In providing this index to YouTube training webinars and videos, we recognise the special efforts of ringing organisations, guilds, associations and individuals who have gone the extra mile to keep ringers engaged and learning during lockdown. Hopefully you will find things here which are useful, interesting, even entertaining!
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Abel Tutorials
ART - Handbell Tutorials
ART - Abel Tutorials
ART - Webinars
Lewisham District Training
Cambridge District Bell Ringers
St Martin's Guild
Educational Videos
Miscellaneous
Simbell
All
Abel Tutorials
Andy Cope – All Souls Guild of Church Bell Ringers, Bolton, UK
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to change the screen options to moving ringers | View | 02:30 | 30-Mar-2020 |
| 2 | How to start/stop ringing and to join in using the keyboard | View | 05:06 | 30-Mar-2020 |
| 3 | Feature, how to change the number of ringers and the speed of ringing | View | 04:37 | 1-Apr-2020 |
| 4 | How to ring in rounds on 6 and use the graph to check how accurate you are. | View | 06:48 | 2-Apr-2020 |
| 5 | Ringing rounds purely by listening (helping you develop your listening skills whilst ringing in rounds). | View | &:05 | 3-Apr-2020 |
| 6 | Ropesight, looking for the last bell down with 3, r and 5 bells | View | 08:49 | 4-Apr-2020 |
| 7 | Leading by listening and keeping the handstroke gap open. | View | 05:52 | 6-Apr-2020 |
| 8 | Practise leading and finding the last bell down Also hone your listening skills to lead with an open handstroke lead. | View | 08:04 | 7-Apr-2020 |
| 9 | Further leading off the last bell down, also how to create a method | View | 08:40 | 8-Apr-2020 |
| 10 | Feature, how to change the sound of the bells on Abel. | View | 03:51 | 10-Apr-2020 |
| 11 | Feature, Abel can count your place for you! | View | 03:45 | 13-Apr-2020 |
| 12 | In this video, we are starting an exercise to prepare for plain hunting. We are looking at what happens to the treble in the method Bastow Doubles. | View | 10:03 | 14-Apr-2020 |
| 13.1 | Call changes up | View | 08:41 | 15-Apr-2020 |
| 13.2 | Call changes down | View | 08:03 | 15-Apr-2020 |
| 13.3 | Cal changes Bolton style | View | 07:42 | 15-Apr-2020 |
| 14 | Further developing our ropesight making 2nds and leading [By following the treble in a method called Bastow Little Bob minor. Random bobs are added so that you don’t memorise the bell sequence!] | View | 06:23 | 16-Apr-2020 |
| 14 | Five listening exercises for striking | View | 05:50 | 17-Apr-2020 |
| 15 | Ringing in 6th place covering to Stedman Doubles | View | 08:56 | 20-Apr-2020 |
| 16 | Finding the pair of bells which are dodging at the back [for developing ropesight for covering]. | View | 09:53 | 21-Apr-2020 |
| 17 | More practice at finding the last bell down and spotting the pairs of bells dodging at the back. | View | 03:56 | 22-Apr-2020 |
| 18 | Develop your ropesight looking at the handstroke | View | 08:28 | 23-Apr-2020 |
| 19 | How to develop ropesight looking at the backstroke | View | 03:47 | 24-Apr-2020 |
| 20 | Ropesight at handstroke and backstroke with dodging bells | View | 4:59 | 30-Apr-2020 |
| 21 | Plain Hunting to thirds place using the method Cloister Doubles [This video follows on from Videos 12 and 14.] | View | 10:09 | 4-May-2020 |
| — | Ropesight hunting down to the front with bob doubles – This video looks at ropesight whilst hunting down to the front, with the ringers highlighted whom the treble follows and are then greyed out. | View | 05:04 | 10-May-2020 |
ART - Handbell Tutorials
Helen McGregor and Peter Bevis
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Hunt 1-2 Position – Plain Hunt Minor being rung on handbells. Watch the ringer on the left ring the 1-2 or coursing position on the trebles. | View | 00:55 | 12-May-2020 |
| 2 | Plain Hunt 3-4 Position – Plain Hunt Minor being rung on handbells. Watch the ringer in the middle ring the 3-4 opooisites position. | View | 00:55 | 12-May-2020 |
| 3 | Plain Hunt 2-3 Position – Plain Hunt Minor being rung on handbells. Watch the ringer in the middle ring the 2-3 position on 3-4. Note that the ringing does not start in rounds. | View | 00:58 | 12-May-2020 |
| 4 | Setting up Abel for handbells – Plain Hunt on 1-2. Setting up Abel to ring handbells. Introducing the 1-2 or coursing position. | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
| 5 | Setting up Abel for handbells – Plain Bob Minor. Setting up Abel to ring handbells. Introducing the 3-4 (or opposites) and 2-3 positions and linking them to ring Plain Bob Minor. | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
ART - Abel Tutorials
Roger Booth
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting Started – Getting started with Abel ringing simulator. How to ring rounds. | View | 05:20 | 20-Apr-2020 |
| 2 | How accurate is my striking? – Using the ‘Review Striking’ window in Abel | View | 04:33 | 16-Apr-2020 |
| 3 | Help, I can’t hear my bell! – Starting with rounds on three and then explaining the open-handstroke lead and how to count your place, using the Abel simulator software. | View | 05:56 | 19-Apr-2020 |
| 4 | Call Changes – An explantion of the theory of call-changes and how to practice ringing and calling them on Abel simulator software. | View | 09:55 | 24-Apr-2020 |
| 5 | Covering by listening – How to use Abel to practise covering by listening. There is a companion video about covering using ropesight | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
