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Ringing inside [message #44906]

Fri, 16 September 2011 20:52

b_twin_1
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Ringing inside

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: Ringing inside [message #44907 is a reply to message #44906 ]

Fri, 16 September 2011 20:55

b_twin_1
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Brrrr. Call changes, yes. Methods.... arrrrggghhhh
I think I need ..... lots of bell practice?? One day I will be able to COUNT ROPES. Gah.

IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT by the way. Razz

PS. Ringing at diff tower tomorrow. Maybe some gurus can help me! I expect to be brain-fried....

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: Ringing inside [message #44910 is a reply to message #44906 ]

Fri, 16 September 2011 21:26

EMoon
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It just occurred to me (and has already occurred to many others, probably) that "Ringing Inside" is a great book title with many possibilities other than a murder mystery involving method ringers.

Though it could be a really cool murder mystery, too. Or maybe just mystery w/o the murder. Theft mystery. Embezzlement from a bell fund. Or...something.

OK, I now understand that blog names are hard to come up with, so I guess I'll name our guy something that occurs to me. Maybe Hephaestus because he beats us into shape (but he's not lame. Hmmm. Still like it. But it's not musical.

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Fri, 16 September 2011 21:32

EMoon
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And this appears to be my day or so of one-armed parentheses...leaving off half the pair. Sigh. Bad habit, must fix.

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Re: Ringing inside [message #44914 is a reply to message #44907 ]

Sat, 17 September 2011 03:01

CathyR
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b_twin_1 wrote on Sat, 17 September 2011 01:55

Brrrr. Call changes, yes. Methods.... arrrrggghhhh
I think I need ..... lots of bell practice?? One day I will be able to COUNT ROPES. Gah.

IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT by the way. Razz

PS. Ringing at diff tower tomorrow. Maybe some gurus can help me! I expect to be brain-fried....

How long have you been ringing? I was convinced I would never, ever, get ropesight. It was at least 18 months, probably nearer two years, before I could even get a glimmer of ropesight with only three bells, ringing the 2nd in Grandsire.

Worry not! It will come, and you won't realise you've turned that corner until you suddenly complete a course or a touch of something and think ... wow, yes, I did it!! Smile

Have fun being brain-fried!

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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Re: Ringing inside [message #44915 is a reply to message #44914 ]

Sat, 17 September 2011 08:41

Audrey Falconer
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Well, I've been ringing for 3 and a bit years now, and I can reliably count 4 ropes other than my own (ie, doubles). I've been playing with the tenor recently though in our 6 bell tower, and wow, trying to watch that extra bell is sooooo hard!

It's all Robin's fault!

I can get through the plain course of Grandsire Doubles and Plain Bob Doubles pretty well, by now, on several bells, so that's a big plus.

Mind you, a learner turned up recently - escaped from a call-chage only area of the UK. I'm actually having fun trying to teach her - she's remembering the rope-handling just fine and I'm trying to get the concept of counting through to her. What I did last week was ring plain hunt on three with me on treble, and I called out what place I was ringing as I pulled. "Second, third, third, second, lead, lead...". Seemed to help her follow it. I learnt it recently enough myself to remember how I learnt it and do those things that I wished people would do for me back then. Oddly, other ringers seem to think it would be hard to call out the place they're ringing.

Audrey

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Re: Ringing inside [message #44916 is a reply to message #44914 ]

Sat, 17 September 2011 08:46

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18 months now... Smile

Last month I felt I had a glimpse. A very fleeting glimpse. Gave me hope... but then I've been rubbish since. haha

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Sat, 17 September 2011 09:17

AJLR
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but I am going to go out on this nice firm sturdy limb here and say there is nothing else like learning method ringing. Nothing. Else.

Totally agree. When I was doing a Master's, a few years ago, there were far fewer demands on my brain in the sense of sheer processing and association than there are now, learning the baby inside steps (so far as ringing methods goes) of the two to Bob Doubles. It's the combination of fast mental agility and physical co-ordination that's so hard - and that makes it so fascinating. Smile

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Monty, however, is going to boil through learning inside like Desert Orchid chasing for the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

I know it's not nice for a grown woman to hate a teenager for no good reason but I'm afraid I may be heading that way. Smile

I'm doing exactly the same thing as Monty, except I've been doing it for three practise nights now and I still haven't got it right. Arrgggh! I get so caught up in trying to keep counting my places that I forget who to ring over. Someone pass me a spare brain, if they've one to hand. Razz

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Re: Ringing inside [message #44919 is a reply to message #44917 ]

Sat, 17 September 2011 10:32

CathyR
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AJLR wrote on Sat, 17 September 2011 14:17

When I was doing a Master's, a few years ago, there were far fewer demands on my brain in the sense of sheer processing and association than there are now, learning the baby inside steps (so far as ringing methods goes) of the two to Bob Doubles. It's the combination of fast mental agility and physical co-ordination that's so hard - and that makes it so fascinating. Smile

I agree totally. Purely academic challenges pale into insignificance compared to the challenges of bellringing!

I still remember vividly the feeling of absolute and total certainty that I would never, ever, master bob doubles! Smile

Progress is so often two steps forward, one-and-a-half steps backwards!

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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