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Here's a step-by-step lesson on how to play Cajun Fiddle. Thanks to everyone who voted on which tunes would be in the next lesson. We will do that again soon.
We’ll first learn a version of this great tune without double stops. I’ll get into the double stops in a follow-up video.
00:41 Tune
A1 PART
02:45 First quarter: (D1-2-H3-A0-1-0)-1-2-2-0-1-2-2-0-1-2-2-1-3-2-1-0
05:03 First quarter played slowly & Kitty Quote
05:47 Second quarter: E0-1-1-A3-E0-1-1-A3-E0-1-1-A3-EL2-1-0-A3
07:03 Second quarter
Third quarter: A1-2-2-0-1-2-2-0-1-2-2-1-3-2-1-0
07:34 Fourth quarter: D2-H3-A1-1-D2-H3-A1-2-1
08:28 Fourth quarter
08:44 A1 part
A2 PART
First quarter: (D1-2-H3-A0-1-0)-1-2-2-0-1-2-2-0-1-2-2-1-3-2-1-0
Second quarter: E0-1-1-A3-E0-1-1-A3-E0-1-1-A3-EL2-1-0-A3
10:00 Third quarter: A2-4-4-4-4-2-E0-3-1-2-0-2-1-0-2-0
11:52 Third quarter played slowly
12:11 Fourth quarter: E1-3-3-3-1-3-3-4-3
13:05 A2 part
B PART
13:54 First quarter: (E3-0-2-0-1-0)-1-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-3-2-1-0
15:20 First quarter
15:42 Second quarter: E1-3-3-3-E1-3-3-3-E1-3-3-0-L2-1-0-A3
16:57 Second quarter
17:11 Third quarter: E0-1-1-L2-1-0-A3-E0-A3-E0-0-1-0-A2-1-0
18:08 Third quarter
Fourth quarter: D2-H3-A1-1-D2-H3-A1-2-1
18:50 B part
{Comments} If 4th finger is hard for you, just substitute open E (E0) for A4. Where there’s a will there’s a way...or something. Notice that
Warm ups:
A major scale, lower and upper octave:
G1-2-Hi3-D0-1-2-Hi3-A0
A0-1-2-3-E0-1-2-3
A2-E0-A2-4
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18 янв 2017