How To Play Back-up Chords On The Fiddle (Part 1) 

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David, there are some videos on chords for the violin, if that is what you mean. How to Build Chords on the Fiddle is one. Chord Rhythms, How to Play Backup Chords on the Fiddle (4). Search You Tube ---> Chords FiddleHed and you should see them.

John, a drone is created by playing an open string next to the string where you are playing the note for the tune. The easiest thing for a beginner to do is to play the drone on the string AWAY from your fingers. The pairs you write are correct. You can play the drone on the other string (open E when note on A, open A when note on D, open D when note on G) but you have to arch your fingers over that open string to reach the string with the note for the tune. Your fingers are more likely to hit that open string if you try to arch over them and you will corrupt the sound of the open string. Once you have a feel for the drone, it is easy to play the open string on either side of the string with the note.

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+Robert Gillespie You could strum it like a mandolin or do some cross string bowing.

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You want G3 D4 A4 E5.

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Lots of combinations can work.

Lindsay...you invert a chord by using the same notes in the chord but changing their order. G - B - D could be played B - D - G or D - G - B, etc. They have different sounds but they are all G chords. A minor chord has one of the notes slightly lowered. An inversion does not. The notes remain the same.

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+dianne pittman Yes. There;s more chords you could make with the C string. But you can play all or most of the chords in this video. Best to you

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Try leaning away from the open string

+norman mcdowell When you're bowing any string on its own, it's ok for your fingers to also be on an adjacent string - since it's not being sounded, it doesn't matter if it's fingered by accident or not while the sounded string is being fingered. If you're double-stopping a pair of strings, place your finger on whichever string you're fingering as far to the side of the string away from its partner string as possible. This is true even if fingering both strings, and again, it's ok if the fingers also cover the strings not being played in the double stop, since they're not sounded it makes no difference. So basically you're allowing your fingers to 'overflow' and spill off the strings they're aimed at, as long as it doesn't effect the sound that's made.

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