2024 Block 1 Fiddle Practice

2024 Block 1 – Fiddle Practice Calls

Welcome to Block 1 of 2024

Weds 17th January – Weds 14th February.

Tech Tools Worksheet

NEFS 2024 Block 1 Tech Tools worksheet

Zoom details

Wednesday evenings, from 17th January
7.00 – 7.45 pm Fiddle Practice Call
7.45 – 8.30 pm Live Teaching Call

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83841297007?pwd=Z1hGK3ZHajhUTFowOEtyL2dxanMyUT09

Meeting ID: 838 4129 7007
Passcode: nefs2024b1

Call open from 6.55 pm

6.45 – 7.00 pm Tune Surgery (from Week 2: call open from 6.40 pm)

Fiddle Practice Call Recordings

  1. 2024 Block 1 Week 1: 17th Jan 2024
  2. 2024 Block 1 Week 2: 24th Jan 2024
  3. 2024 Block 1 Week 3: 31st Jan 2024
  4. 2024 Block 1 Week 4: 7th Feb 2024
  5. 2024 Block 1 Week 5: 14th Feb 2024

Link to Playlist

Tune Surgery Call Recordings

  1. 2024 Block 1 Week 2: 24th Jan 2024 – Getting bite in the bow on an up bow / How do you know what type of tune it is? Why does it matter?
  2. 2024 Block 1 Week 3: 31st Jan 2024 – The short roll / How to recognise a hornpipe
  3. 2024 Block 1 Week 4: 7th Feb 2024 – Ideas for warming up before a performance
  4. 2024 Block 1 Week 5: 14th Feb 2024 – How do Kevin and Grace source their material? / Tips from Kevin for playing with a light touch

Link to Playlist

Additional Resources

Technique Video Playlists – from Stewart

Introduction to Melodic Motifs

Introduction to Bowing Patterns

Introduction to Ornaments – Cuts and Flicks

Introduction to Bow Hold

Stewart’s Finger Positions

Finger Positions (Open String) (pdf)

Open String Hand Frames (images)

  • Primary FInger Position
  • Secondary Finger Position
  • Lesser Finger Position
  • Klezmer Finger Position
  • Greater Finger Position

Open String Hand Frames PDF worksheets: