Call-and-response Exercises 2.6

Let’s play a game of call-and-response. This will help you to:

👂Develop your ear

🎸Play with others

💡Practice and play creatively

How this works

Listen to what I play
Play it back
Repeat the exercise until you can easily play back what you hear

If you find this useful, then go here for more games and exercises: Call-and-response Central.

Let’s play

Exercise 1: Low Fourth Finger

Exercise 2: Lucy Farr's

Exercise 3: B Flat Major Upper Octave

Exercise 4: House Of The Rising Sun

Exercise 5: Tunes Transposed To Bb Flat

Exercise 6: I-IV-V-IV Songs

Exercise 7: Done Gone

Practice variations

Instead of fiddling, sing what you hear

Being able to sing what you play will make you a better fiddler and musician.

Instead of fiddling, audiate what you hear

Audiation is the process of “hearing music in your head” or “mental practice”. You can harness this natural process to get better at the fiddle. Learn more in this lesson.

Call-and-response on your own

Alternate between singing and fiddling small tune phrases
Alternate between plucking and fiddling small tune phrases
Alternate between playing something in the low and high octave