2025 Block 5 – Fiddle Practice

Welcome to Block 5 of 2025

Weds 17th September – Weds 15th October inclusive (five weeks).

Zoom details

Wednesday evenings, from 17th September
6.45 – 7.00 pm Tune Surgery (call open from 6.40 pm)
7.00 – 7.45 pm Fiddle Practice Call
7.45 – 8.30 pm Live Teaching Call

Tech Tools Worksheets

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Fiddle Practice Call Recordings

1. 2025 Block 5 Week 1: 17th Sept 2025
2. 2025 Block 5 Week 2: 24th Sept 2025
3. 2025 Block 5 Week 3: 1st Oct 2025
4. 2025 Block 5 Week 4: 8th Oct 2025
5. 2025 Block 5 Week 5: 15th Oct 2025

Link to Playlist

Tune Surgery Call Recordings

1. 2025 Block 5 Week 2: 24th Sept 2025
2. 2025 Block 5 Week 3: 1st Oct 2025
3. 2025 Block 5 Week 4: 8th Oct 2025
4. 2025 Block 5 Week 5: 15th Oct 2025

Link to Playlist

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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

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Additional Resources

Simple Shuffle – from Stewart

Pulse Bowing – from Grace

Tips & Techniques for Folk Fiddlers – from Stewart

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Technique Video Playlists – from Stewart

Introduction to Melodic Motifs

Introduction to Bowing Patterns

Introduction to Ornaments – Cuts and Flicks

Introduction to Bow Hold

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Stewart’s Finger Positions

Open String Hand Frames (images)

Open String Hand Frames PDF worksheets:

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

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