Among Sallies and Bobs
musings on change ringing
Cambridge Surprise Minor
In this post I present a way of understanding Cambridge Surprise Minor that will make it easier to learn Cambridge on more bells. I don’t necessarily expect this explanation to be a direct help with actually ringing the method—it’s more to help remember the line, which should in turn help you ring it! If you’re…
Keep readingBite-size Intro to Method Splicing
This post is about how to quickly make up short spliced compositions suitable for a practice night. The entire focus is on how to make something that will come round, without having to simply memorize compositions that work. In some ways, coming up with a spliced touch for a practice night is easier than making…
Keep readingHarlington Alliance Minor
This post is the first of what I hope will be an occasional series, where I simply explain a method in words. How ringers think about a method in practical terms, when actually ringing, is often rather different from how we represent methods in diagrams! So learning a method generally involves some sort of translation…
Keep readingFrom Plain Bob Doubles to Triples
This post is aimed at ringers who have recently “moved on” from Plain Bob Doubles, and those who teach such ringers. Plain Bob Doubles has a lot of features that aren’t often explicitly taught, usually because it would be too much information at once for the ringers learning. But continuing to work on it and…
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