Fiddle music

[Ron Lacey]

Stan,

Do you mean on the bass? If so, I've played some traditional fiddle tunes (some probably Irish in origin) on the bass (pizzacato not arco) as an exercise (and because its fun). Since the violin is tuned in fifths and the bass in fourths, I think it's a good exercise to find the notes using tunes I can sing in my sleep. It would be fun to do them arco, but I need to develop better bow skills before I try it.

[stan haskins]

Yeah, I mean on the bass.

So you took some fiddle tunes and play the melodies pizzicato? Interesting. Do you have recordings?

I want to learn some of the fiddle music I've been listening to, with the bow. Bass fiddle, right? I like the way they throw their bow around and play across the strings percussively, and I like how you can hear lots of little shifts in weight during a single bow stroke. The stuff I'm listening to now is from Nova Scotia - very different from anything I've heard before. I hope to get time to play something like it. Summer project, I guess. Between bouts of house painting.