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Holding the Bow of a Fiddle for Beginners
Variations on Bow Holding for Fiddle Beginners
How to Hold the Fiddle for Beginners
Tips On Holding the Fiddle Properly for Beginners
How Fiddle Position Can Change When Playing
Making Notes on the Fiddle
Range of Note Expression on the Fiddle
Playing Basic Notes : Fiddle Lesson for Beginners
Using Open String To Give Reference Tone When Playing the Fiddle
Making Basic Notes Using Five Note Scale on Arpeggio Exercise on the Fiddle
How a Fiddle Differs from a Violin
How to Play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the Fiddle
Playing Ornamentation on the Fiddle
Jig Bowing on the Fiddle for Beginners
Foot Movements While Playing the Fiddle for Beginners
Summary: In this free video clip series, enjoy a fiddle lesson from our expert and learn how to hold the bow and fiddle, play beginner songs, and make notes. In this clip learn how to make notes on the fiddle. In this clip learn about making basic notes on a fiddle.
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 for expertvillage.com. I’m going to talk about playing basic notes on the fiddle, and to do that I thought I would demonstrate an exercise that I learned from one of my friend’s in Dalarne, Sweden about 20 years ago. It involves using the G-scale, just the basic major scale starting with an open G-string, and all I do is play up five notes of the scale and down, and those are first five notes of the G-scale. Then I play the first third and fifth of that sequence…and to break that up a little bit I’ll be playing a G, a B and a D and a B again twice. Then I’ll be start using the same scale, but start one note higher than before so instead of starting with the open G, I’d start with the A and I’ll go up five notes…now those five notes all of these are in the same G-scale. I would then arpegiate that sequence, which is to play the first, third and fifth tones of that sequence, A C E C alright then start one note higher in the sequence with a B and go up five G-scale notes starting with B, then I arpegiate that first, third and fifth and start on the next note up and I arpegiate that and then the next note… "
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