2022 Block 4 Fiddle Practice

2022 Block 4 – Fiddle Practice Calls

Welcome to Block 4

Weds 15th June – Weds 13th July inclusive (five weeks), with an optional Social Play-along session on Weds 20th July.

Social Play-along Session: Weds 20th July
We will play through the video tutorial tunes from this block and last block. If you weren’t with us last block, here is the notation of the tunes if you’d like to have a look and play along. There will also be a large selection of our Live Teaching tunes from this block (see email for details).

Fiddle Practice Call Recordings

  1. 2022 Block 4 Week 1: 15th June 2022
  2. 2022 Block 4 Week 2: 22nd June 2022
  3. 2022 Block 4 Week 3: 29th June 2022
  4. 2022 Block 4 Week 4: 6th July 2022
  5. 2022 Block 4 Week 5: 13th July 2022

Link to Playlist

Technical Nugget Call Recordings

  1. 2022 Block 4 Week 1: 15th June 2022
  2. 2022 Block 4 Week 2: 22nd June 2022
  3. 2022 Block 4 Week 3: 29th June 2022
  4. 2022 Block 4 Week 4: 6th July 2022
  5. 2022 Block 4 Week 5: 13th July 2022

Link to Playlist

Tune Surgery Call Recordings

  1. 2022 Block 4 Week 2: 22nd June 2022 – Slides!
  2. 2022 Block 4 Week 3: 29th June 2022 – More on slides, and position shifting
  3. 2022 Block 4 Week 4: 6th July 2022 – Position shifting and playing in position
  4. 2022 Block 4 Week 5: 13th July 2022 – Pulse bowing in Midnight on the Water (Luke Thomasson) / Dead Man’s Tuning / Notating tunes with an anacrusis (with Reed House Rant as a half-bar example)

Link to Playlist

Tech Tools Worksheet

Zoom details

Wednesday evenings, from 15th June
6.45 – 7.00 pm Tune Surgery (call open from 6.40 pm)
7.00 – 7.45 pm Fiddle Practice Call
7.45 – 8.30 pm Live Teaching Call
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89681467361?pwd=KnZznoCWGNqt8zzeGa_Zpam08_B4rT.1
Meeting ID: 896 8146 7361
Passcode: nefs2022b4


Additional Resources from Stewart

Technique Video Playlists

Introduction to Melodic Motifs

Introduction to Bowing Patterns

Introduction to Ornaments – Cuts and Flicks

Introduction to Bow Hold

Finger Positions

Open String Hand Frames (images)

Open String Hand Frames PDF worksheets:


Melissa’s Technique Videos

Melissa has provided recordings of her Technical Nuggets in short, bite-sized pieces to remind you how to do the different exercises. It is also hoped that you will be able to see more detail than from the Zoom recordings to help you get the most from them. The Technical Nuggets will continue as part of the Fiddle Practice Calls – this is just a reminder of exercises that have previously been covered.

Link to Playlist