Megan Lynch Chowning

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@johntait491 Күн бұрын

Thanks for all the advice over the last 12 months Megan. Happy birthday. 🍷🍷

@redhalsell Күн бұрын

Chubby was my favorite fiddler and he could get that blues sound out of that old fiddle. I have about everything he recorded.

@johntait491 6 күн бұрын

Very handy for vamping on OBS. 😉

@lauriemcpherson7559 6 күн бұрын

Love it

@MarkHenjum 6 күн бұрын

This is an awesome lick.

@stevenorwood6164 9 күн бұрын

Ms. Megan I am watching you on the Kenny Baker tribute. On the Baker tune "Denver Belle," you said you didn't know if Kenny wrote this or not. I am going to tell you what I read on the cover of one of Kenny's albums. The one where he told where all the numbers on the album came from. He said the only people he ever heard play Denver Belle was his people. The only other person I ever heard play the tune besides Kenny was Paul Warren. The first time I ever heard Denver Belle, It set me on fire to learn to play the fiddle. The fiddler was the late Ronnie Hopkins from northeast Mississippi and he could play very well. I did learn to play fiddle later and I learned the tune well enough to have people request me to play it. I love your version of the tune.Old age and disease has hindered my playing and I don't play much any more. Thank you for what you do and keep fiddling.

@thomassturdivant6062 10 күн бұрын

What is that last song in the soundtrack? Great fiddle tune!

@MeganLynchChowning 10 күн бұрын

That’s Dorrigo, George Jackson’s viral original tune. There are quite a few versions of it on here. One of my faves!

@bakersk8er332 11 күн бұрын

That was wild

@johntait491 13 күн бұрын

Thank you Megan. This is helpful. 👍

@tophatbanjo 14 күн бұрын

Hi, Megan! All of your fingerboard tricks and tips are so interesting to me as an older guy who's just trying to play fiddle tunes. I tended to be a little nervous about trying to play tunes in keys with the tonic in places "between the fingers," but there are so many great tunes in those keys that I'm warming up to it of late, especially Bb and Eb with that L1 and then then F and C with L2. I've been playing "The Moving Cloud" (F) and then medleying right in to "President Garfield's Hornpipe (Bb), and those two tunes sound great together. If I get into Fiddlestar Camp this year, I'll play them for you, heh!

@GlennFiddles 14 күн бұрын

This is actually a tricky subject. If you tune your low first finger to the lower open drone, your first finger will be too high compared to where the Eb, Bb, F fall in 12-tone equal temperament. And so if you are playing with guitar or piano accompaniment, you will sound out of tune. Double stops get real messy when the open string is the third degree of the scale - much better when the open string is a 5th or root. It's only an issue if you are playing with accompaniment though. Solo fiddling can sound fine.

@MeganLynchChowning 14 күн бұрын

Hi Glenn, while I appreciate the deep dive into tempered tuning, we're just over here trying to help fiddle learners get to know the notes and where they are so they can have some fun playing fiddle with their friends. :)

@ssgiddyup 18 күн бұрын

Beautiful. Your emotion is so evident as you play.

@merljohnson3498 20 күн бұрын

Hell Yeah 😊

@aranshawcross9149 23 күн бұрын

Just great

@BrandonBentley-to4pu 28 күн бұрын

Beautiful arrangement I rembember I think I picked with you at bluegrass week once at Elkins I filled in for Kenny Smith. It also reminded me of a small kid everybody ignored he played limerick he loved my rythm and played for him I never liked that banging rythmn I always liked complimented the fiddle. Do you know Adam chowing? I have lookedball over hell and high water for him nice jod

@markllewellyn151 28 күн бұрын

Your playing and teaching has inspired me and I've been in love since I first heard you in Weiser as a contest fiddler. Although I can't move my bow arm anymore, due to a broken neck, I still listen and follow your playing. You've brought me many hours of joy and a hobby for many years. Thank you ...Mark from Santa Cruz, Ca..

