5 TIPS for learning fiddle tunes BY EAR

[@randysanders777]

You are teaching me to play great mandolin . I follow you and I'm having more success than any other method tried. Plus I live the music you vhoise. Thanks

[@robertshorthill6836]

Hello! The Silver Spire has been one of my favorite tunes for a long time. I first heard it played by Peakfiddler and tried to play it on mandolin since I don't play fiddle. Yes I listened to it played many times at slower speed and gradually worked it up. A very great tune, I should add. Thank you very much. Bob

[@kelleysmith8079]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh thank you!!! you are such a great find! i play a few instruments by ear, and i have been playing with bands, but i have never fiddled and am super intimidated because the notes seem to go super fast, and i'm not classically trained, so anything above an eighth note is like toooooo faaaast! i'm moving to nashville in a month or so though, so i figure i better add fiddling. hiding behind rhythmic bowing will only get me so far!!! i'm heading to your patreon page now!

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

You've got this!! Let me know how Nashville is. Tempting to move there... :)

[@sman5877]

i like the way you hold the bow. i thought the bow had to be held at the end .

[@eg8736]

hey! this is such a helpful video. i play fiddle but haven't picked up my instrument in probably 5 years so i'm slowly getting the muscle memory back in prep for a slow jam session. i don't know how to play by ear, i'm a sheet music person, and i also don't know arpeggios or how keys work. where do you suggest i start on learning those? do you have videos on that, or outside resources? thank you! (edit: like, i'm not bad or a beginner at fiddling, i just struggle greatly with picking up a tune by ear)

[@keithcary5103]

Huzzah! This is excellent! You get so much relaxed teaching done in a really short time. (And relaxed is all-important in this subject!) Thanks a bunch!

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

Ain't that the truth!

[@Dominochaney]

I have solely learned from KZbin for a year and so far your videos are some of the best they aren’t rushed explained well for a novice and teaching fun songs are achievable I would recommend you over others for a beginner to gain confidence and want to continue.

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

Wow, thank you so much, Ryan!!

[@johnhipp604]

​can I ask you something

[@sgtcrab2569]

Find the left hand notes on a mandolin. The frets simplify things.

[@Xaforn]

My teacher told me I played by ear which apparently impressed her and I didn’t even realize I was doing it. I read sheet music just fine too. My frustration is converting what’s in my head to the instrument, but I have trouble doing that with words anyway when speaking.

[@puppy6039]

I can't listen and play

[@jsmbrown]

Great tips. Song sounds like whiskey before breakfast.

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

It does!

[@johngross9394]

I started on by ear harmonica then piano guitar then violin by ear that's when I started to learn reading sheet music . acappela choir helped out alot

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

Singing is a HUGE help.

[@cearuilinjayne745]

I started Irish Violin. Sharon Corr plays flawless and intune so well, she was classically trained. I found a tutor and am Baroue/Classically trained and I study Irish Violin in my own time. it helps so much to so 'How to play' by the book, then you know how to 'Not play by the book' and can mix up a set list for live performance with Irish and Classical or even give Classical phrases an Irish lilt at times. It all came fro mBaroque music Irish Violin went one way, and Classical the other way

[@Donargot]

Is that the "Whisky before Breakfast" Tune you're playing at the end?

[@JustFiddler]

bagus sekali ! matur suksma

[@mariasargent7742]

Excellent advice, Thank you!

[@mrneil2]

Love the tone of your fiddle. Can you tell us about it?

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

It's from France, lateish 1800s! It's factory-made and at the time it was actually not a top-o'-the-line violin by any means, but I LOVE its sound and am so grateful to have it. A friend of mine actually gave it to me.

[@williambradford3627]

@@LizFaiellaMusic It has a great sound!!

[@Xaforn]

@@LizFaiellaMusic beautiful sound

[@stanjohnson591]

The violin I see looks very much like a JACQUES. BOCQUAY hand crafted in Paris, France made between 1723-1736 the maker's death. If the neck is grafted, & a label that is correct would help . I have studied this maker, it screams Bocquay, Boquay. What else would cause that sound?

[@she___wolf8306]

-If I had not but time and money on my hands.

[@raymondblacklock]

sometimes I can hear something and play it no problem. I once learned a tune by ear and when I played it with back up it was all out of meter so kinda made me not trust myself. A teacher I took lessons from once told me I just needed a shot of tequila

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

Now THAT should have been tip #6 in this video

[@josequins9099]

What a gorgeous fiddle! I don't often see such dark polish.

[@LizFaiellaMusic]

I love it too!! Thank you!