Place Notation:
7.1.7.1.7.1.7; 127, Bob 147, Single 12347.
Grid:
Diagram: Plain Bob Triples, plain lead, change-rows and grid.
Goals
Goals and learning approach
What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.
Ringing by structure
Get going:.
Use whatever learning approach you like most to acquire enough knowledge to ring a plain course.
Ring a few and see what aspects of the method spring out, and study these.
Practice until courses and simple touches are ringable.
Performance Level
If you are wishing to achieve long touches, quarters, or peals:
start with the "get going" as above, add in the bits that are natural to you.
Study the Double Place Bell sequences, and the lines.
Practice a lot.
Achieve some
performances .
Method Mastery Level
It is unusual for a band to wish to achieve
mastery
in a method like Plain Bob Triples.
Learning
Learning NAME Delight Minor.
The Rules
Plain Bob Triples - the rules
Ring Plain Hunting until the treble leads.
When the treble leads, 2nds and 7ths places are made, and the bells in 3-4 and in 5-6 dodge.
Double Blue Lines 1-2
Double Blue Lines
The Double Blue Lines give a useful overview of the method.
Plain Bob Triples, 1-2
Diagram: Plain Bob Triples, 1-2.
2-3
Plain Bob Triples, 2-3 Pattern (Coursing Pair)
Diagram: Plain Bob Triples, 2-3.
3-4
Plain Bob Triples, 3-4 and 5-6 Pairs
Diagram: Plain Bob Triples, 3-4 and 5-6.
4-5
Plain Bob Triples, 4-5 Pattern
Diagram: Plain Bob Triples, 4-5.
Ringing
Ringing Plain Bob Triples.
Apart from the wierdness of ringing on odd numbers where lead and lie do not line up, Plain Bob Triples can be rung as an extension of Plain Bob Minor
Calls
Bobs and Singles.
As per Plain Bob.
Touches
Touches of Plain Bob Triples.
Complib has 724 touches (as at 30 October 2023) for Plain Bob Triples.