Fiddlers Green Beyond Violin

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Prerequisites
Interested in playing fiddle and:
 * You are taking advantage of Violin 101 and want to learn more, or
 * You already know how to play violin at an advanced novice or intermediate level.

Welcome

 * Hello and welcome to Fiddler's Green at Wikiversity! This course is designed to help you break out of violin indoctrination and free your mind and body so you can soar into the ethereal realm of the eternal emerald paradise, Fiddler's Green. First things first: we need to un-learn lots of things we were taught, such as how the bow is held, how the fiddle is held, and incessant use of vibrato. Join Kevin Burke for Morning Dew at a[house party] - he handles the bow like Hemingway handles a typewriter: no superfluous nothin'!


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Survey the styles and find your groove!

 * Download sheet music from http://www.thesession.org


 * Text: Compendium of Fiddle Styles on WikiBooks]


 * Fiddlers Companion] Fiddlers Companion Tunes A-Z


 * [Paul Cranford] offers Michael Coleman recordings and transcriptions with some generous on line free shots. Take advantage, and, by the way, any of his books contain excellent material exemplifying the unique blend of Cape Breton style fiddle music, much of it composed in the Monastic silence of a lighthouse.
 * The Cape Breton Fiddlers Collection


 * Fiddling Across America by David Reiner & Peter Anick
 * Published by Mel Bay 1989 Pacific Missouri


 * Boston Fiddle:The Dudley Street Tradition by Frank Ferrell Listen online.
 * English, Welsh,Scottish & Irish FIDDLE TUNES by Robin Williamson. Oak Publications. 1976. New York|London|Sydney This book has a study guide
 *  Appalachian Fiddle by Miles Krassen Oak Publications 1995


 * Cajun Fiddle by Craig Duncan Mel Bay 1995


 * Twenty Irish Fiddle Tunes Kevin Burke. CD-BUR-TW01 Level 3 Includes music Kevin plays once slow, once at tempo. Grace notes, rolls, double-stops and other ornaments.


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Get a guitar accompanist and practice playing in ensemble!
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Decide which style you are most interest in by reading these articles. All of them were started by this teacher so if you have questions, use the email link below.
 * Fiddle styles
 * American fiddle
 * Old time fiddle
 * Rock violin
 * Blues fiddle
 * Canadian fiddle
 * Metis fiddle
 * Cajun fiddle
 * Western swing fiddle
 * Bluegrass fiddle
 * Quebec fiddle
 * Klezmer fiddle
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Mutes allow vigorous bowing practice when you need to keep the volume down.

Listening is critical

 * Old timer from W Virginia
 * Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues Rock
 * Natalie MacMaster Cape Breton
 * Ahokan Farewell
 * Jay and Molly
 * Cregg's Pipes (Link 8)
 * Masons Apron played by Marty Hayes
 * Tamlin Canada's Fiddlers 3 with Trad Dancers
 * Aly Bain plays Bonaparte's Retreat
 * King of the Faeries played by the legendary Scotty Fitzgerald
 * Percussive Metis style with commentary
 * Old Time Jukebox

Course originator Geof Bard posts as Wikidgood
... and if you can find it, course instructor Geof Bard was recorded as here playing McPherson’s Lament, a sad bagpipe style tune of a rogue fiddler who met his demise and played one last tune “upon the gallers tree”.


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Geof and Scott, a damned good guitarist demonstrate the spirit of collaboration which is essential in makin' music.
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 * This course will use humor, graphics and collaboration at all times.
 * Listen more! Note the percussion on this clip. It is from French-Canadian-First Nations fiddle.
 * Keep listening. For Irish style you can't beat Rollin' In the Barrel, Youngest Daughter Reel.


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Lesson One Wrap Up
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 * What this course covers
 * Fiddle styles especially indigenous and Anglo-Celtic as developed in North America.
 * Southern fiddle styles, especially from the Piedmont area of Virginia and the Appalachia, will be studied and taught only as they have influenced the above said Yankee fiddle traditions
 * Canadian fiddle styles, since they are influential on Down East and Northwest Fiddle, will be considered, studied, and absorbed, but this course will not teach those styles unless a Canadian fiddle instructor signs on.
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Lesson 2

 * Continue this lesson on More fiddle...

Contact your instructor

 * Your instructor for this class is Geof Bard. To email me, you simply @undefined.  [[Image:Crystal Clear app xfmail.png|32px]]

Resources
Lester McCumbers demonstrating how to hold the fiddle Appalachia style, violin teachers beware!

Class /Notes/.

Lesson on /How to Accompany/.
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