You composed a very nice and special tune for André B. ! 🙂

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Yes, it can be distracting (especially when the tune has a lot of difficulties), i agree, but i prefer myself to have them on the performance video because it helps when i play alone with the backing track.

I have rhythmic issues and i’m not fully autonomous : so when i play with the backtrack, it can be helpful for me to go…[Read more]

With all of what you’re doing, i’m wondering if you can get some sleep sometimes….

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I’ve been thinking a lot but i can’t choose between the 3 i’d like to see published first so i put them and no matter the one, i’ll be very pleased ! :

– Jig Ati-toine

– Cypress Jig

– Passing Place

Thank you ! 🙂

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Yes, a very good arrangement i think, played by talented musicians !!

Hanneke will be proud 🙂

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I found a very cool arrangement of Hanneke’s (most famous ?!) tune : glass case of emotion.

Caroline Dressler (solo), Giulia Haible (cello) and the Boston Pops orchestra played last month their arrangement of the tune : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GuCppLAyWE (the second tune is Kohler’s hornpipe).

They won this year the “Fidelity…[Read more]

I hope you’ll do others duets together in the future and maybe others instructors could also do

some (Kevin/Niall ; Patti/André) …?

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I suppose that i have good taste !

Thank to you and hanneke for your work.

Kind regard,

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I don’t know if there’s any difference between chop in Irish fiddling and Scottish fiddling, but my interest is really Scottish fiddling : if Niall’s tutorial works to learn how to chop, that’s great (he’s an amazing fiddler).

If Hanneke agrees to introduce chop in her tutorials, that will be fantastic.

Thanks again,
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Well, first one to post…not a surprise : when i saw your topic, i jumped on it !! 😉

I have so many things to ask to Hanneke :

– First, i’ll request a technique tutorial about CHOP : i talked about that before, i’d like to learn how to do this and have exercices. May i also suggest to Hanneke to feel free to “chop” in her…[Read more]

Merry christmas to all of you.

Favorite christmas tune : N. Mac Master playing with Yo-Yo Ma the “christmas jig” :

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Thanks for your answer,

I totally get what you’re saying here : of course, fiddling music is not “frozen”. There’s no one way to do it but many and we have to explore, learn by ourselves for a big part.

However, i discovered, since i’m here on FV, that i made a lot of progress by taking the bowing and fingering of the instructors…[Read more]

Soooo, i’m not more aware of what’s going on with Hanneke’s variation because i can slow down the tune and ear/see the notes that she plays but the problem is the bowing because she’s doing a shuffle (that the “groovy kind of lick where she rocks between A and E strings whilst aiming for a G natural” that you talk about on your…[Read more]

I don’t have camera for skype because i don’t use it : it doesn’t work where i live (my internet connection is pretty slow since i live far from town).

I’ll try to figure out with mp3 file + slowing down the video performance. I will see my violin teacher next tuesday and i’ll show him the video.

I’ll let you know…[Read more]

I need a little help with Hanneke’s tune : Dot the dragon’s eyes. In the performance video, Hanneke does a little variation (mostly on the E string) at the end of the tune.

I know that the instructors don’t write their variations on the basic sheet version, but the problem is Hanneke doesn’t talk about it either in the advanced melody…[Read more]

Well, the one that i want now is : SOGGY’S !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉

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You’re right , this clip is very “inspiritional” ! Very beautiful. So is all Hanneke’s work 😉

Hopefully, we’ll have soon this wonderfull medley as tutorials.

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I second that request and may i add “Jig Ati-toine” ?

Just love them and especially this hanneke’s and David Wiesler’s (on piano) performance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N66xZly7irw

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