Workshop topics:

Fiddle Technique

Tunes are carefully selected to work as exercises demonstrating particular techniques, whilst at the same time providing a melodic stimulus. Exercises are extracted from the tunes to facilitate applying the technique to other tunes. Many of the tunes are suitable for multi-level workshops, with the teaching of a variety of techniques, requiring greater or lesser technical experience, applied to them. Subject matter includes:

1. Bowing Technique

• – Bowing Patterns for tune forms, such as:
  • • Jigs
  • • Reels
  • • Hornpipes
  • • Polkas
  • • Waltzes
  • • Strathspeys
• – Advanced Bowing Techniques
• – Bowed Ornamentation
• – Chording

2. Left Hand Technique

• – Hand Positions
• – Left Hand Ornamentation
• – Scalic Mnemonics
• – Chord Shapes

3. General Fiddle Well-Being

• – Posture
• – Care of Instrument
• – Practice techniques

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