Joanne Iles

Great lesson makes thing fun and makes the mind wonder into new music and growth…

Bro I wish this was earlier in the course! I’ve always struggled with putting the individual quarters together and with being too dependent on playing through from the very beginning (i.e., if I mess up I have to start all over). I will definitely use this technique!

Thank you so much. This is going to be very helpful in both this course and my private lessons. Learning a rather tricky piece right now, but applied chaining and it’s actually coming together.

This is suddenly a really hard tune out of the blue! Good thing I can read sharps and naturals – otherwise it would be a total loss without even a sound bite as a guide. I will keep at it though. Your lessons are really awesome and I am learning a lot.

Neat…you sort of do that with piano, too, don’t you? Great stuff!

I like the chaining idea, especially as it relates to parts of a song. I tend to want to play the whole song without really paying attention to the parts. I find it easier to do with a song I am trying to learn rather than with plain scales.

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Good exercise!!! Good for intonation practice too.

That is awesome.

I’ve started using these techniques in my practice. Please consider doing a lesson on transposing to a minor key. I need some help with that one!

FiddleHed Group 1 Intermediate ( 3 members created during the first breakout group session) are practicing this tune, some suggested variants, and / eventually the variations with double stops, etc. It is quite fun and quite challenging! We are going to continue next week.
Thanks, Jason and team!!!!!

Just finished watching the video. Excellent suggestions! Even though I’ve been playing flute, piano for decades (teach and perform both), practicing does seem like ‘work’ sometimes, especially now when we can’t play with live people -although we’re starting to see a light at the end… Yay! Now I’m going to try them out.🎶😊

Great tone from that beautiful fiddle.

Jason, You are awesome, and you make learning fiddle fun, and this video made me smile. Timing is my biggest challenge, so I will try the metronome…. Thank you! 🙂

Awesomeness

Thanks so much!! Some of these things I’ve done, but not all! I love your lessons!!

Love all these suggestions! Have done a lot of them, but I need to practice playing things way over there in the minor key more.
I’m sure you talk about this somewhere else, but I also love to swing the beat when I’m trying to wrap my head around a new tune… sometimes I just like them better that way anyway.

the klezmer way is totally cool

Hello! I just bumped into this workshop with 17 ways to practice the Jenny Lynn tune. Thank you and there’s even more stuff to look at. Great!
Rosalie Werback

Jason, I love the sound of the new tune “To You….” very hypnotic it reminds me a bit of Sigur Ros.

The clip of your song is quite nice. Thank goodness you moved through or around the roadblocks to its creation and completion.

Very, very pretty song ” To You (and everyone else wandering in the world.)”

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us.

Hi Jason, what a lovely relaxed vibe. It’s unmistakably you; light fiddle and drone/indian music drone box thingy. It’s a hit!