Marg Sherringham

Sounds great Sally, that’s a tricky tune but you were on top of it! 🙂

That was really beautiful Kate, and a reminder to me that I have to stop procrastinating and start working on my vibrato, I don’t do it properly but I can see your hand knows what it’s doing. This tune has such a pretty melody and just when you think it can’t get any better, in comes the harmony. Great job, that was such a joy to listen to!

Sounds great Joanne! Such a lot for our brains to co-ordinate when playing the fiddle but you did it smoothly and naturally. Nice work with the 4th finger too. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

Kate, this is absolutely fantastic! Good on you, and glad you’re having fun with Strum Machine. I loved your playing especially the rolls, great Irish feel, beautiful intonation. Wow, blew me away!

What a great reworking of Humpty Dumpty, my Grandaughter would love this. Owen your playing is really strong and precise, I loved the embellishments too and a nice vibrato to finish. It’s so inspiring to see how everyone’s developing their fiddle playing, thanks for sharing. 🙂

Thanks Nancy, you’re very kind and I hope we’ll see some of your work soon too. The Matty Groves harmonies were written by Georgia Nettleton, I just experimented with layering the parts in and out and over. I don’t really know much about recording either, still have to learn how to mix and edit. Great to hear you’re writing for fiddle and cello, I…[Read more]

What a lovely,soulful sound, good on you Deb!

Thanks for your kind comments Nancy, I look forward to seeing your 1st video. The Fiddlehed community is very supportive and encouraging. 🙂

Great idea Twyla, you’re clearly enjoying the creative experience of improvising on the pentatonic scale. Sounding really cool, and yes ‘magical’ is a very good description I think. Thanks for sharing.:)

That was beautiful Joanne, I liked your drone idea too, and your double stops fitted perfectly.:)

Great job Seth, nice bow control and double stops.

Wow, that’s a strong sound you have there James, great playing! You’re inspiring us all to work on our double stops, I really struggle with them.I like how you play them and keep the flow of the tune going, that must have taken a lot of practice.:)

Great job Deb! I’m really impressed with how you maintain a consistent pressure on the bow playing long notes. That can be really hard to do, but your notes stayed sweet from one end of the bow to the other.:)

Sounds great Joanne, really funky with that backing and well played. Spot on the beat!:)

Rita, I finished watching your band’s concert video. So polished, you must all have worked very hard to put that together. Beautiful vocal harmonies, what a great thing to be able to sing so well. I think that would be very helpful for audiation as a fiddle player.
I hope the Oyster Crackers will soon be able to do live gigs again, I’m not sure of…[Read more]

Thanks for your kind comments Michael.

That’s a nice bit of fun Joanne and I like the joke…May the 4th be with you. Very good. 🙂

That was great Michael, we can see all the work you’ve done, there’s a lot to pull together and you’re doing it really well! Yep, we can all relate to the co-ordination of technical challenges you mentioned, but isn’t it such a good feeling when things come together? Then there’s the next new thing to layer in, or the next new tune, it’s always…[Read more]

Thanks Rita, I’m so happy I found this online community.

Thanks Kate, I was very nervous relying on my memory and hoping I could move through the variations smoothly. I can’t take credit for the ideas, they were from Jason’s Practice Journey replay, but I did enjoy the challenge! That’s great that you have Strum Machine now, it’s saved a lot of time for me, as I used to make all my own backings with…[Read more]