Bruce MacGregor 'Bowing : Triplets' - Fiddle Lesson

[@captaindory]

I really like how you explain the mechanics as well as demonstrate how to play the triplets. Wagging the dog is a great way to explain the differences in the bow control and I might have missed it otherwise. Great! Thank you very much for posting this.

[@martensmith]

Thank you for posting this. The march is MacLean of Pennycross", third part.

[@tullochgorum]

Bruce Priceless! Thanks for sharing this. Unusual for a KZbin fiddle tutorial in that it's by someone who can really play and who really knows what he's talking about! Love your style - this is what Scottish fiddling should sound like!

[@TheWendable]

Thank you for posting this (and doing it really slowly for us)

[@JoeThanem]

Awesome! Thank you, what a coincendence, Exactly what I was looking for and needing help on, even the same tune i was having trouble with, Jenny Dang the Weaver. Please keep posting Scottish fiddle info!

[@1xstew]

Your triplet explanation is really clear . . this has helped a lot . . thank you Stewart

[@sgtcrab1]

@recita3004 "Brenda Stubbert's Reel" By Jerry Holland. He plays only the first par heret. It is on You tube somewhere.

[@cowpathmusic]

That's the sound right there, alright. Thank you.

[@violinstudyingpiano8352]

Beautiful Music!!!!!!

[@indiefilmandmusic]

Thanks for sharing this! I've always wanted to know what the heck that was.

[@mevmevmev]

I had been doing triplets as Down-Up-Down, but the closest sound I can get to matching this video is more like All 3 triplet notes on the Down bow and the up is to prepare for the next triplet. It seems the bow is bouncing to create the more agressive triplet. Is this correct? A 60fps video just isn't enough for this music :)

[@isabellanakahara]

Thanks for this! The quality of my triplets has been inconsistent. It is very helpful to hear that your right hand is very relaxed. .... the key! Very cool!

[@Stabby_Kitten]

what was that tune at 3:40? Was there more to it? it would be awesome to learn!

[@kaystewart6009]

Thank you sooooo much!

[@Banjo362]

I am using these bowing triplets for my old time and round peak stuff. I'm a banjo player really but I'm studying fiddle as well. So yeah I'm folkie:)

[@brucemacgregorfiddle]

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[@soslothful]

This is kind of funny. I was once talking with a violinist/fiddler who was telling me about some old bowing manuscripts which were ruined in a flood. So in complete honesty I asked, "Don't you just go back and forth?" He seemed rather displeased.

[@ecarneylaw]

Thank you!

[@MusicTate]

Hello Bruce. Would you be able to do a video on doing the sixteenth-note "runs" in strathspeys. They're very tricky. A video like this would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.

[@MrHarryt8]

Thanks Bruce, very helpful.

[@FeryAndrianus]

Hello Sir. Lucky to find your video here. Thanks. Really helpful video. I'm about to perform Tam Lin this August and really need to strengthen my triplet skill. Please advise how long it will take to master the triplet.

[@violinstudyingpiano8352]

I would like to learn how to play Morrison Jig!!!! ( rolls and bowing!

[@hypicsiamascarosi]

thank you a lot bruce, what brand of string are u using? thank you!

[@billmacaulay]

first time Ive had it clearly explained to me. Reading about it is no good at all . Well done that man.

[@catsandfangirls4509]

Am I doing it wrong if my wrist starts to ache while I practice these? Or is that normal?

[@fiddlegirl5]

If your wrist aches at all when practicing anything you are over extending yourself! Or your posture might be bad...

[@joefagan9335]

Your wrist should be floppy. The wrist does nothing in the triplet except flop around just like when you're cracking a whip. It's that that makes the first and 3rd notes of the triplet. The upstoke before the triple is like lifting the whip (the wrist will bend up if it's floppy) and then a quick downward snap of the forearm makes the first note then (and this is important) the forearm stops briefly, the hand continues naturally and reaches the end of its floppy and bounces back to make the 2nd note Then the forearm jerks down again to make the third note. So the hand does nothing except. The first note will pinch the string naturally. You can make the wrist just a little less floppy to get the up bounce in the wrist or the 2nd note. SO the forearm moves up slowly and the wrist gets into a cocked position bent slightly upwards. The forarm does the rest. IE down, stop, down. The arm does not come up in the middle of the triplet.

[@eccles99]

I wonder, do you absolutely HAVE to start the triplet on a downbow (as Bruce suggests)... or can an experienced player do triplets either on a downbow or an upbow? Anyway, great video, found it very useful.

[@tullochgorum6323]

I've seen a few players who can produce a crisp upbow birl. Far from essential, but quite nice for the occasional show-off flourish! There's a handful of tunes, such as the second part of Devil in the Kitchen, where fiddlers sometimes throw in three birls played in succession: Da-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da. Or even 4 in a row - here is Alasdair White doing this with upbow birls on the second part of Calder's Rant: kzbin.info/www/bejne/enLXp4xrYrmDpJo

[@eccles99]

@@tullochgorum6323 Yes, I've sort of now reached the conclusion that you're much better off if you can execute the "birl" equally well starting on an upbow or downbow. It might feel awkward at first, but it's roughly analogous to what a drummer has to learn to do-- a drummer needs to execute double/triple strokes with both the left and right hand. One obvious reason is that sometimes you won't have a choice-- like in the examples you mention. (Another example is the Natalie Macmaster version of "The Girls at Martinfield"). But more generally, I'm trying to get away from the preconceptions I learned in early classical training, where "upbows are for one kind of sound and downbows are for another kind of sound". You don't want to have to "plan out" your bowing so that big accents, birls, etc. all arrive on a downbow. I think Frankie Gavin said something to this effect once.

[@HarryHotspur100]

In Cape Breton they say you've got too, unless you're Ashley! Ashley MacIsaac, of course. Well now, I've been getting away with my every whichaway triplets for some time now. But they should be down/up/down! I'm only a chancer,albeit a respectful one. And..Christmas Eve is probably the best reel ever. Understood?

[@Banjo362]

hey what tuning is this?

[@Dabs222]

wow will take some serious practice

[@saberraimu]

I just can't for the life of me seem to do these no matter which videos or tutorials I've looked at. :( I wonder if my arm is just defective? I really want to play Scottish music but it has no life without these special effects.

[@sgtcrab1]

+Kristina Blair Have about four cappuchinos first! LOL!

[@sadafviolin]

don't give up! have you talked to your teacher about it?

[@JohnMcPhersonStrutt]

The next 100 views will likely be mine !