2024 Block 4 Fiddle Practice

2024 Block 4 – Fiddle Practice

Welcome to Block 4 of 2024

Weds 12th June – Weds 10th July inclusive (five weeks), with an optional Social Play Along Session on Weds 17th July.

Tech Tools Worksheets

NEFS 2024 Block 4 Tech Tools (Stewart)

Grace’s NEFS 2024 Block 3 and 4 Exercises

Zoom details

Wednesday evenings, from 12th June
7.00 – 7.45 pm Fiddle Practice Call
7.45 – 8.30 pm Live Teaching Call

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85611278324?pwd=bbmCQ37btNHMeo7fRfgtqi4Kd2bb2L.1

Meeting ID: 856 1127 8324
Passcode: nefs2024b4

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 4 Week 1: 12th June 2024
  2. 2024 Block 4 Week 2: 19th June 2024
  3. 2024 Block 4 Week 3: 26th June 2024
  4. 2024 Block 4 Week 4: 3rd July 2024
  5. 2024 Block 4 Week 5: 10th July 2024

Link to Playlist

Tune Surgery Call Recordings

  1. 2024 Block 4 Week 2: 19th June 2024 – Triplets or Birls in Maggie’s Pancakes
  2. 2024 Block 4 Week 3: 26th June 2024 – the Back Beat
  3. 2024 Block 4 Week 4: 3rd July 2024 – Exploring Jig Grooves / Shoulder & Chin rests
  4. 2024 Block 4 Week 5: 10th July 2024 – Harmonies and Countermelodies / Exploring Dance Grooves – Dotted hornpipes

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: