Tit Galop Pour Mamou has always been one of my favorite Cajun tunes! The one by Pays D'en Haut is one I enjoy. Love what you do Mitch! Wish we lived closer!

Why did you stop posting?

Wow. Mitch. Powerful interpretations. Many years after, you are amazing.

How do you have the fleur de lys and you dont speak french?

Amazing - beautiful!

Hey if I'm not mistaken Edius would play in an alternate tuning CFCF. At least on "Si j'aurais des ailes".

Great lesson, thank you! I was classically trained & coached to practice extra slowly to get it locked in, but then also to practice it at double speed, too. It is a great way to challenge yourself and expose any weak spots in technique or memory.

Man, just came across you, and love your vids. I'm similar in background, etc. Just had a little earthquake here in Idaho while watching your video ... wonder if it was a sign of some sort ... heh heh. Funny, this is the 2nd earthquake in the last couple years. Maybe all the peps from California are bringing their earthquakes with them ... anyway, great teaching and videos so far.

Is there a recording of canray playing his contradance? Is it also one of Fremont Fontenot's co tradances'

Thank you for this very helpful information

Your videos and playing are wonderful.

This is so nice. One of my favourites. Any chance you could do a video on Delma Lachney.

Hey Mitch, apparently whatever program was used to name the segments, had a problem understanding "Fontenot". See the segment title for the 2:45 time stamp. Lol

Love this , thank you

I have both a solid metal and a more light weight metal wrapped in rubber. The make it VERRRY quiet. I love it.

Beautiful tune! Thanks for posting! I can hear Tommy Duncan singing it with Bob Wills!

Malheureuse sounds just like Jack of Diamonds/Druken Hiccups, which like you said is played in Appalachia, and I've read a couple times now that it is "from" New England, in that form at least, I'm sure it has a history going way back. It's definitely one of my all time favorite fiddle tunes, but I think Varise's take on it really gives it a run for its money because that tuning is so beautiful. In Scandinavia they call it "troll tuning" and use it to play "the Devil's song", Fanitullen.

Mitch, where would you say the shuffle bowing technique came from? I once had a blue grass fiddler ask me but I couldn't pin point it with a single fiddler. Leo Soileau? Doc Guidry? This guy told me he didn't think Dennis McGee was a Cajun fiddler at all because he didn't have that shuffle beat, but he was thinking about Doug Kershaw and Diggy Liggy Lo, Louisiana Man. I replied that if Dennis McGee isn't Cajun fiddling then nobody is! Ha!

Has anyone found sheet music for this song?

Thanks for the lesson and the stories!

"promo sm"

Mitch great job with your business, marriage and your musicianship. Love and miss you my friend!!

Thanks! LOVE Leo Soileau!

Far out man ...thank you sir ,and you young lady ....

Some of my favorite happy people! Thanks so much for the joy of music!

Yeah!

So much knowledge!! Thanks for sharing!

Great music.... I hear the Native music in all of it...

You play it nice

I hear McGee's One Step and son of a bear!

That tuning has the coolest effect. Though, I personally like the AEAC# tuning. You're a bit lower, huh?

also, that Catfishing story is just about the most Louisiana thing I ever heard

What's the Canray tune called? It's awesome

Is this melody over the CGF chords. I like how you play over the F chord with a 4 note chord or a double double stop. Is that terminology correct?

Excellent video and playing! What make/model violin are you using? The tone is beautiful.

Love your content 👍👍

Hi wonderful storytelling and fiddle playing. If you would what was the name of the second fiddle tune malides? And the third. Thank you for your time.

It's crazy how good your violin sound. Which model it is ?

The way MItch can handle a fiddle, a violin ought to be classified as a "Reed Instrument"....

Standard Tuning For Fiddles Standard Fifths G D A E C G D A Standard Fourths B E A D E A D G Solo Tunings For Fiddles Fifths A E B F# D A E B Fourths C# F# B E F# B E A Cajun Tuning For Fiddles Cajun Fifths F C G D Bb F C G Cajun Fourths A D G C D G C F - Bobby McLoughlin

hey man. im coming down for the NOLA jazz fest and camping a while. would love to sit next to you at some point and learn something.

I've only been playing in earnest for about two months, though I've had this violin since August, and I've been able to play the first, second and third finger in tune most every time, but it's the fourth that I have trouble with, so I taped up my violin tonight. I don't go to jams, I play music just for my own, and my wife's amusement, in our lonesome, but I think if someone gets a bee in their bonnet about someone having tape on your violin, that's their problem, not yours, that they're projecting onto you, so don't let their insecurities stop you from making progress. Thank you again for your videos, I hope you do more soon, but I get that you must be busy! Your playing songs in your videos is great because I slow it down and pick some stuff up by ear, heheh.

Hey! what a great video! Could you write here names and references of those polkas?? I'm french and could'nt understand how is called the second one?

Thanks, Mitch! I met one of Isom Fontenot's relatives recently at our local Cajun French Table. Today he played a family video of Mr. Fontenot for me. I was blown away by how much the piece he played sounded like a fiddle playing Cajun rhythm with double stops. I'm thrilled that you shared one of his tunes. I'm off to find more!

funny, i was nerding out on fender coronado demos right before i looked this up. great lesson too!

This is a good quick explanation of what makes it sound Cajun. I was at a jam last night and a lot of those people just don't seem to know these basics. In many ways it is easier to play Cajun tunes when you know them. Plus why bothering to tune to the accordion makes more sense. Some of the best double stops etc aren't available when you play tuned standard with a C accordion. But then there is the situation I was in a while ago at Marc Savoy's where I came in and he's playing on an E accordion! A pain in the butt even standard tuned. Ha! 😃

How do you determine the weight? Is it in the frog?

Shit...This year is going to be ANOTHER learning year...lol. I'm 5+ years into fiddle, with space between years 2 and 3 and a broken wrist with 9 screws...yeah. Lost 8 years of Irish Flute, and 15 years of pennywhistle and 20 years bodhran with THAT motorcycle crash ! Took up guitar 3.5 years ago...playing barre chords, power chords and Travis picking now...time to rejoin my fiddle...Back to Drowsy Maggie, Morrisons jig and O'Carolans...started learning some Quebecquois, Cape Breton and New England stuff (I live in upstate NH) ...NOW CAJUN? Great!! 🤣🤣 Torturing myself...lol.

You are a great fiddle player. Great lessons. Thank you.

The words “fiddle” and “violin” are two names for the same stringed instrument-fiddle is just an informal way of referring to the violin. In the context of classical music, it’s typically called a violin. In a bluegrass band, it’s more likely to be called a fiddle. Technically, the word fiddle can refer to any instrument in the viol family (a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin family). But most commonly, fiddle is simply used as an informal name for the violin.