Pete Healy
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Active 5 months, 1 week ago-
Pete Healy replied to the topic The sweetness of Mary in the forum Student Videos 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Very nice phrasing, Debbie, and I really like your judicious use of double-stops (which I tend to over-use and am still learning how not to!). Your climbs into the higher positions are also inspiring! 🙂
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Pete Healy commented on the post, Practice Blocks 1 year, 2 months ago
I like this a lot – a LOT! My fiddle’s with a local luthier getting a new bridge, but I should get it back tomorrow (knock on wood), and I can’t wait to start using this approach!
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Pete Healy commented on the post, Play Slowly 1 year, 3 months ago
I think the “Play Slowly” is suitable for framing, for its message and its style! 🙂👍
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Pete Healy commented on the post, What's helped you the most on your fiddle journey? 1 year, 4 months ago
In terms of practice techniques, not just letting myself play slowly, but actually *savoring* the sound of playing slowly. And then with that, from the standpoint of emotional engagement, letting myself smile – sometimes even laugh – at those moments where I struggle (instead of getting frustrated and quitting).
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Pete Healy commented on the post, There's No Time Like Old-time 1 year, 6 months ago
By the way, you really should *categorize* this page so it’s easier to find and return to! (For now I’ve saved it as a Favorite, but that doesn’t help others who may never stumble across it!)
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Pete Healy commented on the post, There's No Time Like Old-time 1 year, 6 months ago
Fantastic article and examples! Thanks for a powerful Music History course in miniature!
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Pete Healy commented on the post, The Creative Act (of Fiddling) 1 year, 12 months ago
A fiddle lesson from a hospital waiting room. A life lesson. I’m so deeply happy to be part of this community. 🙂
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Pete Healy commented on the post, FiddleHed End-of-Year Review for 2022 2 years, 1 month ago
Thrilled to have become a FiddleHed early this year, just a few months after I started learning fiddle! What a fantastic community, guided by an amazing teacher in Jason! Really looking forward to going and growing as a FiddleHed in 2023. Happy New Year!
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Pete Healy commented on the post, Simple/complex/simple 2 years, 1 month ago
I’m barely one year in to fiddling and am thrilled at how this has reignited musical skills I learned nearly 50 years ago as a Music major, but never used in my career. (I’m recently retired.) So this lesson hits me deeply, and gives me yet another reason to be very thankful that I came across FiddleHed.
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Pete Healy commented on the post, The Goal of a Good Process 2 years, 2 months ago
Good lesson, but here’s a mundane question: How can I mark this lesson as Complete so the donut graphic for Mod 2.2 will show as 100%?
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Pete Healy commented on the post, Practice Loops 2 years, 4 months ago
Excellent lesson because small loops (or micro-practices) let me focus on better intonation and more efficient fingerings. Btw, I was going to bookmark and start using Tuning Exercises, but the link above just took me to what seems to be an unmaintained page.
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Pete Healy commented on the post, Playing Fiddle Backup On Girls Just Want To Have Fun 2 years, 5 months ago
Just read your email, “How To Sing And Play Backup” and couldn’t believe that the original “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” was in F#! Checked the official YT video on my keyboard and found it was true. Seems like such an UNidiomatic key for any of the instruments involved. I wonder if it was really done in F or G, then slid with the recording…[Read more]
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Pete Healy commented on the post, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 2 years, 5 months ago
Hey, back again because there’s some great call-and-response with a fiddle on Cyndi Lauper’s recording of the Country song, “Begging To You.” Fits perfectly with the “how to play on songs” theme!
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Pete Healy commented on the post, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 2 years, 5 months ago
Very cool! Yes, the mix of simple rhythms, chords and arpeggios, and short riffs really works well. And the “Norwegian Wood” interlude is frosting on the cake!
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Pete Healy posted an update 2 years, 6 months ago
Is there an Office Hour today? Trying to log on now using the invitation from one a few weeks ago, since I haven’t received an email specific to today (8/10) with log-in link.
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Pete Healy replied to the topic Breton Gavotte with Strum Machine in the forum Student Videos 2 years, 9 months ago
Wow, very nice! Just one suggestion re your equipment: Might be good to put your strum machine behind or farther away from your recording device, since the machine almost drowned out your playing at some points. But I really liked how you maintained the flow of the piece!
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Pete Healy replied to the topic Two fiddleheds are better than one in the forum Student Videos 2 years, 10 months ago
Very cool! Nice harmonies, beautiful setting!
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Pete Healy posted an update 2 years, 10 months ago
Inspired by our 2022 Spring Practice Challenge, yesterday I painted what I titled “Missing Fiddle” (photos attached, if I do this right…). Was at a “Cupcakes & Canvas”… -
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