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Tom replied to the topic Celtic Laments in the forum Student Videos 5 years ago
Thank you @kate-kakadu and @cynhrossi for kind words. I find slow songs like those are a great break from the harder work of double stops, metronome and speed challenges!
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Here’s something fun you can do on the fiddle. Alternate between a constant note and other changing notes, always alternating back to open D. This is called a “pedal pattern”.
Here’s a basic pedal pat […]
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Tom replied to the topic Celtic Laments in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 1 month ago
Thank you, Eimear! The baby seal is my favourite as well, but the baby donkey and the hairy coo are close second and third.
Those songs and pics really make me want to hop over the pond again soon.
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Jenny Lynn (2 days in) in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 1 month ago
Hey @jameseke, good playing. Tone is full and you really hear the melody. It’ll be good to hear progress as you continue to practice this.
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Tom replied to the topic Celtic Laments in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 1 month ago
Thank you both Carolyns. I like the term “lonesome sound”. I would love to be playing those tunes at some of those lonesome beaches and cliffs included in the video.
The vid of me was the first take, so I let the occasional flub go. That left more time for adding slides. I use Adobe Premiere Elements for editing videos, so it was actually not too…[Read more]
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
In this lesson, I demonstrate 17 ways to practice the tune Jenny Lynn. This will make your sessions fun and productive. You’ll learn the tune at a deep level as you improve various aspects of your […]
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That is awesome.
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Tanks 🤓
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I’ve started using these techniques in my practice. Please consider doing a lesson on transposing to a minor key. I need some help with that one!
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Good idea @debhill
Here’s a quickie lesson on how to do it.
-Play a major key tune.
-Play its major scale.
-Play the minor (Aeolian) scale (lower the third, sixth, seventh steps)
-Sub out those notes as they fall in the tune.Have fun…
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Thanks for the help with the minor key transposition.
Mary
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Thanks for your help!
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FiddleHed Group 1 Intermediate ( 3 members created during the first breakout group session) are practicing this tune, some suggested variants, and / eventually the variations with double stops, etc. It is quite fun and quite challenging! We are going to continue next week.
Thanks, Jason and team!!!!!-
Nice @sarahb,
I wanna hear what you guys come up with 🎻
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Just finished watching the video. Excellent suggestions! Even though I’ve been playing flute, piano for decades (teach and perform both), practicing does seem like ‘work’ sometimes, especially now when we can’t play with live people -although we’re starting to see a light at the end… Yay! Now I’m going to try them out.🎶😊
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Hey @hmk,
You can apply this creative practice approach to any instrument. Have fun 🕺🏾
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Great tone from that beautiful fiddle.
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Jason, You are awesome, and you make learning fiddle fun, and this video made me smile. Timing is my biggest challenge, so I will try the metronome…. Thank you! 🙂
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Awesomeness
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Thanks so much!! Some of these things I’ve done, but not all! I love your lessons!!
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Love all these suggestions! Have done a lot of them, but I need to practice playing things way over there in the minor key more.
I’m sure you talk about this somewhere else, but I also love to swing the beat when I’m trying to wrap my head around a new tune… sometimes I just like them better that way anyway. -
the klezmer way is totally cool
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Tom replied to the topic Celtic Laments in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 1 month ago
Thanks Joanne. I love those old slow songs. Lots of fun.
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Tom started the topic Celtic Laments in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 1 month ago
I fired up my Raagini drone in D Major this afternoon, and it goes great with four Scottish/Irish laments on this rainy April day in Covid Times, reminding me of bagpipes. It’s either depressing or uplifting, depending on your point of view.
I hoped to add some interest by using some photos from Ireland/Scotland trips we took in the past few…[Read more]
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Last weekend I finished a recording session with my old friend Joe Rut. Overall, it went well. We did six tunes in about two and a half days. Three of these are long form “fiddle raga” pieces, while the other […]
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Jason, I love the sound of the new tune “To You….” very hypnotic it reminds me a bit of Sigur Ros.
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Thanks @joanneiles
I’m a big fan of Sigur Ros.
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The clip of your song is quite nice. Thank goodness you moved through or around the roadblocks to its creation and completion.
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Very, very pretty song ” To You (and everyone else wandering in the world.)”
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thanks Owen 🙂
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us.
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You’re welcome Grace 🙂
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Hi Jason, what a lovely relaxed vibe. It’s unmistakably you; light fiddle and drone/indian music drone box thingy. It’s a hit!
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Thanks @ear_eim_ear_eim 🙏
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
A FiddleHed named Malik asked “Can you explain for me what a G-Clef is?”
The fancy scroll with a tail that appears at the beginning of fiddle music is called the treble clef.
The other name for it is […]
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
I’ve been reading The War of Art, which is about overcoming resistance in creative work. Though I’ve been making things my whole life, I still have to do battle with Resistance.
For example, I’ve been writing […]
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Just ordered this book. Looking forward to a good read.
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Love the raga blend!
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love this jason! i liked the conversations about it being too weird for fiddlers and too normal for the experimental lovers. I guess a better way to look at it is its the best of both worlds, and hopefully for everyone. it sounds like a shuti box! have you ever heard or used one? I’ve been really wanting one for a long time. i love drone music which is why i first got interested in violin. anyway i wanted to share this video with you if i can. its my favorite shuti box performance I’ve ever seen. beautiful, and maybe an inspiration in there somewhere for fiddlers? i don’t know. https://youtu.be/hEzO947WtZU
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That is beautiful, exotic….love it! I want to learn to play it :).
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jason kleinberg and
cynhrossi are now friends 5 years, 2 months ago
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jason kleinberg and
Patty are now friends 5 years, 2 months ago
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Jim Guinn replied to the topic Tam Lin in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 2 months ago
Tough tune, but you do a very nice job with it, Owen. Keep up the good work!
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 2 months ago
A little lesson on Little Lift
The practice of Little Lift will help you to place your left-hand fingers on the fiddle with greater ease. It will also help you to play better in tune and […] -
jason kleinberg replied to the topic Bill Sullivan's Polka in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 2 months ago
ps: I know this tune but never knew the name of it…
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jason kleinberg replied to the topic Bill Sullivan's Polka in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 2 months ago
Niiice!
Love your version of this tune. 👏
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 2 months ago
Super fun to play some back up fiddle with this amazing singer named @jongmadaliday from the Philippines who I found on TikTok 😻. I’m kind of a noob at this, so still totally amazed that with a little bit of effo […]
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Jason, how do we hear what you did? I don’t have access to anything except your lessons.
Cindy
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Wait…. never mind, I found it.
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That’s way cool!! My biggest goal in fiddling us to play along with a picker/singer enviornment.
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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 2 months ago
Have you been playing for a while and noticed that the hair on your bow has a case of “bed head” and isn’t quite falling into line anymore? Or maybe a bow was gifted to you, but the hair has more gaps than […]
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i think i need two bows then! one for back up while replacing? I have never done this!
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Tom replied to the topic River John Sunset Waltz in the forum Student Videos 5 years, 2 months ago
Some good thoughts, Carolyn (@cbfidhed2020). Bowing suggestions do vary a lot depending on genre, personal taste, skill level, etc. I’ll have another look at Module 1.3 as you suggest.
Overall, I am not too concerned about getting it “Right” if there is such a thing. I can strive for some structure, but I much better enjoy the flow from some well…[Read more]
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Good exercise!!! Good for intonation practice too.