Old time fiddle bowing technique

[@tartufelena2269]

Hello musicians! Greetings from France 🇫🇷

[@melanielinkous8746]

Hello, fellow fiddlers! Much love from Florida.

[@jonmichaelswift]

This is so useful! My students and I have a lot to work on!

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Yes, this will keep you busy for a while!

[@petehealy9819]

Very, very helpful! Once a Music major and grad student, I had a long career completely unrelated to music; and now in retirement, I'm a fiddle newbie (well, 18 months in). My ear-training skills from way back have come back to life, but so has my need to understand techniques in a larger musical context as I learn them. This video does exactly that, so thank you very much!

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Thanks Pete, glad you found this useful!

[@trstkw]

Ty so much for this video!!

[@TheFiddleChannel]

You're welcome!

[@michabiaowas-fiddlerskrzyp5240]

Profesional musician and passion :)

[@Alan_Jozua]

Amazing video! I’ve been playing banjo, bass, and mandolin in bluegrass and old time settings for years, and decided to pick up the fiddle for the first time last week. This video has helped me start improvising on the fiddle within my first week! Cheers for that mate:) will subscribe and watch all your oldtime/bluegrass related videos.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Hi Joshua. Glad you enjoyed this! It's good to hear you're making such fast progress.

[@ssgiddyup]

I hadn't given shuffles, other than Nashville, much thought before this. Very well-presented.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Thanks, glad you found it interesting!

[@grahamsheppard2067]

Great explanation of Shuffles used in old time fiddling. Many tunes naturally apply a shuffle but recognizing them is often challenging. This helps!

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Hi Graham. Glad you found this useful!

[@Judymontel]

Priceless!! Thank you!! So needed you back when I was first learning fiddle tunes to play for contra dances! But you've reignited my enthusiasm even if I don't currently have a band to play with... one step at a time! (I like to practice the various bowings, like in Georgia shuffle, without the instrument just to get the muscles coordinated without the ear suffering too much! 😂)

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Hi Judy, glad you found this useful!

[@Judymontel]

@@TheFiddleChannel Very! I'll have to go over all the rhythms again to see which one is the one used in the June Apple bowing pattern (A part) - now that's a bouncy one!

[@kathleengarrett8600]

Brilliant tutorials 👌

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Thanks Kathleen!

[@Jleed989]

The idea seems to be that you become so fluent in these patterns that you flow from one to another without really thinking about it.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Yes, that's absolutely it!

[@drgerni]

Chris, I signed of for your patreon channel, yet now I am told I need to sign up again. What can be done?

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Hi. I see you signed up in January. Maybe you signed up for six months and now that period has finished?

[@jonbrown7868]

Hokum bow.... like 15s

[@jonbrown7868]

Triplets in an odd number are sweet

[@lonelyhashbrown]

The Em comes first in B. S

[@jonbrown7868]

Makes me feel like im just sawing on a log too hard. I need to up the ante hoss.

[@jonbrown7868]

Me, not you Sir