Friends – Activity – Debbie Hill

jason kleinberg wrote a new post 6 years, 9 months ago

A good rule of thumb is to play everything at least twice on the fiddle: scales, exercises, melodic phrases, and full tunes.

Notice what happens the second time through

Do your hands relax a bit?
Can […]

jason kleinberg wrote a new post 6 years, 9 months ago

The better you know your scales, the more quickly you can pick up tunes. Scales don’t have to be torture. There’s an art to making them fun.

Practice them along with tunes that use that scale.

Simply a […]

jason kleinberg replied 4 years, 6 months ago

good to hear that Rob.

jason kleinberg wrote a new post 6 years, 9 months ago

Pop song in G# Minor | Intermediate

Here’s a fiddle cover of “Old Town Road,”a hip-hop country song by Little Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

It’s the debut performance by KittyFiddler, a strange new […]

jason kleinberg wrote a new post 6 years, 10 months ago

I Can't Fiddle Fast Enough! “I can’t play it fast enough! How can I speed up this tune to the right speed? Will I EVER be able to do it?” Before we get into how to play faster, I want to ask you […]

jason kleinberg wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

The Power Of Adding Variation On The Endless Plateau So you’ve learned the fiddle and can now play a bunch of tunes. Do you feel like you’ve reached a plateau with your playing? Does it seem like […]

jason kleinberg wrote a new post 7 years, 3 months ago

Why do you practice the fiddle? What do you hope to achieve? Do you want to be able to play a certain tune? Or do you want to be able to play with people? Do you see a vision of yourself doing something with music […]

Amy replied 3 years, 9 months ago

Every practice isn’t going to be great or even good. However, you are actually learning. It comes as little surprises for me. Holding the bow; I struggled just trying to hold it properly to rosin. The struggle to hold it properly and also be able to move it sort of to my will lasted about 4 days. Then, half way dreading the struggle, I started to practice bowing when I realized I had tightened the hair and started to practice with no struggle. WOW. How tight is just right? Sweatsweat. Then I started making small adjustments. Start at “my little finger”, start at same width as the bow. I finally just tightened it, then adjusted it til it sounded good and didn’t bounce. I AM THE MASTER OF MY BOW. Well we’re still in negotiations but I feel relaxed adjusting it. Same with shoulder rest and position. When it comes, it just feels natural and I become so very impressed with myself.

jason kleinberg wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for everything, no complaints whatsoever! Are you grateful? How often do you feel gratitude? It’s ThanksGiveMeMoreToEat day! The first thing thing most people think about when they hear the word “Thanksgiving” is […]

yurie wrote a new post 7 years, 7 months ago

Mary Had A Little Lamb – Fiddle Raga Here’s a fiddle raga performance of Mary Had A Little Lamb. What the heck is a fiddle raga? The short answer: it’s an improvisation based around a fiddle melody accompanied by […]

Lavonjohn replied 1 year, 8 months ago

I’m glad you are my teacher !

yurie wrote a new post 7 years, 7 months ago

Mary Had A Little Lamb – Five Fiddle Variation Performance Hey folks, Here’s a performance of Mary Had A Little Lamb in which I add five different types of fiddle variation on each pass of the tune: -Hoedown -Melodic […]

Jocelyn Martens replied 1 year, 9 months ago

Yes! What a refreshing approach to something simple, Thanks for recreating this 🙏🏿

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