Activity

Ahhh…you’ve earned the stiff joints…it’s just about finding the right tools to get you limbered up and enjoying the music you create! Fiddling can be a ton of fun, believe me. Anything that takes a bunch of work to get better at makes sucess that much sweeter!

Thanks Casey, good advice and yes, I’ll check out tutorials you mention. Had to Google Django Reinhardt, but what an inspiration! And me, I think I’ll stop whining about my stiff joints now…

Hi, David, and thanks for the suggestions. I have a running list of song requests, and I’ll add these to the mix to check out before my next session. I’m always a big fan of waltzes!! Looking forward to hearing these ones. Do you have any links you can post for us to hear?

Hi again, CinqAns. I believe that Hanneke mentioned the possibility of recording Leanne MacLean’s Revenge the last time she was in-studio. She’s scheduled to be back to record a new set of lessons this April. I’ll send her your request and we’ll see what ends up on film…

Thanks for the suggestions!

Hi, there CinqAns. I’ve had the same thought regarding Perlman. It’s amazing what those large fingers can pull out of the instrument. And then you have folks like Django Reinhardt who manage to overcome greater challenges…

My advice would be to practice ascending/descending trills over major scales with a metronome. Work up in speed as you…[Read more]

HI David, Roland White Forum Moderator chiming in on your request for 2 new tunes. Casey will have to chime in on that as he receives quite a few and has to juggle his studio time with priority items first But I will say I took a moment to listen to them on YouTube and they are beautiful tunes. I was able to find several artists playing them…[Read more]

Hi there, Sherlock. If I’m looking at the same part of the performance video as you (about :48 seconds in), I’m linking 5 notes together on an upbow. That is if you count the first finger slide down from the F# to the E as three distinct notes.

So the 5 upbow notes I’m playing are as follows:

E (fourth finger on the A string)
E (open)
F#…[Read more]

Hi Lochnessk, Forum moderator here chiming in. I love that tune and every time I see the music for it it says PD. Finally I found out that this means form the PUBLIC DOMAIN. I also think it is cool when a tune survives the composer and becomes a icon itself. When I heard how much the Texas Style fiddlers can change this tune around and all the…[Read more]

Hi Sherlock, Roland White Forum moderator. Although I haven’t checked into that exact song I can give you some tips in a general way for slurs. First I must emphasis how subtle Casey executes his slurs, often times anywhere from 1-3 notes glided through so smoothly that they are hard to detect. But after a lot of listening and working on slurs…[Read more]

Great, Greenfiddler! That sheet music would be 6 pages long, right?!

Best of luck as you tackle this tough tune…it’s a fun one.

Good news, I got it to work tonight!

I am keeping the page open, because I couldn’t practice, but it does work.

Thanks for the info and responses, Casey! Now only for the sheet music of the advanced version and I will be set!

Hi there, Lochness. I was also unable to find a composer for this tune when I was researching. I think you’ll be stuck with “Traditional” as the composer. I would think that would be OK…keep us posted if you do identify a composer for the tune. Thanks!

Hi there, Lochness. I also was unable to find a composer for this tune when I was researching. I think you’ll be stuck with “Traditional” as the composer. I would think that would be OK…keep us posted if you do identify a composer for the tune. Thanks!

Hi again. Man, that’s not cool. It still plays here…

Maybe you could try clearing your browser history and then signing back in to the site. Maybe you have a corrupt temporary cookie on your machine which is preventing you from accessing the page. And to make sure – you are able to get other videos and pages to load on the site?

Also, have…[Read more]

Hi again. Man, that’s not cool. It still plays here…

Maybe you could try clearing your browser history and then signing back in to the site. Maybe you have a corrupt temporary cookie on your machine which is preventing you from accessing the page. And to make sure – you are able to get other videos and pages to load on the site?

Also, have…[Read more]