Cajun and Creole Fiddle 101 

Love the Cajun head swing, really does add to the sound. Only thing to add is the old Cajuns didn't just tap their toes they "tapped" their whole foot. I love that sound. Alot of the old Tex-German fiddlers did foot stomp also. My grand uncles played fiddle, they learned from their father. I remember when my großmutter died and all the kinfolks came to our house. My uncle Pete played so long he stomped about a foot square area in Daddy's prize carpet grass. I remember watching them play. They were tall men with huge fingers that never seemed to have trouble hitting the exact spot although they only used 3 fingers. The only trouble they had was sometimes at a party, towards the end of the night, everyone would be dancing and the song would go on and on and on. It wasn't until I was grown that I realized they had had a little to much "fun" and couldn't find the end of the song.

I really think the foot stomping is being under utilized. That helps immensely

Cajun music with a Welsh flag on the t-shirt. Yessir.

Just keep this music going to my ears, please. I'm lovin this.

Thanks! Very helpful for adding that Cajun flavor.

Love your channel

This gave me a ton of warmup/exercises ideas. Thanks!

Oh my! I love that sound!

Great video! Thanks Mitch

Wow . . Thanks very much for this, really helpful advice. I'd almost given up trying to play Cajun style . . just couldn't get "the feel". Will get my fiddle out tomorrow and give it another go! Thanks again.

I love your playing. I am taking all your lessons. You are great..do not stop giving us videos.

Brilliant stuff love it

I like your Welsh dragon t shirt, plus the music of course.

this is the best god damn way to play

Terrific - now if only I could afford to have two bug-eaten bows restrung!!!!

thank you

I just heard some cajun fiddling last night and wanted to know what makes it cajun. You helped me out! Thanks, I love the sound. PS That's my real name.

Sounds like back home. Thanks, man

Hey! Da Iawn! Un dragon du Pays de Galles! Un beau salut du Québec! Let us know next time you are passing through: Great music!

I love the foot stomp. Better than a standup bass for keeping the beat. I hope you have good wood floors in Maine, otherwise you might have to move back down South.

bro, thanks for the video! this is the first of your videos that i have watched! i hit "subscribe" in like 2 nanoseconds. what are the names of the tunes you used in the g chord demo and waltz demo? i trained classically as a teen but got bored or burned and havnt played in years. you just saved my violin from ebay (serious) thanks

Hi, Mitch, thank you for this video! There isn't much on Cajun fiddling on youtube, so this gives a nice free intro. Do you have to tune down or can you play in standard tuning if you want?

Could you post a video on what a good bow does for tone? Thanks Mitch

Really good tutorial Mitch! Thanks for your time and effort!! The tune down is to accommodate the accordion?

Great stuff Mitch! I just learned a basic version of "Cajun Fiddle" from "Fiddlehed". You've given me some terrific ideas! Unless I missed it, you and he did not discuss slurring. How important is this?

Nice tutorial. Left out that you are tuned 1-step down.

This is cool. Are your strings tuned differently?

Great video Mitch. Are you tuned GDAE?

Mitch do you give lessons in the Baton Rouge area?

Mitch, where would you say the shuffle bowing technique came from? I once had a blue grass fiddler ask me but I couldn't pin point it with a single fiddler. Leo Soileau? Doc Guidry? This guy told me he didn't think Dennis McGee was a Cajun fiddler at all because he didn't have that shuffle beat, but he was thinking about Doug Kershaw and Diggy Liggy Lo, Louisiana Man. I replied that if Dennis McGee isn't Cajun fiddling then nobody is! Ha!

your tuning is the standar of violin? GDAE?

Hey Mitch, stupid question for you... can a no experience beginner learn to play Cajun fiddle without lessons? Or is that too much to hope for? Thank you for any advice.

Reed, huh. I bet we're cousins.

Where do I buy one???

you really might mention that you aren't tuned standard thx cu