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Summary: Learn how to make notes on the fiddle as a beginner with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip for beginners.
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
" Hi! I’m David Kaynor with expertvillage.com, and I am going to talk about how to make a note. Well there are a lot of ways to make notes, and there are hot controversies about many of them, but basically the bow hair has to contact the violin’s string and then move over it, and you have to move with some degree of smoothness and speed in order to get real tone. Merely moving the hair over the string can create a most unmusical sound. To get that to become a musical sound, two things have to happen: my weight on the bow has to be lighter and the speed of my bow’s motion has to be faster, so that these scratches become excitations of the string. And I can go from scratch to tone if I’m careful here. Then there’s the question of where the bow should contact the string. Generally it’s thought that it should be between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge: if it’s right up on the bridge it tends to be quiet scratchy; if it’s out by the fingerboard it can be quiet thin as well. Somewhere in the middle is, I guess in some sports they would call a sweet spot, the area where there’s the best compromise… and there you have note generation 101."
eHow Article: Making Notes on the Fiddle
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