2024 Block 6 Fiddle Practice

2024 Block 6 – Fiddle Practice

Welcome to Block 6 of 2024

Weds 6th November – Weds 4th December inclusive (five weeks), with an optional play-along session on Weds 11th December.

Tech Tools Worksheet

NEFS 2024 Block 6 Tech Tools

Arpeggio Exercises

NEFS 2024 Block 6 Arpeggio Exercises

Fiddle Practice Call Recordings

  1. 2024 Block 6 Week 1: 6th Nov 2024
  2. 2024 Block 6 Week 2: 13th Nov 2024
  3. 2024 Block 6 Week 3: 20th Nov 2024
  4. 2024 Block 6 Week 4: 27th Nov 2024
  5. 2024 Block 6 Week 5: 4th Dec 2024

Link to Playlist

Tune Surgery Call Recordings

  1. 2024 Block 6 Week 2: 13th Nov 2024 – Looking at ornaments: turns and rolls
  2. 2024 Block 6 Week 3: 20th Nov 2024 – How to maintain crisp articulation as the speed increases / What makes a player unique? Identifying differences in style
  3. 2024 Block 6 Week 4: 27th Nov 2024 – Articulation: sound point and straight bows / What makes a player unique? Identifying differences in style – listening exercise
  4. 2024 Block 6 Week 5: 4th Dec 2024 – What’s coming up for NEFS and in the folk world over the next couple of months?

Link to Playlist

Additional Resources

Tips & Techniques for Folk Fiddlers – from Stewart

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: