2025 Block 6 – Fiddle Practice

Welcome to Block 6 of 2025

Weds 5th November – Weds 3rd December, with an optional social Zoom play-along session on Weds 10th December.

Zoom details

Wednesday evenings, from 5th November
7.00 – 7.45 pm Fiddle Practice Call
7.45 – 8.30 pm Live Teaching Call

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89700181344?pwd=fbpAVj19PiEydYChm0sD6pF2GPE2Du.1

Meeting ID: 897 0018 1344
Passcode: nefs2025b6

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)

Tech Tools Worksheet

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Fiddle Practice Call Recordings

1. 2025 Block 6 Week 1: 5th Nov 2025
2. 2025 Block 6 Week 2: 12th Nov 2025
3. 2025 Block 6 Week 3: 19th Nov 2025
4. 2025 Block 6 Week 4: 26th Nov 2025
5. 2025 Block 6 Week 5: 3rd Dec 2025

Link to Playlist

Tune Surgery Call Recordings

1. 2025 Block 6 Week 2: 12th Nov 2025
2. 2025 Block 6 Week 3: 19th Nov 2025
3. 2025 Block 6 Week 4: 26th Nov 2025
4. 2025 Block 6 Week 3: 3rd Dec 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

4/4 Groove (Ticky Tocky) – from Grace

Crushes – from Stewart

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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