Fiddlevideo | Bob Jackson | Activity https://www.fiddlevideo.com/members/bojax/activity/ Activity feed for Bob Jackson. Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:49:49 -0800 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 c2e8da32f9e7de092240e29fabdbce71 Bob Jackson replied to the topic Slurs in the forum Fiddling Techniques and Playing Advice https://www.fiddlevideo.com/forums/topic/slurs/#post-4807 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:32:27 -0800 Thanks for the reply Casey! I’m a big Ron Stewart fan and, watching his videos, he actually slurs less than I would have thought (his tune, Stewart’s Dream, is an example where I would have done more slurring than he actually does). It seems to me like straight bluegrass players do a whole lot of single bowing and try to keep the slurs very…[Read more]

]]> 0 f43416bd4fb1b7d9d68a341e50457d10 Bob Jackson started the topic Slurs in the forum Fiddling Techniques and Playing Advice https://www.fiddlevideo.com/forums/topic/slurs/ Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:24:45 -0800 Hi Casey,

I wondered if you have any thoughts on when to slur notes in a fiddle tune? If you are learning a tune by ear, and not able to see the bow, its sometimes difficult to hear when notes are slurred and when the bow strokes are separate. I know this is largely a matter of style, and there are no hard and fast rules, but do you have any…[Read more]

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