2025 Block 3 – Fiddle Practice
Welcome to Block 3 of 2025
Weds 23rd April – Weds 21st May inclusive (five weeks)
Zoom details
Wednesday evenings, from 23rd April
7.00 – 7.45 pm Fiddle Practice Call
7.45 – 8.30 pm Live Teaching Call
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88189154460?pwd=vSJX7C3NlVvOr43nTRrVE0a44tcrA9.1
Meeting ID: 881 8915 4460
Passcode: nefs2025b3
Call open from 6.55 pm
From Week 2:
6.45 – 7.00 pm Tune Surgery (from Week 2: call open from 6.40 pm)
Fiddle Practice Call Recordings
NEFS Listening Club
Visit the NEFS Listening Club web page for further details, some guiding questions and a full list of players and videos as we add them.
Tech Tools Worksheets
NEFS 2025 Block 3 Tech Tools – Stewart
NEFS 2025 Block 3 – 6ths – Grace
Additional Resources
Pulse Bowing – from Grace
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
Stewart’s Finger Positions
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:
- Primary Finger Position
- Secondary Finger Position
- Lesser Finger Position
- Klezmer Finger Position
- Greater Finger Position