 Secrets of Jigs
Tips and Technique for Fiddle
Stewart Hardy
ISBN: 978-0-9562244-0-8
The essence of this book, together with the accompanying CD, is to be a bridge between the written page and authentic fiddle music. It offers a concise treatment of jigs, with forthcoming books to cover other popular tune forms such as reels, hornpipes, waltzes etc.The material has been carefully selected to provide a clear and concise route between notation and performance.
The player’s interpretational skills are developed so as to be able to extract information from the page and transform it into convincing fiddle music. Listening skills are developed so as to recognize and recreate the techniques that are heard - the techniques which act together to achieve satisfying performances.
The book is aimed at two groups of musicians: those competent violin players who can read music but struggle to recreate the style of the traditional fiddle player; and the aspiring fiddle player who understands the sound they are trying to achieve, but is frustrated by an apparent inability to reproduce it when playing material from written sources. |