| 6 | Covering by watching to develop ropesight – Exercises on Abel to develop ropesight – covering by watching | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
ART - Webinars
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to learn a method – Tom Hinks 1. The blue line 2. Place bells 3. Ringing jargon 4. Ringing by the treble 5. Method structure – place notation and the grid | View | 32:42 | 24-Apr-2020 |
| 2 | Simple touches of Spliced -Simon Linford – Composing practice night touches /How to put together simple touches of Spliced on 6 and 8 bells. | View | 28:07 | 30-Apr-2020 |
| 3 | What is a Bob? An introduction to Calls – Simong Linford – Why? What?? When??? How????/This is an inductory webinar on calls by Simon Linford | View | 23:24 | 4-May-2020 |
| 4 | Introduction to handbell ringing – Tom Hinks | View | 34:07 | 7-May-2020 |
| 5 | LtR Level 2 from rounds to changes – What skills are required to successfully move from rounds to changes? An introduction to Learning the Ropes Level 2. | View | 2:24 | 28-May-2020 |
| 6 | LtR Level 2 listening and leading – Learning how to listen to your bell by counting your place | View | 4:58 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| 7 | LtR Level 1 – Chiming a bell | View | 0:49 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| 8 | LtR Level 1 – Ringing a bell up | View | 14:50 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| 9 | LtR Level 1 – Ringing a bell down | View | 1:08 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| 10 | LtR Level 1 – Introduction to ringing up in peal | View | 6:10 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| 11 | LtR Level 2 Call changes | View | 4:45 | 3-Jun-2020 |
| 12 | Using Ringing Room with Zoom | View | 9:39 | 28-Oct-2020 |
| 13 | Getting started with Zoom | View | 7:24 | 28-Oct-2020 |
Lewisham District Training
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to learn a method – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on Saturday 18th April 2020. The session focuses on ‘how to learn a method’; we explore what a blue line is, how to divide up method learning into manageable chunks and ways of using method structure to help support your understanding of the method. There are also some lessons from educational and sports psychology thrown in for good measure. | View | 32:42 | 18-Apr-2020 |
| 2 | An introduction to handbell ringing – This is a recording of a webinar delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on Saturday 18th April 2020. The session focuses on change ringing on handbells, introducing the three basic positions for plain hunt on six bells and explaining how these can be used to ring a plain course of Plain Bob Minor on 1-2. | View | 34:07 | 18-Apr-2020 |
| 3 | Calling simple touches – This is a recording of a webinar delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on Saturday 11th April 2020. The session focuses on calling simple touches, looking at the basics of saying ‘go’, ‘that’s all’ and ‘stand’ through to calling touches of Plain Bob Doubles, Plain Bob Minor and Grandsire Doubles. There are also some helpful resources discussed at the end. | View | 39:05 | 11-Apr-2020 |
| 4 | Listening Skills part 1 – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 2nd May. The session focused on listening skills on six and eight bells, using sound clips from Abel ringing simulator with errors to identify from one or two bells in each row. | View | 32:49 | 2-May-2020 |
| 5 | Listening exercises – easy – This 10 minute training video has a series of listening exercises for bellringers to practise identifying errors in six-bell ringing. In this ‘easy’ level video, the errors are fairly significant until the last couple of minutes, and involve one bell being wrong in the same way on both handstroke and backstroke. Later videos will include multiple bells being out of place on different strokes. | View | 10:02 | 6-May-2020 |
| 6 | Listening Skills part 2 – Listening skills for ringing call changes and methods – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 9th May. The session focused on listening skills on six bells, using sound clips from Abel ringing simulator to spot particular ‘feature rows’, pick out the position of different bells and follow the work of the treble. | View | 34:23 | 9-May-2020 |
| 7 | How do methods actually work? – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to change ringers in Kent and London on 16th May 2020. The session focuses on method structure, using a series of examples to demonstrate the principles behind method design, including symmetry, place notation, lead ends and grids. | View | 35:54 | 16-May-2020 |
| 8 | Listening Skills part 3 – Listening skills for ringing call changes and methods – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 23rd May 2020. The session involved some additional listening exercises to follow on from the first two listening skills sessions run earlier in May, using Abel ringing simulator. | View | 34:12 | 23-May-2020 |
| 9 | A beginners’ guide to coursing order – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on 30th May 2020. The session focuses on coursing order, looking at how course and after bells can be used to help method ringing, along with how to use coursing orders when conducting. | View | 34:31 | 30-May-2020 |
