Playing Fiddle

So I’m practicing tonight and going through some of my older tunes, the ones that I used to have memorized but need to refresh now and then. I decided to work on some Celtic stuff tonight, after I practiced my daily list, and made it through 99 March, The Banshee’s Wail, Blackwater Reel, Blind Mary, [...]

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Okay, this is embarrassing but perhaps I can save someone ELSE the embarrassment. I was playing the other day and heard this odd vibration. I shook my fiddle a bit and thought I heard something inside it. Now, when I used to play guitar and mandolin sometimes I’d drop my pick inside (sloppy I know [...]

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I know I learn best when I can both hear and read the music. But sometimes a transcription will catch my eye and I just want to learn it. Sometimes I’m in the mood to learn something (a modal tune or cross tuning piece, etc.) and I skim through my collection of books. Sometimes, I [...]

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