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Summary: Learn how to use an open string to give a reference tone when playing the fiddle with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip for beginners.
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David Kaynor David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley. He can be often found ... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi! I’m David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I’m going to use the basic scale in arpeggios exercise. I’ll start with the open G and play five notes of the G-scale up and down twice, then I arpegiate, but what I want to point out here is that in this scale it’s very easy and convenient to use the open strings. So I’ll go open G, open G, open G but it’s also the fourth finger, it’s a really misapplied and under appreciated finger among many fiddlers, and yet properly trained it’s a great asset to fiddle playing; and we got to trim the nail on it, why not put it to work. So I’ll use the fourth finger instead of the open D every other time I hit the D note, open D, fourth finger D, open, fourth finger D, open, fourth finger, open, open, fourth finger, open, fourth finger, open, fourth finger, open, fourth finger. Now what I’m trying to illustrate here is how to use the open string to give you a reference tone, and then use the fourth finger to create same tone as accurate as possible. Now I’m going to go over that again without talking…
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