| 10 | An introduction to Ringing Room – This is a recording of the first part of a training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 6th June 2020. The session focuses on how to use ringingroom.com to practise change ringing with other bellringers remotely. | View | 13:09 | 6-Jun-2020 |
| 11 | New methods from old – This is a recording of a training session delivered to bellringers in London and Kent on Saturday 13th June. The session focuses on how to combine familiar sections of work from different methods to reduce learning time for new methods. Three techniques are covered: changing the frontwork in Doubles methods, having different lead end or half lead changes, and using above and below works. | View | 34:51 | 13-Jun-2020 |
| 12 | An introduction to striking competitions – This is a recording of a training session delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on 20th June 2020. The session focused on striking competitions, discussing tips for entering, hosting and judging competitions. | View | 35:56 | 20-Jun-2020 |
Cambridge District Bell Ringers
Cambridge District of the Ely Diocesan Association of Church Bell Ringers
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Lines – Stephen Burr looks at the humble method diagram – a system that allows thousands of unique methods to be displayed in a simple and understandable way. The talk looks at the anatomy of the method diagram, how different methods are classified (when is a ‘Surprise’ not a surprise?), what really happens at a bob, and what on Earth is place notation? | View | 1:02:33 | 8-Apr-2020 |
| 2 | Blue Lines (part 2) – Stephen Burr completes his look at ‘the humble blue line’, looking at method classes and how the blue line can be practically used when learning a method. | View | 59:04 | 10-Apr-2020 |
| 3 | Care of Bells and Belfries – Tom Ridgman talks about the care of bells and belfries | View | 1:10:51 | 14-Apr-2020 |
| 4 | Introduction to conducting – David Pipe | View | 1:25:52 | 17-Apr-2020 |
| 5 | Introduction to composition – Mark B Davies | View | 1:33:11 | 21-Apr-2000 |
| 6 | History of Ringing Simulators – David Bagley | View | 1:08:03 | 28-Apr-2020 |
| 7 | Odious Invective and Fabulous Falsities: Change-ringing in 18th century Cambridge – Gareth Davies [Also see (hear) his “Fun With Bells” podcast about his PhD study of bellringers pay and habits (at https://funwithbells.com/gareth-davies/) | View | 1:27:19 | 7-May-2020 |
St Martin's Guild
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Methodology – Demonstrating how to use the teaching app ‘Methodology’. Delivered by Adam Knight-Markiegi on Saturday 2 May 2020 | View | 3:27 | 3-May-2020 |
| 2 | Tadhill – An introduction to the Tadhill teaching resources. Presentation delivered by Clare McArdle on Saturday 2 May 2020. | View | 15:49 | 3-May-2020 |
| 3 | What is a bob? – Presentation delivered by Simon Linford on Wednesday 29 April 2020. Simon explores why we need bobs and explains there effect in numerous different methods. | View | 24:00 | 4-May-2020 |
| 4 | Connections: or alternatively, if you can ring that, then try this… – Presentation delivered by Phil Ramsbottom on Wednesday 6 May 2020. Phil highlights connections, or similarities, between various groups of methods. | View | 1:01:11 | 4-May-2020 |
| 5 | Walking through methods – Presentation delivered by Janet Horton on Saturday 9 May 2020. Janet discusses the benefits of spending time ‘walking through’ methods. | View | 32:46 | 11-May-2020 |
| 6 | How to learn methods – Presentation delivered by Phil Ramsbottom on Saturday 25 April 2020. Phil highlights different ways to learn methods, and encourages looking for similarities and differences with other methods. | View | 1:00:14 | 11-May-2020 |
| 7 | An Introduction to Place Notation – Presentation delivered by Janet Horton on Saturday 18 April 2020. Janet discusses the origins of the term ‘place notation’ and leads practical exercises to teach how to write methods out from place notation. | View | 46:46 | 11-May-2020 |
| 8 | An Introduction to Handbell Ringing – Presentation delivered by Simon Linford on 13 May 2020, in which he uncovers the mysteries associated with learning to ring handbells. | View | 53:38 | 14-May-2020 |
| 9 | Understanding the importance of passing the treble – Presentation delivered by Phil Ramsbottom on Saturday 16 May 2020. Phil explains how an awareness of the treble’s position will help you in method ringing. | View | 53:16 | 17-May-2020 |
| 11 | Conducting Doubles methods – Presentation delivered by Steve Horton on Wednesday 27 May 2020 focusing on how to conduct various Doubles methods and variations including Plain Bob, Grandsire and Reverse Canterbury. | View | 34:05 | 28-May-2020 |
| 12 | Understanding Call Changes – Presentation delivered by Clare McArdle on Saturday 30 May 2020. | View | 24:13 | 30-May-2020 |
| 13 | Understanding Stedman – Part 1 – resentation delivered by David Baverstock on Wednesday 10 June 2020. David highlights the key building blocks of Stedman as well as looking at the effect of bobs and singles. | View | 46:58 | 4-Jun-2020 |
| 14 | From Plain Bob to Place Bells – Presentation delivered by David Smith on Saturday 6 June 2020. | View | 58:14 | 8-Jun-2020 |
| 15 | What is a change? – Presentation delivered by David Smith on Saturday 23 May 2020. | View | 58:14 | 8-Jun-2020 |
