How to Play the Fiddle Using Reel Bowing Patterns

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Hi! I'm David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. You can visit my website www.davidkaynor.com. You can learn more about me and what I do and when and why. I'm going to talk about bowing patterns. The reels, reel r-e-e-l is consider the basic fiddle tune for bowing. Usually in 4/4 time or 2/2 time or 2/,4 time. The simplest way to bow a reel is to simply do all single strokes, every single note gets a bow stroke. Nearly every note got a bow stroke, and then there is the what is known by some people the Nashville Shuffle. It has actually been around before Nashville made into a city, but it is called the Nashville Shuffle because I think a lot of players in Nashville had got it into popular culture. That is either 2 notes slur, followed by 2 notes bowed or 2 notes bowed followed by 2 notes slur. Another fairly shuffle style is to bow 2 notes on one string and 2 notes on another string. And another is to bow 2 notes on one string, a third note on another string, and then 2 notes on one string and a note on another string, and you got a syncopated sound like this. And that was made popular in tunes like The Orange Blossom especially whichever shuffle part. And there is also more shuffle patterns, but those are probably the three that are most useful, or the four that are the most useful for playing reels in America fiddle.

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