Fiddle Chopping Lesson 3 – Basic Chord Chopping

This lesson, Naill Murphy covers basic fiddle chord chopping. This is an excerpt of the course…the full lesson available to fiddlevideo.com subscribers includes step by step instructions and multiple HD camera angles.

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Below are links to the rest of the fiddle chopping instructional series:

• Fiddle Chop Series Lesson 1 – Basic Chord Chopping
• Fiddle Chop Series Lesson 2 – The Double Chop
• Fiddle Chop Series Lesson 4 – Shuffle Chop (Without Chords)
• Fiddle Chop Series Lesson 5 – Shuffle Chop (With Chords)
• Fiddle Chop Series Lesson 6 – Advanced Chord Chopping
• Fiddle Chop Series Lesson 7 – Bass Line Chopping
• Fiddle Chop Series Lesson 8 – The Triple Chop

Here are a couple of videos of Niall demonstrating fiddle chopping in a performance environment:

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