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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