[Osmo hakosalo]

Ok, I will remind you later. Definetly worth checking out. I think Basco from Denmark was there one year.

Osmo

[Osmo hakosalo]

Hi Peter!
Nice to see people here from my corner of the world. I was in a super jam session this weekend. We had a cruise ship full of jams when “Folklandia 2015” took off. Tens of great acts from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Scotland (also our band) performing and jamming for 24 hour cruise between Helsinki and Tallinn. After our set I was jamming with a friend of mine with Arto Järvelä from JPP for couple of hours. Great stuff. Managed to go to bed around 8.30 a.m…..You should come too next year since you are so close anyway. There are many Swedes and Swedish groups every year. It is such a great concept.
The Scandinavian Jam session is a must!

[Osmo hakosalo]

Great idea Roland! Will do exactly that. Vibrato really takes time. I have watched many tutorials, many violinists/fiddlers, trained with my teacher and now I am starting to get an idea what I want to sound like and some idea how to train for that. For sure it is going to take quite some time to get it working properly but with your videos and recording myself regularly are making the training more efficient. Thanks guys!

[Osmo hakosalo]

Hi Casey & Roland!
The vibrato tutorial is great and useful, but it takes a lot of time to get it to a decent level, and as Casey said, there are many ways to do it. It seems to be a very personal journey to find what kind of vibe you want. I personally like Caseys wide and laid back vibrato very much and that is a big reason why I am trying to learn from your videos. I think that the tutorials work fine, but the best way for me has been to choose a song, find a recording I like from YouTube for example, even better if there is a song tutorial like here, and then just try to imitate imitate imitate until you are too frustrated to carry on…..and hope that something sticks to your head and muscle memory for the next training session 🙂
And this was basically Casey’s message in a nutshell.
The videos are just absolutely great.

[Osmo hakosalo]

Hi
Great site – just joined in yesterday and started looking at Whistler’s Waltz
My name is Osmo and I started to play violin/ fiddle three + years ago just before turning 40. So I guess this is some sort of midlife crisis :-). I have some background in music and especially in playing the piano, so readind sheets etc was very familiar to me already.
I come from Finland and have been mainly playing Scandinavian and Finnish trads, but have now been very interested of old time and these great American waltzes you have here. I am trying to work on my vibrato, which definetly is not easy and I hardly ever need that in Scandinavian music. Unfortunaltely with these waltzes you just have to get it together ( at leats to some acceptable level) before you can really enjoy playing or listening them.
I have a fiddle teacher, but she is not expert in this style, so I was wondering if it is possible to get for example Skype lessons etc after I have some tunes worked up to a some reasonable level?

Cheers,

Osmo

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