| 16 | Understanding Stedman – Part 2 – Presentation delivered by Mark Eccleston on Wednesday 10 June 2020. Mark discusses how to go into the front the correct way; how to ring singles in Stedman Doubles; and how to call a simple touch of Stedman Triples. | View | 41:46 | 10-Jun-2020 |
| 17 | Tower Stewardship – Presentation delivered by Jonathan Townsend on Saturday 13 June 2020. Jonathan considers tower stewardship and health and safety as bands start to prepare for when tower-bell ringing may be permitted to restart. | View | 42:16 | 13-Jun-2020 |
Educational Videos
Tower Ringing
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Educational: Ringing Styles – A selection of different ringing styles (some of them exaggerated) to encourage discussion about handling. | View | 1:33 | 14-Aug-2019 |
| 2 | Educational: Ringing Up – Once through in real-time. Repeated in slow motion, with focus on coils. | View | 2:27 | 14-Aug-2019 |
| 3 | Educational: Ringing Down – Once through in real-time. Repeated in slow motion, with focus on coils. | View | 2:28 | 14-Aug-2019 |
| 4 | Educational: Plain Hunt on five – Plain Hunt on five, stood behind the treble. The video plays through twice, once at full speed, once slowed down. This video was created for the purposes of developing ropesight. | View | 1:36 | 1-Sep-2014 |
| 5 | Educational: Plain Bob Doubles (plain course) – A plain course of Plain Bob Doubles, stood behind the treble. The video plays through twice, once at full speed, once slowed down. This video was created for the purposes of developing ropesight. | View | 6:50 | 1-Sep-2014 |
| 6 | Educational: Plain Bob Doubles (touch) – A touch of Plain Bob Doubles, stood behind the treble. The video plays through twice, once at full speed, once slowed down. This video was created for the purposes of developing ropesight. | View | 8:53 | 1-Sep-2014 |
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
| Section | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Change Ringing: The Beautiful Intersection Between Math and Music, featuring Emily Russell | View | 18:20 | 31-Jul-2015 |
| Miscellaneous | The Mexican Wave Exercise, as created by George Lucas, part of the Kaleidoscope ringing system. Cut from Abel Simulator. A fun way to develop bell control, listening skills and concentration skills. Not true “Campanology”, but a fun step in that direction. | View | 1:51 | 3-Apr-2019 |
| Miscellaneous | This is a short film produced by Josh Partridge is designed to show you the technical side of things – rather than just an overview. | View | 8:00 | 12-May-2011 |
| Miscellaneous | Listening Skills part 2 – This time try to follow the path of the treble during the ringing. | View | 29:34 | 14-Apr-2020 |
Simbell
| Tutorial | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | SIMBELL Setup with ABEL Simulator Software | View | 11:54 | 17-Jan-2018 |
| B | SIMBELL Setup with Beltower Simulator Software | View | 5:20 | 12-Jan-2018 |
| C | SIMBELL Setup with Virtual Belfry Simulator Software | View | 11:21 | 6-Jan-2018 |
| D | Restoring Abel Menu Bars | View | 5:55 | 18-Mar-2020 |
| 1 | Practical Simulator Sessions – DODGING | View | 14:54 | 1-Jul-2020 |
| 2 | Practical Simulator Sessions – FOLLOWING | View | 3:10 | 2-Jul-2020 |
| 3 | Practical Simulator Sessions – STRIKING: Part 1 – Listening | View | 10:17 | 3-Jul-2020 |
| 4 | Practical Simulator Sessions – STRIKING: Part 2 – Speed | View | 21:57 | 5-Jul-2020 |
| 5 | Practical Simulator Sessions – ROPESIGHT | View | 13:20 | 7-Jul-2020 |
| 6 | Practical Simulator Sessions – Kaleidoscope | View | 12:45 | 9-Jul-2020 |
| 7 | Practical Simulator Sessions – Mexican Wave | View | 18:05 | 10-Jul-2020 |
| 8 | Practical Simulator Sessions – The Pull Off | View | 9:38 | 11-Jul-2020 |
| 9 | Practical Simulator Sessions – Using a Footswitch | View | 11:36 | 7-Aug-2020 |
| 10 | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 1 | View | 9:01 | 25-Jul-2020 |
| 11 | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 2 | View | 23:32 | 4-Aug-2020 |
| 12 | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 3 – Part 1/2 | View | 16:39 | 1-Sep-2020 |
| 13 | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 3 – Part 2/2 | View | 17:55 | 15-Sep-2020 |
| 14 | Virtual Belfry Micro Lessons – Adding Simple Notation | View | 5:18 | 8-Oct-2020 |
| 15 | Virtual Belfry Micro Lessons – Adding Methods the easy way | View | 10:56 | 9-Sep-2020 |
| 16 | Virtual Belfry Micro Lessons – Simple Compositions | View | 16:03 | 13-Oct-2020 |
All
| Section | Description | URL | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abel Tutorials | How to change the screen options to moving ringers | View | 02:30 | 30-Mar-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | How to start/stop ringing and to join in using the keyboard | View | 05:06 | 30-Mar-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Feature, how to change the number of ringers and the speed of ringing | View | 04:37 | 1-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | How to ring in rounds on 6 and use the graph to check how accurate you are. | View | 06:48 | 2-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Ringing rounds purely by listening (helping you develop your listening skills whilst ringing in rounds). | View | &:05 | 3-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Ropesight, looking for the last bell down with 3, r and 5 bells | View | 08:49 | 4-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Leading