Activity

Exciting!! Thanks for the preview.

Andrea

Excellent – looking forward to the lessons. Andre is a captivating fiddler!

WOW, So glad he did the station master waltz!!

Hi Casey, Wow Thanks for the sneak peak. Andre is Truly a master at his craft showing unbridled joy and freedom in his performance. I love fiddlers whose joyful souls come out in their music. Cheers, Roland

FM. Check this post out.

Hey Patti!

Thank you for the recommendation! I found Stobbe’s book on his website! I also saw a lot of discussion boards online buzzing about this particular book and how the exercises are exceptional. I am definitely getting this book; it takes about 3 weeks for it to arrive in the US, so it will probably arrive it in late October. I am going…[Read more]

Patti – if you find a source for Carol Ann’s book in Canada can you please post it? I’m not having any luck. And I totally agree regarding Gordon’s Red Book, and all his other books – wonderful.

Andrea

Greetings Kevin Alexander!

Thank you for the suggestion! I found the book on Amazon, it seems to be out of print, luckily I was able to find a copy for under $6 in new condition! I am so excited to use this book.

Super appreciative, many thanks!

Hello, Casey!

I am hoping you have the time, as well! Thank you for taking my suggestions into consideration.

Enjoy the new studio! Can’t wait to see more videos and instruction :)!

Yeah, FM. But we’ll get there!!

Update: we cut guitar for 12 tunes this weekend. There will also be at least 3 technique tutorials in the initial release of Andre’s material.

Oh my gosh! You have been doing all of this in addition to a full time job? Wow. I hope you get a really good and long vacation someday.

OK, NewFiddler. Thx for that info. I think if you stay on a video page for a long enough period, that error will come up…it shouldn’t the first time through a video, but if you stop it and wait a while, it might happen. Hopefully that’s what’s going on. Let me know if it’s an issue. Thx!!

C

In the last day I have gotten an error message partway through playback of a couple of the tutorial videos… It said “HTML5: Network error… Please reload the page and try again.” I am using a windows laptop. When I would reload the page it would have to buffer again but it played fine. Hope that helps!

Hi Fiddlededee,

If you’re a note reader, one book that I always recommend to students is Gordon Stobbe’s Red Book of Scales and Arpeggios. It’s a book written with a fiddler in mind, in keys that we mostly play in, and what’s REALLY cool is that many of the exercises are very “fiddly,” meaning that the movements are typical of what you might…[Read more]

Hi NewFiddlier,

I competed in fiddle contests from the age of 7 up until the age of about 27. I found that the older I got, the more nervous I got, which is probably why I stopped when I did.

When students show an interest in competing, I always tell them to make sure they prepare their tunes to the point where they can play them in their…[Read more]

Hi New Fiddler,

That’s a great article by Donna Hebert. I remember reading it and am happy to have seen it again. She explains it quite well.

As mentioned, we fiddlers tend to play music for dancing, and when I do, I watch the dancers on the floor, find the best ones, and play to them.

We emphasize the off beats, and I think you can also…[Read more]

Yep. Except for a few random phrases I assume are québécois cursing.

This is great news! Thanks, Casey. It probably goes without saying, but I have a small but relevant (petite mais pertinente) question… will his lessons be in English?