FiddleHed | dylanblawrence | Activity https://staging.fiddlehed.com/members/dylanblawrence/activity/ Activity feed for dylanblawrence. Wed, 06 May 2026 23:24:19 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 42e648fb3e9d17138eae9b79570128ed dylanblawrence started the topic Mace Bell's Civil War March in the forum Student Videos https://staging.fiddlehed.com/forums/topic/mace-bells-civil-war-march/ Sat, 10 Jul 2021 01:39:29 -0700 Howdy folks. I came across this tune a few weeks ago while listening to Spencer & Rains, and it is now my favorite Old Timey fiddle tune. It is called Mace Bell’s Civil War March. I am obsessed with it so thought I would share. -Dylan

]]> 0e498cab8989473c24ca1f8f4df0a04f dylanblawrence replied to the topic One-year anniversary in the forum Student Videos https://staging.fiddlehed.com/forums/topic/one-year-anniversary/#post-44845 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 03:46:04 -0800 All, thanks for the kind words, and sorry for my delay in responding. In answer to the questions:

1) For the sheet music for Niel Gow’s Lament, I believe I obtained it from the abcnotation.com/tunes website. The sheet music is pretty basic.

2) For the embellishments, that is mostly based on my listening to various versions of the song…[Read more]

]]> 1b5d52e4e5c1b112a3801ac17c0bd0df dylanblawrence replied to the topic One-year anniversary in the forum Student Videos https://staging.fiddlehed.com/forums/topic/one-year-anniversary/#post-44746 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 05:20:31 -0800 Thanks so much for the kind words. Not like I am some grizzled veteran or anything, but if I can offer one piece of advice, it would be to take videos of yourself playing the fiddle, and then go back and really study them. When I did this, I realized I was often rushing through certain parts of tunes, and was consistently too sharp on the third…[Read more]

]]> 7b84b39c3e961281cb9ba515fcf31a21 dylanblawrence started the topic One-year anniversary in the forum Student Videos https://staging.fiddlehed.com/forums/topic/one-year-anniversary/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 03:28:11 -0800 I first picked up a fiddle on Dec. 5, 2019, and wanted to commemorate my one-year anniversary of playing the fiddle by playing the tune that convinced me to try this instrument in the first place. It is the Scottish tune, Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife. Certainly not perfect, but hey, it’s gritty and…[Read more]

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