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Stedman is a commonly-rung wrong-place principle, ringable on odd stages. It has quite a simple structure, but remains difficult to compose and conduct. Despite this it has become popular, being rung to many peals each year.
- Principle
Changes in ringing that include all the working bells where...
- Doubles
Stage - the number of bells being rung to changes, excluding...
- Stedman - Quick Or Slow
When you leave the front, jump on the spot so your other...
- Conducting Stedman
The standard notation for Stedman Caters and Cinques is to...
- Principle
- The Blue Line
- Terminology
- Learning The Blue Line
- The Slow Work
- The Quick Work
As with all methods, learning the method involves learning a picture of the blue line. (The term ‘blue line’ comes from an early booklet of commonly rung methods where, for each method, a blue line was drawn through the path of one of the working bells). Below, I have written out all the rows of a plain course of Stedman Doubles, and coloured in be...
After a brief look at the blue line for Stedman you will see that it is considerably more complicated, and hence more difficult to learn, than Grandsire or Plain Bob. So, to help with learning the shape of the blue line, it is normally thought of in “chunks” of work that can be named and learned separately. This practice will be common with learnin...
In words the method can be described (for bell 4) as follows: one blow in 5th places then back to 4ths and go down; make 3rds place as you go in Slow; complete the Slow work; leave the Slow work making 3rds place on the way out; double dodge in 4-5 up then two blows in 5ths; double dodge in 4-5 down and go down; in and out Quick; double dodge in 4-...
As shown in the annotated plain course above, the Slow work can be described in words as follows: make 3rds on the way in; first whole turn; make 3rds; first half turn; make 3rds; second (or last) half turn; make 3rds; last whole turn; make 3rds on the way out.
This is much easier and can be described in words as follows: hunt straight in; lead a whole pull Right (ie Handstroke then Backstroke); hunt straight out (to 4-5). Some useful tips. A useful tip is to learn which blows are at Handstroke and which are at Backstroke, particularly for the whole turns. You can work this out by looking again at the Pla...
Before we look at ringing Stedman on an even number of bells, let's just recap the basics of Stedman, as rung on an odd number of bells. Then we will look at applying this knowledge to find our what happens on an even number of bells. Stedman is a principle, so there is no hunt bell.
Stedman consists of alternating right and wrong hunting on the front three. Every six blows, the front three bells switch from right hunting to wrong hunting or vice versa. Since plain hunt on three (right or wrong) takes six rows, the basic unit of Stedman is called a "six".
What is Stedman? Stedman is not a method, it is a principle – the treble does the same work as the other working bells. It extends easily to ringing on higher numbers and offers opportunities for many musical compositions. Ringing Stedman feels quite different from anything else you may have rung.
In Stedman doubles there is no Bob only a Single which only affects the bells in 4&5 Places. This is very different from Stedman at higher stages (Triples, Caters and Cinques) as these have both Bobs and Singles that are called at a different position in the six.
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But Stedman Doubles is different, and the calls come in the middle of a six. To understand this, let’s recap the structure of Stedman. It consists of blocks of six rows (which is why they are called ‘sixes’) and they are the nearest equivalent to the ‘leads’ in Treble-dominated methods.