by listening and keeping the handstroke gap open. | View | 05:52 | 6-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Practise leading and finding the last bell down Also hone your listening skills to lead with an open handstroke lead. | View | 08:04 | 7-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Further leading off the last bell down, also how to create a method | View | 08:40 | 8-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Feature, how to change the sound of the bells on Abel. | View | 03:51 | 10-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Feature, Abel can count your place for you! | View | 03:45 | 13-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | In this video, we are starting an exercise to prepare for plain hunting. We are looking at what happens to the treble in the method Bastow Doubles. | View | 10:03 | 14-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Call changes up | View | 08:41 | 15-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Call changes down | View | 08:03 | 15-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Cal changes Bolton style | View | 07:42 | 15-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Further developing our ropesight making 2nds and leading [By following the treble in a method called Bastow Little Bob minor. Random bobs are added so that you don’t memorise the bell sequence!] | View | 06:23 | 16-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Five listening exercises for striking | View | 05:50 | 17-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Ringing in 6th place covering to Stedman Doubles | View | 08:56 | 20-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Finding the pair of bells which are dodging at the back [for developing ropesight for covering]. | View | 09:53 | 21-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | More practice at finding the last bell down and spotting the pairs of bells dodging at the back. | View | 03:56 | 22-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Develop your ropesight looking at the handstroke | View | 08:28 | 23-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | How to develop ropesight looking at the backstroke | View | 03:47 | 24-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Ropesight at handstroke and backstroke with dodging bells | View | 4:59 | 30-Apr-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Plain Hunting to thirds place using the method Cloister Doubles [This video follows on from Videos 12 and 14.] | View | 10:09 | 4-May-2020 |
| Abel Tutorials | Ropesight hunting down to the front with bob doubles – This video looks at ropesight whilst hunting down to the front, with the ringers highlighted whom the treble follows and are then greyed out. | View | 05:04 | 10-May-2020 |
| Art Handbell | Plain Hunt 1-2 Position – Plain Hunt Minor being rung on handbells. Watch the ringer on the left ring the 1-2 or coursing position on the trebles. | View | 00:55 | 12-May-2020 |
| Art Handbell | Plain Hunt 3-4 Position – Plain Hunt Minor being rung on handbells. Watch the ringer in the middle ring the 3-4 opooisites position. | View | 00:55 | 12-May-2020 |
| Art Handbell | Plain Hunt 2-3 Position – Plain Hunt Minor being rung on handbells. Watch the ringer in the middle ring the 2-3 position on 3-4. Note that the ringing does not start in rounds. | View | 00:58 | 12-May-2020 |
| Art Abel | Getting Started – Getting started with Abel ringing simulator. How to ring rounds. | View | 05:20 | 20-Apr-2020 |
| Art Abel | How accurate is my striking? – Using the ‘Review Striking’ window in Abel | View | 04:33 | 16-Apr-2020 |
| Art Abel | Help, I can’t hear my bell! – Starting with rounds on three and then explaining the open-handstroke lead and how to count your place, using the Abel simulator software. | View | 05:56 | 19-Apr-2020 |
| Art Abel | Call Changes – An explantion of the theory of call-changes and how to practice ringing and calling them on Abel simulator software. | View | 09:55 | 24-Apr-2020 |
| Art Abel | Covering by listening – How to use Abel to practise covering by listening. There is a companion video about covering using ropesight | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
| Art Abel | Covering by watching to develop ropesight – Exercises on Abel to develop ropesight – covering by watching | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
| Art Handbell | Setting up Abel for handbells – Plain Hunt on 1-2. Setting up Abel to ring handbells. Introducing the 1-2 or coursing position. | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
| Art Handbell | Setting up Abel for handbells – Plain Bob Minor. Setting up Abel to ring handbells. Introducing the 3-4 (or opposites) and 2-3 positions and linking them to ring Plain Bob Minor. | View | 03:47 | 12-May-2020 |
| ART Webinars | How to learn a method – Tom Hinks 1. The blue line 2. Place bells 3. Ringing jargon 4. Ringing by the treble 5. Method structure – place notation and the grid | View | 32:42 | 24-Apr-2020 |
| ART Webinars | Simple touches of Spliced -Simon Linford – Composing practice night touches /How to put together simple touches of Spliced on 6 and 8 bells. | View | 28:07 | 30-Apr-2020 |
| ART Webinars | What is a Bob? An introduction to Calls – Simong Linford – Why? What?? When??? How????/This is an inductory webinar on calls by Simon Linford | View | 23:24 | 4-May-2020 |
