FiddleHed Network

Stumbled upon the practice session yesterday when browsing the site so hadn’t prepared anything.
– scales, major, dorian and pentatonic and letting the drone open my mind to improvisation.
– memory work on Red Haired Boy and The Butterfly with strum machine backing and Fiddlehed backing track.
– finished with more scales and improvisation.
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– Warmed up with C major scales and variations, also D major and A major.
– Practiced Jason’s Smiling Bows.
– Worked on vibrato exercises with metronome for a significant time.
– Played White Christmas with vibrato.
– Will sleep in compression gloves. Really helps with muscle recovery after vibrato and bowing exercises.
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Awwwwwwwsum. Let us know what tunes you’re playing…

After being away for Thanksgiving I spent my practice time reviewing Down by the Sally Gardens, Red Haired Boy, Whiskey Before Breakfast and a different version of Mucking O’Geordie’s Byre, which I figured with a title like that, I needed to learn!!! Tomorrow working on chordal scales and bowing.

Practiced G scale two octaves. added variations of 123, 1,3,2,4,3,5,4,6,5,7,8.

Worked out bowing on Away in Manger in harmony section – slurs on eighth notes and down bow for effect.

Tried playing softly on harmony section.

Ran through entire piece twice with recorded accompaniment.

Need to cut my nails.

Awesome job!!!

It is a nice tune, Jeannette; new to me. You did very well with it!

Niiiice!

Niiiice going Sandy!