by
John E. Heaton
This is a series of sessions which starts with very basic stuff and progresses in small steps to very complex stuff. It takes two routes through the quagmire: how to keep the ringing right and how to understand how touches are written down. There are lots of other titbits along the way.
The course is in a number of sessions and as it proceeds the notes will be added to this page. Also, as participants ask ever deeper questions, an "FAQ" will be added. In fact this will be combined with an "RAQ" (rarely asked questions) to produce something of greater value.
The session notes are presented in two forms: as web pages and as Word files. The web pages are quicker to see from this page but printouts should be made from the Word files because of the property of web browsers combined with Microsoft's unbelievably poor "operating system" to miss off the right hand side of web pages when they are printed. If anybody can't print Word files I'll add something that Wordpad can handle but I've not got the time or web space to cater for every conceivable format. I recommend that people try Open Office, which is a complete suite of software similar in scope to Microsoft Office but properly written (by Sun Systems), much more robust and totally free. Open Office can read and write almost any file format and will do better with MS Word files than MS Word itself does. Anyone who is interested can obtain a copy from me for £0.00.
Index To Session Notes
Session 1 - General Points About
Conducting (web page) (Word)
Plain Hunt, how to know what to look for:
Notes (web
page) (Word) Exercises (web
page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
Session
2 - A bit about method structure and the conducting of the Plain Course
of Plain
Bob Doubles, developed from Plain Hunt:
Notes (web
page) (Word) Exercises (web
page) (Word)
Method Sheets (web page) (Word))
Instructors' resources
Session
3 - Writing down simple touches, calling bobs at Home and introduction
to changing the coursing order after a bob:
Notes (web page) (Word)
A 120 Of Plain Bob Doubles (web page) (Word)
Exercises (web page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
Session
4 - Calls with the 5th affected, a complete collection of Plain
Bob Doubles touches, odds and ends of terminology:
Notes (web page) (Word)
Exercises (web page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
Session
5 - Plain Bob Minor, a few touches and bobs at Wrong and
Home:
Notes (web page) (Word)
Exercises (web page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
Session
6 - Plain Bob Minor, singles at Wrong, Before and
Home:
Notes (web page) (Word)
Exercises (web page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
Session
7 - Application of coursing order to a range of methods:
Notes (web page) (Word)
Exercises (web page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
Session
8 - Summary of transpositions previously introduced and
details of the remaining ones for Minor methods:
Notes (web page) (Word)
Exercises (web page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
Session
9 - Using coursing order to keep
track of compositions:
Notes (web page) (Word)
Exercises (web page) (Word)
Instructors' resources
At this stage students, with practice, will be able to call and accurately conduct any touch of regular single hunt doubles methods (Plain Bob, St Simon's, St Martin's, etc.) and any regular minor method (plain, treble bob or surprise, Tenor unaffected or affected at any position by bobs or singles).
Sessions will follow which deal with the application of the techniques to exceptional methods (Grandsire in particular) and methods on higher numbers.
Please send comments and suggestions for additional notes to the author.
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