| ART Webinars | Introduction to handbell ringing – Tom Hinks | View | 34:07 | 7-May-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | How to learn a method – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on Saturday 18th April 2020. The session focuses on ‘how to learn a method’; we explore what a blue line is, how to divide up method learning into manageable chunks and ways of using method structure to help support your understanding of the method. There are also some lessons from educational and sports psychology thrown in for good measure. | View | 32:42 | 18-Apr-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | An introduction to handbell ringing – This is a recording of a webinar delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on Saturday 18th April 2020. The session focuses on change ringing on handbells, introducing the three basic positions for plain hunt on six bells and explaining how these can be used to ring a plain course of Plain Bob Minor on 1-2. | View | 34:07 | 18-Apr-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | Calling simple touches – This is a recording of a webinar delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on Saturday 11th April 2020. The session focuses on calling simple touches, looking at the basics of saying ‘go’, ‘that’s all’ and ‘stand’ through to calling touches of Plain Bob Doubles, Plain Bob Minor and Grandsire Doubles. There are also some helpful resources discussed at the end. | View | 39:05 | 11-Apr-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | Listening Skills part 1 – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 2nd May. The session focused on listening skills on six and eight bells, using sound clips from Abel ringing simulator with errors to identify from one or two bells in each row. | View | 32:49 | 2-May-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | Listening exercises – easy – This 10 minute training video has a series of listening exercises for bellringers to practise identifying errors in six-bell ringing. In this ‘easy’ level video, the errors are fairly significant until the last couple of minutes, and involve one bell being wrong in the same way on both handstroke and backstroke. Later videos will include multiple bells being out of place on different strokes. | View | 10:02 | 6-May-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | Listening Skills part 2 – Listening skills for ringing call changes and methods – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 9th May. The session focused on listening skills on six bells, using sound clips from Abel ringing simulator to spot particular ‘feature rows’, pick out the position of different bells and follow the work of the treble. | View | 34:23 | 9-May-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | How do methods actually work? – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to change ringers in Kent and London on 16th May 2020. The session focuses on method structure, using a series of examples to demonstrate the principles behind method design, including symmetry, place notation, lead ends and grids. | View | 35:54 | 16-May-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | Listening Skills part 3 – Listening skills for ringing call changes and methods – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 23rd May 2020. The session involved some additional listening exercises to follow on from the first two listening skills sessions run earlier in May, using Abel ringing simulator. | View | 34:12 | 23-May-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | A beginners’ guide to coursing order – This is a recording of an online training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on 30th May 2020. The session focuses on coursing order, looking at how course and after bells can be used to help method ringing, along with how to use coursing orders when conducting. | View | 34:31 | 30-May-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | An introduction to Ringing Room – This is a recording of the first part of a training session delivered to bellringers in Kent and London on Saturday 6th June 2020. The session focuses on how to use ringingroom.com to practise change ringing with other bellringers remotely. | View | 13:09 | 6-Jun-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | New methods from old – This is a recording of a training session delivered to bellringers in London and Kent on Saturday 13th June. The session focuses on how to combine familiar sections of work from different methods to reduce learning time for new methods. Three techniques are covered: changing the frontwork in Doubles methods, having different lead end or half lead changes, and using above and below works. | View | 34:51 | 13-Jun-2020 |
| Lewisham District Training | An introduction to striking competitions – This is a recording of a training session delivered to change ringers in London and Kent on 20th June 2020. The session focused on striking competitions, discussing tips for entering, hosting and judging competitions. | View | 35:56 | 20-Jun-2020 |
| Cambridge District Bell Ringers | Blue Lines – Stephen Burr looks at the humble method diagram – a system that allows thousands of unique methods to be displayed in a simple and understandable way. The talk looks at the anatomy of the method diagram, how different methods are classified (when is a ‘Surprise’ not a surprise?), what really happens at a bob, and what on Earth is place notation? | View | 1:02:33 | 8-Apr-2020 |
