Midnight on the Water (fiddle lesson)

[@pamfoster6621]

Thank you so much for this!!!!

[@RUNNOFT71]

Great lesson my friend, thank you for the inspiration!

[@TheFiddleChannel]

You're welcome!

[@michaelhutchens4243]

Such a beautiful song, you did it justice. (Thanks for the shout out) Love the Bluegrass songs

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Thanks Michael!

[@joeharris8574]

Really nice tune Chris thanks.

[@hrobert745]

Wow it’s quite different from the version I’m learning. More melodic. Very pretty. I look forward to trying the alternate tuning. I second the request for Bonaparte’s Retreat.

[@karenbohac1735]

This is really nice! I really enjoyed the dead man’s tuning! Often this played along with Bonaparte’s Retreat. Would you consider doing a lesson on Bonaparte’s Retreat in dead man’s tuning as well?

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Yes, that's a good idea. I'll put it on the list!

[@marleneruppert1874]

Beautiful, but I'm confused.......after you play it through plain in the beginning, you then start to add drones and ornamentation. You said the first few bars you can add an open D drone, but I'm not sure how you are doing that and playing the melody on the D string. I must be missing something. Thank you for clearing this up, cuz I really like your version.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Hi Marlene.Sorry to mislead you. They were actually open A drones played over melody notes on the D string.

[@terset9912]

thanks for asking Marlene, glad Chris cleared this up as well.

[@StrumHollow]

At first, I thought you called the tuning GDad. That's sometimes referred to as "leave it to Beaver" tuning :) I have an octave fiddle or chin cello and was wondering about putting the heavier G string on with standard strings for DDad tuning with less flopping.

[@snotpu]

Sometimes the G string is tuned down to D? I think Tyler Childers' version is in that tuning.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Yes, I play both GDAD and standard tuning in this video.

[@snotpu]

@@TheFiddleChannel I got that. But what about DDAD? the D being an octave lower.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

@@snotpu Sorry, I meant DDAD!