Adding Ornamentation When Playing the Fiddle

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Hello! I'm David Kaynor on behalf of expertvillage.com. I have my own website www.davidkaynor.com and I encourage you to visit it. I'm going to talk very briefly, all too briefly really, about ornamentation in fiddle music. So left hand ornamentation involves several different specific techniques; I think the simplest to describe is the slide. The slide is simply start the notes slightly low, and then the finger moves up until you are playing the note that is called for. Next maybe would be the trail where you play the note below and the principle note, and the note below again and the principle note, and do that several times. Then there is using the note above which has another name; I think it might be called a mortem or something like that. Then there is the basic in what in Irish music is called the roll, where you play the principle note a note above it and the principle note again, and then a note below it and then the principle note. If you play like I just did it, it would be called a 5 note roll 1,2,3,4,5 and different players become known for distinctive approaches to the 5 note roll, and there is much controversy about when it sounds authentically Irish or when it sounds authentically like some Irish master. Some of us just don't really worry about that but just try to make it sound interesting. So you get this kind of sound I'm going to try to use all the ornaments that I just talked about.

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