later.
- I'll be there to guide you - you will get weekly emails from me so we can go through the entire program together and you get the full use of the course. My intention is not to overwhelm you each week with to-do’s, but to give you clear and concise direction to get more done in less time.
- I've made it super easy for you - Register for the important email updates and you'll also receive motivational tips and advice you won’t find anywhere else for a complete accelerated learning experience.
- Learn on the go - everything is not only viewable on regular computers and notebooks, but it is also Ipad, Iphone and android ready - particularly useful for those of you who like to learn on the go.
- Private Facebook Group - Consider this area to be your 'Bodhrán Help Hot-Line'. You wouldn't believe the amount of information, valuable tips and support that is shared here on a daily basis. The sense of community here is one of the things I'm the most proud of. Connecting here with me and your classmates will make you feel like we’re in this journey together.
- You might feel like I'm reading your mind - In my 45 years of drumming I have taught thousands of students in person and mastered how to explain things so it's easy for the learner to understand. This allows me to anticipate what questions you'll be thinking at various stages and often answer them in a video as they pop into your head. This is just one of the reaons why my Platinum students say they feel like I’m there in the room talking to them and teaching them directly.
- BodhránExpert Platinum Membership is an online video tutorial programme and fully downloadable (not a 'physical' product).
- Bodhrán Expert Platinum Membership is one of the first musical instrument online video tutorial courses of its kind that makes the student feel like the teacher is actually in the room with them, taking them by the hand through their learning journey..
