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Mike Reeve

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@reevo

Active 4 years, 4 months ago
Just hanging out, trying to make music. Happy to make friends. I also have a YouTube channel called Frank’s Fiddle, in case you want to stop by 🙂 View
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    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…
    What kind of mic is that?

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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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      Vera Algoet replied 4 years, 11 months ago

      Beautiful. Love the speed variation and the ornaments. I’ve been working on this tune. It’s kicking my a**, but getting better incrementally.

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      Misha replied 4 years, 11 months ago

      sounds lovely! love that fiddle and Tam Lin. Good luck everybody

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      Carl Sutherland replied 4 years, 11 months ago

      Amazing!

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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?
    This would also be a good tune to teach…

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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.
    We were just thinking of teaching this tune.

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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.
    This would be a fun tune for a lesson…🕺🏾

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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?
    Also, nice setting…and speed up 🏎

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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 […]

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      Virginia Dupew replied 4 years, 12 months ago

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

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      Kel replied 3 years, 6 months ago

      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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      Denise Spite replied 2 years, 7 months ago

      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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        Jocelyn Martens replied 2 years, 6 months ago

        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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      Catherine Whitwer replied 2 years, 6 months ago

      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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        Jocelyn Martens replied 2 years, 6 months ago

        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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      Susieq replied 2 years, 4 months ago

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

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        Jocelyn Martens replied 2 years, 4 months ago

        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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      Bill Kolshorn replied 2 years ago

      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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        Jocelyn Martens replied 2 years ago

        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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      tomr replied 5 years ago

      Check out the Whiskey Deaf Facebook page. Annie and
      John play every Thursday. You don’t need to have a Facebook
      account to watch the older shows.

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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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      crowbar47 replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      Good exercise!!! Good for intonation practice too.

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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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      Plormand replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      That is awesome.

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        jason kleinberg replied 4 years, 12 months ago

        Tanks 🤓

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      Debbie Hill replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      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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        jason kleinberg replied 4 years, 12 months ago

        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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          MaryReid replied 4 years, 12 months ago

          Thanks for the help with the minor key transposition.

          Mary

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          Debbie Hill replied 4 years, 12 months ago

          Thanks for your help!

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      sarahb replied 5 years ago

      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!!!!!

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        jason kleinberg replied 4 years, 12 months ago

        Nice @sarahb,

        I wanna hear what you guys come up with 🎻

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      Heidi Kurz replied 5 years ago

      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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        jason kleinberg replied 4 years, 12 months ago

        Hey @hmk,

        You can apply this creative practice approach to any instrument. Have fun 🕺🏾

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      MelissaRice replied 4 years, 12 months ago

      Great tone from that beautiful fiddle.

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      elburns64 replied 4 years, 12 months ago

      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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      jameseke replied 4 years, 12 months ago

      Awesomeness

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      Gailserene replied 4 years, 11 months ago

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

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      map_gurl replied 4 years, 11 months ago

      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.

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      Misha replied 4 years, 11 months ago

      the klezmer way is totally cool

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      Rosalie Werback replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago

      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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      Joanne Iles replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      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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        jason kleinberg replied 5 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks @joanneiles

        I’m a big fan of Sigur Ros.

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      Kvmceff replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      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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      Owen replied 5 years, 1 month ago

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

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        jason kleinberg replied 5 years, 1 month ago

        thanks Owen 🙂

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      Grace replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      Beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us.

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        jason kleinberg replied 5 years, 1 month ago

        You’re welcome Grace 🙂

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      Ear_eim replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      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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        jason kleinberg replied 5 years, 1 month ago

        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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