Technique Tutorial – Fiddle Turnarounds
In this lesson, Megan Lynch Chowning discusses the two most common fiddle turnarounds used in country and bluegrass fiddling genera (1511 and 4511). We hope you enjoy this excerpt of the course.
Feel free to check out Megan’s great lessons covering The Nashville Number System…that series will be very helpful as you work your way through this lesson:
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Free muffins and free root beer! Your tutorials are interesting, knowledgable and they have lots of good humour!… It’s a pleasure to be learning from you.
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! Hey, if you can’t have a little fun while you’re doing these things, what’s the point, right? Happy fiddling!
Hey Megan, I don’t know if you will read this or not but this video really helped me. I am a seasoned player that came out of a bluegrass, pop, classical, Irish background and I moved from a city to my rural hometown to care for my aging mother. There are very few fiddlers in this area and so I slowly but surely have been taking on permenant weekly gigs. These gigs are all classic country and country. I didn’t know how to kick off a song save the life of me because I thought I needed to know the song. Holy cow, this was a life saving video. You are right. I play every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights with bands. All I can say is thanks so much. What I could not figure out in 18 months, you helped me to learn in one short video. Great video!
I love the down and dirty! Just the facts ma’m!!! Well done!
To me Megan Lynch Chowning absolutely has been the very best addition to Fiddle video instruction, I learned so much from her tutorials from A to Z Thanks , Megan sincerely Jon Baldock
This video seems like an excerpt..is there a complete lesson on turnarounds?
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In the mean time, please clear your web browser cache and log back into the website. You should then see the subscriber content. Again, I apologize for this issue. I’ll email you as well.