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Fiddle Playing
The Basics of Tuning a Fiddle
How to Tune a Fiddle
How to Play the Fiddle in Left Hand Position
The Differences between the Fiddle & the Violin
Proper Bow Grip for Playing the Fiddle
How to Use the Bow When Playing the Fiddle
How to Bow a Jig on the Fiddle
How to Play a Single String Melody on the Fiddle
How to Play a Multiple String Melody on the Fiddle
How to Play the Fiddle Using Reel Bowing Patterns
How to Use the Vibrato Technique to Play the Fiddle
About Ornamentation When Playing the Fiddle
Adding Ornamentation When Playing the Fiddle
About the Parts of the Fiddle
Learn the Parts of the Fiddle
Summary: Learn to bow using the vibrato technique on the fiddle with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip.
David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley. He can be often found calling music and playing...read more
"I have a website www.davidkaynor.com and you can visit it to find out more about me. I'm going to talk very briefly about vibrato, left hand vibrato in fiddle music. Violinists learn general vibrato in several different techniques. We fiddlers, we soft talking fiddlers learn all of this by watching and leaping to sometimes inaccurate conclusions, but basically vibrato—it sounds like the word vibrate and it involves the change of the pitch of the note. Fiddlers use vibrato in waltzes and slow airs; they don’t use them in fast tunes, they just use them in reel time. But if I were playing a waltz, the difference between a note without vibrato is it is just a simple a single tone. With vibrato the pitch goes up and down a little bit, and I change the amount it goes up and down on how far I roll my finger tips to sharp to flat. And also I can change the speed in which I rotate my fingers tips. Or, in the context of a waltz, it sounds like this."
eHow Article: How to Use the Vibrato Technique to Play the Fiddle
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