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Megan Lynch Chowning - FiddleStar
Приєднався 4 вер 2006
I play and teach the fiddle. This channel is all about that! I focus on bluegrass, Texas/contest style, and old time fiddle styles and here's a link to my bio, if you want to know more. www.fiddlestar.com/about-megan.php
SYSPTW - Auld Lang Syne with droning
Something You Should Practice This Weekend - Auld Lang Syne with droning
Happy New Year, my friends! This weekend I thought we could do something a little more involved and you know, drone and shift and really get into an elevated Auld Lang Syne. I’ve been so grateful for all of your kindness, thoughtful comments, and general good nature toward these videos. I love making them and I love all of you for engaging with them so positively. Sometimes the internet is a bit of a dire place, but very rarely do I have to see any of that negativity because you all are so amazing. Thank you, and here’s to another year of happy fiddling. 💜
Happy New Year, my friends! This weekend I thought we could do something a little more involved and you know, drone and shift and really get into an elevated Auld Lang Syne. I’ve been so grateful for all of your kindness, thoughtful comments, and general good nature toward these videos. I love making them and I love all of you for engaging with them so positively. Sometimes the internet is a bit of a dire place, but very rarely do I have to see any of that negativity because you all are so amazing. Thank you, and here’s to another year of happy fiddling. 💜
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SYSPTW - Chubby Wise Bluegrass Stomp lick
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SYSPTW - Chubby Wise Bluegrass Stomp lick
SYSPTW - get to know your fingerboard (add 2nd finger below)
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Something You Should Practice This Weekend - get to know your fingerboard (add 2nd finger below) Please stop forgetting about your 2nd finger. It’s very cool and a different sound than the double 1st finger.
SYSPTW - get to know your fingerboard (low 1s)
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Something You Should Practice This Weekend - get to know your fingerboard (low 1s) Hi friends! It’s a series within a series! Or whatever. You know I love to name stuff. This weekend we’re gonna learn what’s up with low first fingers. What can we add to them? What are they doing there? You know, stuff like that. And join me in the December Zoom workshops at www.fiddlestar.com where we will lear...
Jake Workman Flatpick Zoom Workshops coming January 2025!
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Sign up HERE! www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/Zoom-Workshops.php Here's what Jake had to say about this upcoming series... Hey everybody, I’m very much looking forward to working with you all again through Nashville Acoustic Camps! I had a great time last January and am looking forward to another round. In each of these 4 weeks we will study a different OPEN key (G, C, D and A), and use standard...
SYSPTW - I’ll Be Seeing You
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Something You Should Practice This Weekend - an elegy of sorts
SYSPTW - equal volume bow sections
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Something You Should Practice This Weekend - equal volume bow sections Hi friends! It’s still all about tone tone tone or rather, it’s really about volume this time. But it’s tone adjacent. Reminds me of the time Alan Munde said, “When banjo players talk about tone, they’re mostly talking about volume.” And here we are following in their banjo footsteps. But the point is, learn how to create eq...
SYSPTW - shuffling for tone
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Something You Should Practice This Weekend - shuffling for tone We’re not done talking about tone! Because truly, is your tone perfect yet? Exactly, mine neither. So here we go. Also, you can always sign up for my twice monthly Zoom workshops and learn lots more stuff like this. Link is you know where. #fiddle #fiddlestar #fiddlelessons
Adam Hurt - Mastering the Mechanics of Tone Production workshop coming December 3, 2024!
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So excited to have Adam Hurt back for a single night workshop on creating beautiful banjo tone. Sign up here - the workshop will be recorded so you do not need to attend live. www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/Zoom-Workshops.php
SYSPTW - long bows for tone
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Something You Should Practice This Weekend - long bows for tone Is your tone awesome? Could it be more awesome? Start here. #fiddle #fiddlestar #fiddlelessons
Nashville Flatpick Camp Fall 2024
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We love our Flatpick Campers! What a great staff - Chris Eldridge, Kenny Smith, Adam Schlenker, and Forrest O’Connor. Thank you to everyone who attended and we can’t wait til Spring 2025! Soundtrack by Adam Schlenker and Mighty Poplar www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com
SYSPTW - finding the 5
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Something You Should Practice This Weekend - finding the 5 Hi friends! The five chord is very easy to find on the fiddle. But it can also be easy to forget. So this is your reminder, and a couple of cool things to do to help cement it into your brain for use in a jam, maybe even this weekend! #fiddle #fiddlestar #fiddlelessons
New Solo Dobro Zoom Workshops with Ivan Rosenberg! Starting October 2024
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Register here - you do not need to attend live - all workshops recorded! www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/Zoom-Workshops.php
SYSPTW - key of B tag with double slide 4th finger
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SYSPTW - key of B tag with double slide 4th finger
SYSPTW - descending chromatic 3/1 lick
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SYSPTW - descending chromatic 3/1 lick
SYSPTW - chromatic bow crossing fill
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SYSPTW - chromatic bow crossing fill
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Really good version.
