Welcome to The Fiddler's Way. This channel is all about Fiddle Tunes and Celtic Music, and provides fiddle play alongs and violin tutorials for you to improve your playing. There are a number of easy fiddle tunes to learn. The format is play along fiddle tunes that start slow and gradually increase speed so that you can gradually get to grips with the notes. The majority of music on this channel will be Celtic music, but there is space for any tunes that are great to play at a session. I hope you enjoy The Fiddler's Way!
I just found your page and this is so helpful. I have been playing at a session for almost a year and some of the tunes I just have a hard time jumping in full blast (or we move from slow to full blast). I was just saying the other day it would be great to find someone playing it slow and then it progressively gets faster and faster (and faster!)! This is amazing. Thank you.
I love this song so much! I've been playing this song for months now, it's difficult and i cant speed it up, but i believe I'm getting better and faster every passing month.
I am currently learning the tune on the whistle. This playalong is perfect to practice and bringin it up to speed. Right now I can make it up to the 6:30 mark. Thanks a lot for the video!
Not only is this approach to instruction / learning helfpful, but the written music for this song here is a bit different from that which I've been using in "The Fiddler's Fakebook" which is based primarily on a string of six 8th notes, and THIS version is helpful to highlight what's likely a type of Irish / Jig "lilt," which is created not only by the syncopated rhythm but also the slurs that are shown. Thank you as this is VERY helpful to mastering this beautiful song!
THIS IS SO USEFUL - Believe it or not, I am a gigging musician (union performer) and my sight reading is terrible. I learn almost all my tunes by ear. THIS is a PERFECT way for me to get the tricks of this tune down so I have a hope of bringing it on board for the band I am in (where I can fill in for our regular whistle player if they can't make a gig. Even if just a simple basic version.) THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I appreciate the thought that you put into your videos. I want to learn all the tunes but I have trouble getting up to the final speed and these exercises as well as the others you offer are what I need. Thank you. Ro.
Thanks. I need something like this. Scales over and over again. I have trouble with keeping up with the intended speed of a tune and I start forgetting about basic things like hand position, scales, structure, posture, bowing...
I think the quavers are 100bpm (beats per minute), so if you set your metronome to 100 and played on every click, that’s the speed it starts at. Hope that helps :)
E minor - or to be more precise, E dorian, the scale with a flattened third, a raised sixth and a flattened seventh. It’s the second mode of the D major scale so shares the exact notes with that scale, therefore you can use a D major harmonica!
Thank you for these. I'm finding the sets very helpful in getting my confidence up to play in front of a few people..... not quite there yet 🙂Knowing what's played together in a set helps to progress from one tune to another which is great practice!
I already love your format and have seen great improvement in my playing using your playalong sessions, they truly are a huge help. I hope I might be able to sign up for Patreon soon but for now I have to rely on the generosity of talented folk such as yourself to assist with my self teaching. At the ripe old age of 68 and only a year of playing so far, I don't have huge ambitions other than to have fun and maybe one day give a little joy to others but with channels like yours I can see that being a reality. Thank you so very much. Bright Blessings to you for 2024 and good luck with the song writing, which I very much look forward to hearing. x
Thanks very much for your encouraging message. I hope that you continue to find fun and enjoyment in playing and I’m really happy that these videos I produce are helping to enable that. Happy New Year :)
This is such a pretty little tune. Can you please tell me what kind of ornamentation you apply later in the video. I'm a newbie fiddle player and only just completed my first year but finding your format so helpful. Thank you. later edit: Aha, just stumbled upon another tune being played elsewhere and the ornamentation was slowed, so I now realise it's a Roll? and woohoo I'm already doing them (just not as well as you ☺ which is why I didn't recognise). Onward and upward, now off to practice.
Hi there, glad you’re enjoying the format and great that you’ve discovered the roll. I’m planning on doing some more detailed videos and practice videos for all of these various elements this year. Thanks for the comment; feedback like this helps keep me going with the channel :)