| Cambridge District Bell Ringers | Blue Lines (part 2) – Stephen Burr completes his look at ‘the humble blue line’, looking at method classes and how the blue line can be practically used when learning a method. | View | 59:04 | 10-Apr-2020 |
| Cambridge District Bell Ringers | Care of Bells and Belfries – Tom Ridgman talks about the care of bells and belfries | View | 1:10:51 | 14-Apr-2020 |
| Cambridge District Bell Ringers | Introduction to conducting – David Pipe | View | 1:25:52 | 17-Apr-2020 |
| Cambridge District Bell Ringers | Introduction to composition – Mark B Davies | View | 1:33:11 | 21-Apr-2000 |
| Cambridge District Bell Ringers | History of Ringing Simulators – David Bagley | View | 1:08:03 | 28-Apr-2020 |
| Cambridge District Bell Ringers | Odious Invective and Fabulous Falsities: Change-ringing in 18th century Cambridge – Gareth Davies [Also see (hear) his “Fun With Bells” podcast about his PhD study of bellringers pay and habits (at https://funwithbells.com/gareth-davies/) | View | 1:27:19 | 7-May-2020 |
| Egg99Rhubarb Educational Videos | Educational: Ringing Styles – A selection of different ringing styles (some of them exaggerated) to encourage discussion about handling. | View | 1:33 | 14-Aug-2019 |
| Egg99Rhubarb Educational Videos | Educational: Ringing Up – Once through in real-time. Repeated in slow motion, with focus on coils. | View | 2:27 | 14-Aug-2019 |
| Egg99Rhubarb Educational Videos | Educational: Ringing Down – Once through in real-time. Repeated in slow motion, with focus on coils. | View | 2:28 | 14-Aug-2019 |
| Egg99Rhubarb Educational Videos | Educational: Plain Hunt on five – Plain Hunt on five, stood behind the treble. The video plays through twice, once at full speed, once slowed down. This video was created for the purposes of developing ropesight. | View | 1:36 | 1-Sep-2014 |
| Egg99Rhubarb Educational Videos | Educational: Plain Bob Doubles (plain course) – A plain course of Plain Bob Doubles, stood behind the treble. The video plays through twice, once at full speed, once slowed down. This video was created for the purposes of developing ropesight. | View | 6:50 | 1-Sep-2014 |
| Egg99Rhubarb Educational Videos | Educational: Plain Bob Doubles (touch) – A touch of Plain Bob Doubles, stood behind the treble. The video plays through twice, once at full speed, once slowed down. This video was created for the purposes of developing ropesight. | View | 8:53 | 1-Sep-2014 |
| Miscellaneous | Change Ringing: The Beautiful Intersection Between Math and Music, featuring Emily Russell | View | 18:20 | 31-Jul-2015 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Methodology – Demonstrating how to use the teaching app ‘Methodology’. Delivered by Adam Knight-Markiegi on Saturday 2 May 2020 | View | 3:27 | 3-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Tadhill – An introduction to the Tadhill teaching resources. Presentation delivered by Clare McArdle on Saturday 2 May 2020. | View | 15:49 | 3-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | What is a bob? – Presentation delivered by Simon Linford on Wednesday 29 April 2020. Simon explores why we need bobs and explains there effect in numerous different methods. | View | 24:00 | 4-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Connections: or alternatively, if you can ring that, then try this… – Presentation delivered by Phil Ramsbottom on Wednesday 6 May 2020. Phil highlights connections, or similarities, between various groups of methods. | View | 1:01:11 | 4-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Walking through methods – Presentation delivered by Janet Horton on Saturday 9 May 2020. Janet discusses the benefits of spending time ‘walking through’ methods. | View | 32:46 | 11-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | How to learn methods – Presentation delivered by Phil Ramsbottom on Saturday 25 April 2020. Phil highlights different ways to learn methods, and encourages looking for similarities and differences with other methods. | View | 1:00:14 | 11-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | An Introduction to Place Notation – Presentation delivered by Janet Horton on Saturday 18 April 2020. Janet discusses the origins of the term ‘place notation’ and leads practical exercises to teach how to write methods out from place notation. | View | 46:46 | 11-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | An Introduction to Handbell Ringing – Presentation delivered by Simon Linford on 13 May 2020, in which he uncovers the mysteries associated with learning to ring handbells. | View | 53:38 | 14-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Understanding the importance of passing the treble – Presentation delivered by Phil Ramsbottom on Saturday 16 May 2020. Phil explains how an awareness of the treble’s position will help you in method ringing. | View | 53:16 | 17-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Conducting Doubles methods – Presentation delivered by Steve Horton on Wednesday 27 May 2020 focusing on how to conduct various Doubles methods and variations including Plain Bob, Grandsire and Reverse Canterbury. | View | 34:05 | 28-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Understanding Call Changes – Presentation delivered by Clare McArdle on Saturday 30 