I love "dixieland" jazz music, irish dance, blues, country, bluegrass, cajun and .... "texas" fiddle which has it all...
Beautiful, Lass. Burch
Hi Megan, this is Claude. I am getting back to you to get name of the contact for selling my fiddle. I can’t find the message you sent me. Thanks
great video... hii, it's me again.. how are you...? I just found out that you have made a lot of videos.. I apologize if I don't open all the videos... I only saw some of them which are bluegrass fiddle lessons for practicing... just for hobbies and fun... Happy New Year Madam... I'm sorry I didn't celebrate Christmas because I'm Muslim... Thank you so much to all of you ❤
hii.. wonderful... I'm from Indonesia... this video will help me to learn how to play bluegrass fiddle.. thank's Madam...
You are so welcome! And I really hope you enjoy playing bluegrass fiddle in Indonesia. I know there are a few other bluegrass players there so I wish you much success!
I really appreciate your videos. Thanks, and Happy New Year!
I truly appreciate hearing that. Happy New Year to you and much fiddling joy in 2025!
Ah! One of my favorite tunes! I taught the Robbie Burns poem to my tenth-graders many times and all about how many cultures have this idea of not letting the good old days be forgotten. T-minus 109 hours until Fiddlestar Camp 2025 registrations open up! ☺
Beautiful - I love Burns and this poem and I'm so glad you're planning to come to camp!
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Happy birthday Ms Megan! Have a wonderful holiday week. And thank you for all these videos.
Thank you! And it's my pleasure.
Thanks for all the advice over the last 12 months Megan. Happy birthday. 🍷🍷
It's been my pleasure - thank you for all the kind words and staying in touch here. It really means a lot to me.
Chubby was my favorite fiddler and he could get that blues sound out of that old fiddle. I have about everything he recorded.
A truly excellent and inspiring player. You have great taste!
Very handy for vamping on OBS. 😉
Oh yes! Excellent point.
Love it
Yay, I'm glad!
This is an awesome lick.
Woot! Glad you like it!
Ms. Megan I am watching you on the Kenny Baker tribute. On the Baker tune "Denver Belle," you said you didn't know if Kenny wrote this or not. I am going to tell you what I read on the cover of one of Kenny's albums. The one where he told where all the numbers on the album came from. He said the only people he ever heard play Denver Belle was his people. The only other person I ever heard play the tune besides Kenny was Paul Warren. The first time I ever heard Denver Belle, It set me on fire to learn to play the fiddle. The fiddler was the late Ronnie Hopkins from northeast Mississippi and he could play very well. I did learn to play fiddle later and I learned the tune well enough to have people request me to play it. I love your version of the tune.Old age and disease has hindered my playing and I don't play much any more. Thank you for what you do and keep fiddling.
I really appreciate you sharing this - I'm sorry you aren't playing anymore and I wish you weren't facing those challenges. But we can keep loving and appreciating good music and Denver Belle is one of the best tunes. My best to you and your family in the New Year.
What is that last song in the soundtrack? Great fiddle tune!
That’s Dorrigo, George Jackson’s viral original tune. There are quite a few versions of it on here. One of my faves!
That was wild
We don't disagree.
Thank you Megan. This is helpful. 👍
Hi, Megan! All of your fingerboard tricks and tips are so interesting to me as an older guy who's just trying to play fiddle tunes. I tended to be a little nervous about trying to play tunes in keys with the tonic in places "between the fingers," but there are so many great tunes in those keys that I'm warming up to it of late, especially Bb and Eb with that L1 and then then F and C with L2. I've been playing "The Moving Cloud" (F) and then medleying right in to "President Garfield's Hornpipe (Bb), and those two tunes sound great together. If I get into Fiddlestar Camp this year, I'll play them for you, heh!
Oh yes! This is a great combo of tunes - awesome idea. And I want all the keys to get some love. They deserve it.
@@MeganLynchChowning Yeah...not G#, though. T minus 37 hours until registration for Fiddlestar Camp opens up....
This is actually a tricky subject. If you tune your low first finger to the lower open drone, your first finger will be too high compared to where the Eb, Bb, F fall in 12-tone equal temperament. And so if you are playing with guitar or piano accompaniment, you will sound out of tune. Double stops get real messy when the open string is the third degree of the scale - much better when the open string is a 5th or root. It's only an issue if you are playing with accompaniment though. Solo fiddling can sound fine.
Hi Glenn, while I appreciate the deep dive into tempered tuning, we're just over here trying to help fiddle learners get to know the notes and where they are so they can have some fun playing fiddle with their friends. :)
Beautiful. Your emotion is so evident as you play.
Thank you.
