2025 Block 3 Fiddle Practice

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

  1. 2025 Block 3 Week 1: 23rd Apr 2025
  2. 2025 Block 3 Week 2: 30th Apr 2025
  3. 2025 Block 3 Week 3: 7th May 2025
  4. 2025 Block 3 Week 4: 14th May 2025
  5. 2025 Block 3 Week 5: 21st May 2025

Link to Playlist

Tune Surgery Call Recordings

  1. 2025 Block 3 Week 2: 30th Apr 2025
  2. 2025 Block 3 Week 3: 7th May 2025
  3. 2025 Block 3 Week 4: 14th May 2025
  4. 2025 Block 3 Week 5: 21st May 2025

Link to Playlist

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.

NEFS Listening Club Playlist

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

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: