Last week i bought fiddle for £49.
bargain.
Ive been thinking about learning to play for a while now.
I think its one of the most emotive of all instruments.
Its interesting playing something with a bow, you have to think about attacking the notes in a different way. Im used to plucking things.
Anyway, its harder than it looks.
heres a couple of clips of my progress after 7 days.
if your ears dont start bleeding somethings wrong wit yer brain.
improv round a riff link
scotland the brave (murdered) link
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Written June 10 2007 , Tags: fiddle, ownership
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Wow, that's really impressive for 7 days!
Keep it up!
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Get a mic so you can play it through a guitar amp.
Violin / Viola + guitar amp = 
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sounds like you're well on your way
thanks for the encouragement.
my brain knows what sounds it wants, but my fingers are still catching up. for anyone trying to give up smoking i recommend taking up a new instrument. works a treat. oooh, I like your style sir. New instrument to replace a bad habit. Is that what you are doing?
thats awesome great
ps. when i put scotland the brave on my cat ran out of the room still good though monty said: "for anyone trying to give up smoking i recommend taking up a new instrument. works a treat." Someone just mentioned to me about a teacher who made his students hold an unlit cigarette in their mouth while playing. If it was drooping, they were relaxed, if it was stock straight, they were tense and neeeded to relax. Seriously, though, be aware of what movements are causing you stress. There are some serious string player injuries that can prevent you from playing and learning to play relaxed will get you much farther. It's the single most impossible to play instrument that was ever devised! I have TOTAL respect for anyone who can even passably play a bowed, fretless instrument.
I used to live next door to a country fiddling legend(Clarence Tate) and he would occasionally play on the back porch, playing incredibly complex double stop fiddle as they say around here "like it twernt no thang." Roshi: cheers for the tip
i was getting some aches in my wrists. so i took a break and started re-adjusting how i was holding the bow. im thinking about going for lessons, incase i pick up weird habits that will fuck up my bones in future years. Roland White visited mr. Tate a lot. Mr. Tate(Tater) lives in East TN now, and was teaching at a university until he recently contracted lung cancer. It's funny that even at the highest echelons of Bluegrass, you're still just a middle class dude that lives next door to me. To the right people, these guys were gods.
You can hear their work together on Nashville Grass records. If you appreciate bluegrass, then you'll appreciate the list of band members. link My folks are from Cape Breton, and my grandparents are still there. When I lived out that way, I had to choose between ukelele and fiddle for music class. I chose violin and loved it for about a year, until the family moved east to the land of obnoxious brass instruments. Sadly, I haven't played since then.
Good luck, it is rather difficult but a lot of fun! You REALLY need to listen to some Helmut Zacharias- especially his version of Ob-la-dai-ob-la-da.
Also, listen to The United States of America, a psychedelic group with a violinist. You brain will asplode. Page 1 | 2
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