Hell Yeah 😊
Much appreciated. ;)
Just great
Thank you!
Beautiful arrangement I rembember I think I picked with you at bluegrass week once at Elkins I filled in for Kenny Smith. It also reminded me of a small kid everybody ignored he played limerick he loved my rythm and played for him I never liked that banging rythmn I always liked complimented the fiddle. Do you know Adam chowing? I have lookedball over hell and high water for him nice jod
Your playing and teaching has inspired me and I've been in love since I first heard you in Weiser as a contest fiddler. Although I can't move my bow arm anymore, due to a broken neck, I still listen and follow your playing. You've brought me many hours of joy and a hobby for many years. Thank you ...Mark from Santa Cruz, Ca..
Always lovely to hear from you Mark! Wishing you all the best and most healing thoughts.
THIS is the very quintessence of making the fiddle sing. I’m so grateful to hear this. Not only my favorite, and one I argue is the finest of all the fine in the Great American Songbook, but one that also leaves me imagining my father, a Seabee in World War II, looking at the moon over Guam and my mother looking at the moon over Springfield, Tennessee. Thank you, Megan. Absolutely beautiful.
Now that's a poetic vision. Thank you for sharing that.
Thank you for simplifying into the basic elements.
My pleasure! Glad you're finding it helpful.
Do you keep a fiddle in that tuning, or do you tune down to play the song?
In my case, I generally just cross tune for whatever the situation requires. And I never leave a fiddle cross tuned up in pitch. Too much pressure on the top. Lots of my friends who play old time regularly keep two fiddles handy though.
@MeganLynchChowning Thanks! One more question: when did the double shuffle start? Would people have been playing it with a double shuffle in a square dance 100 years ago? Who even started that technique? I remember watching Ricky Skaggs play at a casino in Illinois to a non bluegrass crowd. Add soon as Andy Leftwich went into a double-shuffle, the crowd went nuts. I was like, wow, people still are affected by that technique. It really caught me offguard
I recognize this comment could have been an email. Or maybe a meeting.
@@mandohat For many years, the double shuffle was actually outlawed at the National Old Time Fiddlers Contest in Weiser, ID as well as many other contests, especially in the West. The idea, from what I understand, was that since contests used to be audience judged, and audiences were absolutely gobsmacked by the double shuffle (as you observed), it would give any player who used it an unfair advantage. These days most contests use proper judges and the double shuffle is allowed again - which is great because a few tunes actually include the double shuffle as a part of the actual melody. According to some research, Joe Venuti is the first or one of the first to record double shuffle. This is a fabulous history of Texas style fiddling which talks about Venuti and the double shuffle a bit. www.totfa.org/about/stories/texas_fiddle.htm
@@mandohat Sure, but why would we deprive the people of this epic nerdom?
I don't know how these Kaplans slipped under my radar but I got one and BINGO!!! The whistle is gone!! I had it so bad I would play over E drone parts with some approximation. Now I can go back and learn them correctly! THANK YOU!!
Oh nice! I'm delighted to hear that. If I had these when I was a kid it would have saved me years of trying to work around those whistles, so I totally understand.
I recently saw a video of him singing Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go. Sweet! He seems like a very humble and gentle man.
Nice!! I'm in the same boat. The report I read said that he lived in Louisiana for a number of years and then went to Cuba where he died of tuberculosis. I played it, listened to many many other musicians play it for decades, thinking it was by a European composer. It has been recorded by multiple world-famous orchestras. There are two more parts that aren't usually played by folk musicians, and there are key changes involved.
Megan! Great video, thanks! Bowing--that's the hardest part of the fiddle for me. It takes patience to bow well, and I don't have much patience, heh!
To this I can certainly relate... : )
Great lesson, some good tips, thank you!! I've never heard it said like this before.
Oh cool, thanks for saying!
Looks like a lot of fun.
We always have a good time, you know that.
Wonderful camp. Thank you, Megan and Adam, for opening your home for the onslaught of musicians seeking to learn and play and fellowship. Thank you!
Always delightful having you here, Mark!
That's so good to know! I did this for a while. I like the Helicores on my main fiddle as well but it seems like the A comes unravelled faster with my skin type. And I felt like I was wasting an E string. So I went back to all Zyex. I love knowing there is a set i can buy and NOT waste a string.
Yes! I'm so happy for this. Exactly my point.
Yes, came here for my Megan dose. I too love the Helicore heavies. People should be aware, the heavies have a titanium wrapped A string NOT the fragile aluminum wrapped A string found in the medium Helicores.
Exactly! The heavies are different and that difference makes them better, if you ask me. ; )
What is the tune?
There's Smith's Reel, then Forked Deer, then I Don't Love Nobody, then Sally Goodin.
@ thanks!
Gorgeous.
Such a stunning melody.
Really nice!!
Thank you!