Mike Reeve
@reevo
Active 4 years, 4 months ago-
jason kleinberg replied to the topic If I Were a Richman in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 11 months ago
Nice @joanneiles. I still have to the movie…
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
A FiddleHed subscriber named Michael made this violin. We’re giving it away in a contest. Click here to enter.
I’m taking requests for tunes. Other requests coming over the next few days: “Lark In The Morning” […]

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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Rigaudon in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Hey @sitka02,
Good tune, good tone. Where did you learn it?
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Hawaii FiddleHed Debut of Ebony the Fiddle in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Hey Forrest, sounds good. and nice work @sani.
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Learning Drunken Sailor in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Hey @zenith, Vivian sounds fearless!!!
I love the sea shanties. We’re doing a group lesson on “Leave Her Johnny Leave Her” this Wednesday: https://fiddlehed.com/community/group-lesson-home-page/This would be a good one to do in the future…thanks 🙏
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Fiddling around in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Thanks @elburns64 Sounds good 👍. If possible, post to YouTube so we can see it here. If not, no big deal.
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Hector the Hero in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Hey @gary524
This is be-you-tea-full. How did you make this?
What did you use for backing tracks? How did you add the reverb?
It would be fun other folks to get into this…Thanks!
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Brother Iz version): after 1 week in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Sounds awesome. Loving the tone you’ve been getting.
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Bound to Have a Little Fun! in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Hey @schottebwm,
Love this tune! Can’t believe I haven’t heard it before.
Where did you learn it?
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Irish Washerwoman – my first learned by ear only in the forum Student Videos 4 years, 12 months ago
Excellent! This is a challenging tune. I still stumble on the 3rd quarter of the B part when I play it fast…
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic The Butterfly (after 1 week) in the forum Student Videos 5 years ago
Yes! Love the tone you’re getting…
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years ago
The Fun Fiddle Practice Of Chaining
Here’s a practice technique called “Chaining”. The basic idea is to incrementally add to what you are practicing. You can slowly piece together notes to c […]-
Great lesson makes thing fun and makes the mind wonder into new music and growth…
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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!
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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.
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That’s awesome. Denise. Thanks for giving insights on your experience with this. Simple practise tools that we can get familiar with and utilize wherever 🙂 🎶
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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.
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Thanks for sharing, Catherine. Your motivation in the challenge is great to experience. Thanks for your interest in the program!
Simplifying more than I originally think or plan to always helps me with trickiness.
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Neat…you sort of do that with piano, too, don’t you? Great stuff!
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Hi Susieq, yes good point. Other instruments can work great with these types of exercises, like piano 🎹 Glad to hear you enjoy!
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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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Thanks for sharing these insights, Bill. Yea, a neat tool to utilize for deeper practise and gives a good alternate perspective to something in whole.
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years ago
When practicing something difficult, see if you can break it down into a series of small, intermediate steps.
I’ve been learning bluegrass solos from a book by a great fiddler named Annie Staninec. […]

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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Tennessee Waltz in the forum Student Videos 5 years ago
Just seeing this now @bluegrassgal. Thanks for sharing, and for the kind words…
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Angeline Baker, Speed Challenge in the forum Student Videos 5 years ago
So nice 🙂
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Here’s something fun you can do on the fiddle. Alternate between a constant note and other changing notes, always alternating back to open D. This is called a “pedal pattern”.
Here’s a basic pedal pat […]

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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Jenny Lynn (2 days in) in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 1 month ago
Hey @jameseke, good playing. Tone is full and you really hear the melody. It’ll be good to hear progress as you continue to practice this.
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
In this lesson, I demonstrate 17 ways to practice the tune Jenny Lynn. This will make your sessions fun and productive. You’ll learn the tune at a deep level as you improve various aspects of your […]

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That is awesome.
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Tanks 🤓
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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!
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Good idea @debhill
Here’s a quickie lesson on how to do it.
-Play a major key tune.
-Play its major scale.
-Play the minor (Aeolian) scale (lower the third, sixth, seventh steps)
-Sub out those notes as they fall in the tune.Have fun…
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Thanks for the help with the minor key transposition.
Mary
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Thanks for your help!
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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.
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Nice @sarahb,
I wanna hear what you guys come up with 🎻
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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.🎶😊
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Hey @hmk,
You can apply this creative practice approach to any instrument. Have fun 🕺🏾
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Great tone from that beautiful fiddle.
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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! 🙂
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Awesomeness
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Thanks so much!! Some of these things I’ve done, but not all! I love your lessons!!
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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
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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
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Last weekend I finished a recording session with my old friend Joe Rut. Overall, it went well. We did six tunes in about two and a half days. Three of these are long form “fiddle raga” pieces, while the other […]

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Jason, I love the sound of the new tune “To You….” very hypnotic it reminds me a bit of Sigur Ros.
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Thanks @joanneiles
I’m a big fan of Sigur Ros.
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The clip of your song is quite nice. Thank goodness you moved through or around the roadblocks to its creation and completion.
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Very, very pretty song ” To You (and everyone else wandering in the world.)”
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thanks Owen 🙂
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us.
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You’re welcome Grace 🙂
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Hi Jason, what a lovely relaxed vibe. It’s unmistakably you; light fiddle and drone/indian music drone box thingy. It’s a hit!
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Thanks @ear_eim_ear_eim 🙏
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
A FiddleHed named Malik asked “Can you explain for me what a G-Clef is?”
The fancy scroll with a tail that appears at the beginning of fiddle music is called the treble clef.
The other name for it is […]

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