How do you do slides on the fiddle?
Misha from Oregon: I hear even in basic tunes you sometimes slide a note or two. How do you do that? Very beginner question sorry!
Thanks to all who attended this office hours session and asked questions 🙏
Further learning and practice
- First off, I recommend that beginners do not slide. You want to train your fingers to precisely land on the right spot. Otherwise, sliding will become a crutch.
- Another pitfall of sliding to early is that you might not learn to play in tune.
- Slides
- Slides can be subtle or obvious
- Simple exercise: DL1-1-1-1 | {slide}D1-1-1-1
- Alternate between basic and variation, or between sliding and not sliding.
This micro-lesson is an excerpt from an office hours webinar I gave on June 17, 2020. View the entire live-stream with indexed questions here.
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