If you can’t wait to get your hands on some tunes to play this weekend, you can purchase a PDF copy below. Preparatory scales and arpeggios are provided for each key, with introductory chord theory and chords for every tune, to help bridge players towards harmonic and chordal improvisation. Improvisation: Traditional techniques for adding slurs and ornaments allow the musician to play a tune differently each time. The 40 tunes in this book will provide lots of fresh music to play, and resources are included to find even more. The trick is in maintaining full-speed tempos, bowings, and ornaments while always reading at least one note ahead. Sightreading: Fiddle tunes can be deceptively simple to play at sight. The characteristic rapid string changes and off-beat slurs call for a relaxed, flexible technique and mindset. Guidance for turning tunes into finger exercises will get fingers flying faster and more accurately in no time!īowing Agility: Use fiddle tunes to focus on left side/right side coordination. Students can learn preparatory double-stop technique through the focus on “quiet fingers” that stay put as long as possible. Ornamentations increase the speed of finger dropping-and-lifting and can train a light, tension-free touch. First-position-only tunes can be played slow to fast while focusing on the following technical skills:įinger Dexterity: Fiddle tunes require rapid finger action on one or two strings. I put together this Fiddle Fundamentals Folio book to answer the question: “ Why play etudes when you can play fiddle tunes?” Introducing fiddle tunes into students’ (or your own) etude practice builds finger dexterity, bowing agility, and sight reading skills while also being FUN! I collected 40 toe-tapping traditional fiddle tunes and arranged them by key signature and sequential difficulty, from beginning to advanced levels. You can also grab a PDF copy right away via download purchase. Patrick’s Day! My recently released, curated collection of fiddle tunes is currently on sale at Amazon. If you purchase this arrangement, I’d welcome your feedback! Drop a comment below. Students can explore how Peter Warlock originally changed and enhanced the tune. Here’s the source tune for Bransles along with a demonstration of its dance. The highly expressive Pieds-en-l’air is a lovely stand-alone elegy, but with a title that will make students giggle (“Feet-in-the-air?”). Depending on the violinist’s technical level, they could choose to play one or more of the easier movements ( Basse-Danse, Pavane) or all six, including the unrelenting spiccatos in Bransles or the finger-twisting double stops in the finale of Mattachins. Suitable for intermediate to advanced violin players, the required techniques involve rapid tempos, spiccato bowing, some double stops, and expressive vibrato, with minimal shifting higher than 3rd position. This engaging suite of six Renaissance dance tunes, reimagined by Warlock (pseudonym of Philip Heseltine) for string orchestra in the 1920s, has been reduced to a solo violin piece with piano accompaniment. It’s also available right here, at a discount! I finally completed that project, and my arrangement is now available for digital download at Sheet Music Direct and Sheet Music Plus. Jump to news of a Beta test of a Live Performance audio setting! Follow these visual steps to update the Zoom app on your desktop or laptop, and configure the Audio settings for music lessons.Ĭontinue reading “ZOOM Settings for Online Music Lessons – Desktop Version” →Įver since Peter Warlock’s “Capriol Suite” for string orchestra entered public domain in 2022, I’ve been wanting to arrange it for solo violin so my students can enjoy its catchy Renaissance melodies and quirky 20th-century harmonies. The iPad settings are covered in this post. In the fall of 2022, Zoom specifically labeled their Original Sound feature to say “Original Sound for Musicians.” Clearly they are aware that using Zoom for music lessons is a very popular application! If you’ve never seen the “for Musicians” addition, or if you never got the audio settings just right, here is a quick guide to the desktop version of the app. the type of sounds that are generated by musical instruments! Zoom has had an “original sound” setting since 2020, which curbs their aggressive filter for these types of sounds. When using Zoom for online music lessons, both the teacher AND the student need to avoid using Zoom’s default sound settings! Zoom is primarily a verbal-communications app, so the default settings are designed to cancel out sustained background noise, high pitches etc.
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