May 2020. | View | 24:13 | 30-May-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Understanding Stedman – Part 1 – resentation delivered by David Baverstock on Wednesday 10 June 2020. David highlights the key building blocks of Stedman as well as looking at the effect of bobs and singles. | View | 46:58 | 4-Jun-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | From Plain Bob to Place Bells – Presentation delivered by David Smith on Saturday 6 June 2020. | View | 58:14 | 8-Jun-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | What is a change? – Presentation delivered by David Smith on Saturday 23 May 2020. | View | 58:14 | 8-Jun-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Understanding Stedman – Part 2 – Presentation delivered by Mark Eccleston on Wednesday 10 June 2020. Mark discusses how to go into the front the correct way; how to ring singles in Stedman Doubles; and how to call a simple touch of Stedman Triples. | View | 41:46 | 10-Jun-2020 |
| St Martin’s Guild | Tower Stewardship – Presentation delivered by Jonathan Townsend on Saturday 13 June 2020. Jonathan considers tower stewardship and health and safety as bands start to prepare for when tower-bell ringing may be permitted to restart. | View | 42:16 | 13-Jun-2020 |
| Ann Ross | Call Changes – Theory for ringing call changes. | View | 10:19 | 5-Oct-2014 |
| Ann Ross | Bob Doubles step by step – A film to help you learn the blue line of Plain Bob Doubles | View | 10:39 | 8-Sep-2014 |
| Badger’s Handbell Ringers | Plain Hunt video 1 – changes and how the bell moves in Plain Hunt (bell 3) | View | 4:16 | 9-Jul-2018 |
| Badger’s Handbell Ringers | Plain Hunt video 2 – the line, and moving ‘up’ and ‘down’ the places (treble bell) | View | 5:45 | 9-Jul-2018 |
| Badger’s Handbell Ringers | Plain Hunt video 3 – leading, lying, front, back, hunting (bell 2) | View | 5:26 | 9-Jul-2018 |
| Badger’s Handbell Ringers | Plain Hunt video 4 – structure and place notation | View | 7:04 | 1-Aug-2018 |
| Miscellaneous | The Mexican Wave Exercise, as created by George Lucas, part of the Kaleidoscope ringing system. Cut from Abel Simulator. A fun way to develop bell control, listening skills and concentration skills. Not true “Campanology”, but a fun step in that direction. | View | 1:51 | 3-Apr-2019 |
| Miscellaneous | This is a short film produced by Josh Partridge is designed to show you the technical side of things – rather than just an overview. | View | 8:00 | 12-May-2011 |
| ART Webinars | LtR Level 2 from rounds to changes – What skills are required to successfully move from rounds to changes? An introduction to Learning the Ropes Level 2. | View | 2:24 | 28-May-2020 |
| ART Webinars | LtR Level 2 listening and leading – Learning how to listen to your bell by counting your place | View | 4:58 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| ART Webinars | LtR Level 1 – Chiming a bell | View | 0:49 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| ART Webinars | LtR Level 1 – Ringing a bell up | View | 14:50 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| ART Webinars | LtR Level 1 – Ringing a bell down | View | 1:08 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| ART Webinars | LtR Level 1 – Introduction to ringing up in peal | View | 6:10 | 1-Jun-2020 |
| ART Webinars | LtR Level 2 Call changes | View | 4:45 | 3-Jun-2020 |
| Miscellaneous | Listening Skills part 2 – This time try to follow the path of the treble during the ringing. | View | 29:34 | 14-Apr-2020 |
| Simbell | SIMBELL Setup with ABEL Simulator Software | View | 11:54 | 17-Jan-2018 |
| Simbell | SIMBELL Setup with Beltower Simulator Software | View | 5:20 | 12-Jan-2018 |
| Simbell | SIMBELL Setup with Virtual Belfry Simulator Software | View | 11:21 | 6-Jan-2018 |
| Simbell | Restoring Abel Menu Bars | View | 5:55 | 18-Mar-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – DODGING | View | 14:54 | 1-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – FOLLOWING | View | 3:10 | 2-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – STRIKING: Part 1 – Listening | View | 10:17 | 3-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – STRIKING: Part 2 – Speed | View | 21:57 | 5-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – ROPESIGHT | View | 13:20 | 7-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – Kaleidoscope | View | 12:45 | 9-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – Mexican Wave | View | 18:05 | 10-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – The Pull Off | View | 9:38 | 11-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – Using a Footswitch | View | 11:36 | 7-Aug-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 1 | View | 9:01 | 25-Jul-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 2 | View | 23:32 | 4-Aug-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 3 – Part 1/2 | View | 16:39 | 1-Sep-2020 |
| Simbell | Practical Simulator Sessions – ART LTR 3 – Part 2/2 | View | 17:55 | 15-Sep-2020 |
| Simbell | Virtual Belfry Micro Lessons – Adding Simple Notation | View | 5:18 | 8-Oct-2020 |
| Simbell | Virtual Belfry Micro Lessons – Adding Methods the easy way | View | 10:56 | 9-Sep-2020 |
| Simbell | Virtual Belfry Micro Lessons – Simple Compositions | View | 16:03 | 13-Oct-2020 |
| ART Webinars | Using Ringing Room with Zoom | View | 9:39 | 28-Oct-2020 |
| ART Webinars | Getting started with Zoom | View | 7:24 | 28-Oct-2020 |