Fiddle lessons...update.

[1stimestar]

This is what I'm working on right now. Of course, I think I need a swig of corn likker before being able to play it well. That and lots and lots more practice, maybe a back up banjo.
http://youtu.be/F-K-TGMpkUM


This is what I want to learn, sometime this winter!
http://youtu.be/twepYLbAhNo

I think I can feel how it would be to play it on a tundra covered mountain top.
http://youtu.be/twepYLbAhNo

[Sparky93]

Good to hear you are making progress, if you are ever in Indiana look me up. I will accompany your fiddlin with a little pick'n! You got a good taste in music!

[1stimestar]

That would be great fun! Unfortunately I don't see any circumstances that might bring me to Indiana. Even going to the lower 48 to visit family wouldn't bring me there. If you ever get up to Alaska, bring your guitar lol.

[crashdive123]

There is something intriguing and relaxing imagining violin music with the Northern Lights as a back drop.

[1stimestar]

Ohhh now there's an idea. I'll try to have something ready by next fall. I don't think my camera will take good video though because of the settings one must use to photograph the northern lights. I don't know if I can film using those settings. I'll check it out though. Thanks for the idea.

[crashdive123]

Ohhh now there's an idea. I'll try to have something ready by next fall. I don't think my camera will take good video though because of the settings one must use to photograph the northern lights. I don't know if I can film using those settings. I'll check it out though. Thanks for the idea.

You could do a youtube vid of still shots with your music on top for a sound track.

[gryffynklm]

There is an old French Canadian legend about a fiddle player who cold make the lights dance. Here is a recent book that tells that story.
http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher_14701.htm

1stimestar, Congratulations. That is a favorite movie, the sound track as well.

[hunter63]

Glad to hear you are pressing forward......
I have a small mountain dulcimer, 4 stringer, that I play with (can't really say play)...around the fire when I get feeling mystic, sometimes.......

Some say it twern't bad, the next morning...although I have no recollect...at times.

[jake abraham]

I'm looking into a backpack dulcimer 4 stringer I hope you continue to press forward with this

[BENESSE]

It's a beautiful sound.
Nothing like it to awaken your roots even if you didn't know you had any. When you hear it you get it.

[1stimestar]

You could do a youtube vid of still shots with your music on top for a sound track.

Good idea. I've done that with other still photos.

There is an old French Canadian legend about a fiddle player who cold make the lights dance. Here is a recent book that tells that story.
http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher_14701.htm
Oh cool. I'll go look. Yes there is a story here that some can whistle the lights to them.


1stimestar, Congratulations. That is a favorite movie, the sound track as well.

Thanks. Yes I love the music. Of course, it will sound a bit different without the full symphony back up but should still work for me.

Glad to hear you are pressing forward......
I have a small mountain dulcimer, 4 stringer, that I play with (can't really say play)...around the fire when I get feeling mystic, sometimes.......

Some say it twern't bad, the next morning...although I have no recollect...at times.

Someone gave me a brand new mandolin since the fingering is similar to violin. I'm getting this under my belt first before trying to tackle that monster!

I'm looking into a backpack dulcimer 4 stringer I hope you continue to press forward with this

Thank you, I will.

It's a beautiful sound.
Nothing like it to awaken your roots even if you didn't know you had any. When you hear it you get it.

Yes, exactly.

[Rick]

I'm looking forward to some music posted from both instruments. Once you get them down you could do a composite video of you accompanying yourself. That would be cool, too.

[hunter63]

Funny, that when I was posting the last post, before the football game....the neighbor across the street was playing his bag pipes, is in a piper marching band, songs and sound, very similar to a dulcimer, with the drone strings and all....love a fiddle,... and blue grass.

[gryffynklm]

Mandolin, good score and idea.

[ClayPick]

The fiddle is in the blood around here. This is some traditional music. Buddy McMaster and his niece Natalie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbY-L...eature=related

[crashdive123]

Not quite a fiddle, but I really enjoy listening to these guys.

[Sparky93]

Here's one for y'all



And to answer the geico guys question.... yes, yes he does.....

[gryffynklm]

[Sparky93]

@ Karl - Yes!....

[hunter63]

Wow, maaaan...far out, man......look at the lights...man....