FiddleHed | rmccabe | Activity https://fiddlehed.com/members/rmccabe/activity/ Activity feed for rmccabe. Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:47:05 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4dbd2d854c69e66904ed6f920e5eb8f1 rmccabe posted a new activity comment https://fiddlehed.com/activity-streams/p/20932/#acomment-20936 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 23:57:37 -0700
Thank you for your encouragement and pointers on bowing technique. I’ll certainly try them.
    In reply to - Jocelyn Martens started the topic Lilting Banshee - with feedback in the forum Student Videos Reitha shared a great video for this tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5HhyPcgUdc She reached out for some feedback and had a few points of focus: Speed and bow sliding on E string making painful shrill https://www.loom.com/share/036f8c14e2bb433a9214b346e1568c0d?sid=e3c219f8-05e6-423a-a857-f02d827e93de Here's various Fiddlehed posts of Jason's related to these topics aswell: https://fiddlehed.com/fiddle-questions/how-can-i-make-the-e-string-on-the-fiddle-sound-less-screechy/ https://fiddlehed.com/blog/slow-down-to-speed-up/ Playing faster (taken from Fiddle Questions section under Support tab) The take-home message of a lot of these lessons: play it slow in order to play it fast. Don’t be in a hurry, both in terms of the tempo as well as your progress as a music student. 🐸 https://fiddlehed.com/blog/i-cant-fiddle-fast-enough/ https://fiddlehed.com/fiddle-questions/how-can-i-improve-my-fast-playing/ https://fiddlehed.com/fiddle-questions/how-to-play-faster-on-ballydesmond-polka/ https://fiddlehed.com/fiddle-questions/how-do-you-play-faster-while-still-sounding-good/ ]]>