@billweathers5080 28 күн бұрын

THIS is the very quintessence of making the fiddle sing. I’m so grateful to hear this. Not only my favorite, and one I argue is the finest of all the fine in the Great American Songbook, but one that also leaves me imagining my father, a Seabee in World War II, looking at the moon over Guam and my mother looking at the moon over Springfield, Tennessee. Thank you, Megan. Absolutely beautiful.

@Sparky-b2j Ай бұрын

Thank you for simplifying into the basic elements.

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you're finding it helpful.

@mandohat Ай бұрын

Do you keep a fiddle in that tuning, or do you tune down to play the song?

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

In my case, I generally just cross tune for whatever the situation requires. And I never leave a fiddle cross tuned up in pitch. Too much pressure on the top. Lots of my friends who play old time regularly keep two fiddles handy though.

@mandohat Ай бұрын

@MeganLynchChowning Thanks! One more question: when did the double shuffle start? Would people have been playing it with a double shuffle in a square dance 100 years ago? Who even started that technique? I remember watching Ricky Skaggs play at a casino in Illinois to a non bluegrass crowd. Add soon as Andy Leftwich went into a double-shuffle, the crowd went nuts. I was like, wow, people still are affected by that technique. It really caught me offguard

@mandohat Ай бұрын

I recognize this comment could have been an email. Or maybe a meeting.

@MandoSummers Ай бұрын

I don't know how these Kaplans slipped under my radar but I got one and BINGO!!! The whistle is gone!! I had it so bad I would play over E drone parts with some approximation. Now I can go back and learn them correctly! THANK YOU!!

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

Oh nice! I'm delighted to hear that. If I had these when I was a kid it would have saved me years of trying to work around those whistles, so I totally understand.

@MarkHenjum Ай бұрын

I recently saw a video of him singing Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go. Sweet! He seems like a very humble and gentle man.

@mactcampbell Ай бұрын

Nice!! I'm in the same boat. The report I read said that he lived in Louisiana for a number of years and then went to Cuba where he died of tuberculosis. I played it, listened to many many other musicians play it for decades, thinking it was by a European composer. It has been recorded by multiple world-famous orchestras. There are two more parts that aren't usually played by folk musicians, and there are key changes involved.

@tophatbanjo Ай бұрын

Megan! Great video, thanks! Bowing--that's the hardest part of the fiddle for me. It takes patience to bow well, and I don't have much patience, heh!

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

To this I can certainly relate... : )

@earlsinstrumentsandtunes9732 Ай бұрын

Great lesson, some good tips, thank you!! I've never heard it said like this before.

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

Oh cool, thanks for saying!

@bobsmagala3076 Ай бұрын

Looks like a lot of fun.

@markbyrum4743 Ай бұрын

Wonderful camp. Thank you, Megan and Adam, for opening your home for the onslaught of musicians seeking to learn and play and fellowship. Thank you!

@ssgiddyup Ай бұрын

That's so good to know! I did this for a while. I like the Helicores on my main fiddle as well but it seems like the A comes unravelled faster with my skin type. And I felt like I was wasting an E string. So I went back to all Zyex. I love knowing there is a set i can buy and NOT waste a string.

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

Yes! I'm so happy for this. Exactly my point.

@gbretz9494 Ай бұрын

Yes, came here for my Megan dose. I too love the Helicore heavies. People should be aware, the heavies have a titanium wrapped A string NOT the fragile aluminum wrapped A string found in the medium Helicores.

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

Exactly! The heavies are different and that difference makes them better, if you ask me. ; )

@kevindelaney685 Ай бұрын

What is the tune?

@DougWagner42 Ай бұрын

Gorgeous.

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

Such a stunning melody.

@beboron3930 Ай бұрын

Really nice!!

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@stevefeatherston4977 2 ай бұрын

Just listened to this yet again. I simply love your version. Almost makes we wish I'd picked up fiddle instead of guitar.

@MeganLynchChowning Ай бұрын

It's never too late! And thank you. : )

@Sparky-b2j 2 ай бұрын

This technigue is great for learning to hear chord changes and melody lines in a tune.