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| Posted: Fri Oct 20th, 2006 10:31 pm |
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Brad, Actually you just tune down 1 step on GDGD on the E and A string and up one step with AEAE on the G and D strings so it should not bust a string. Phil. Thanks so much for sharing your knowlege it's neat stuff! I only have a classical background but still quite ingnorant to the fiddle techniques. Last edited on Fri Oct 20th, 2006 10:40 pm by holleyhall ____________________ http://ezfolk.com/audio/holleyhall |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21st, 2006 01:13 am |
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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Yeah - but then you gotta tune back up!  Actually, for AEAE, you tune the G & D up a whole step each. (edit after posting: but you already said]/b] that!) I'm still trying to learn to play in GDAE well enough to start working on double stops. Brad Last edited on Sat Oct 21st, 2006 01:14 am by banjo brad ____________________ ezFolk Help Brad Prickly Pear Music Banjo Brad's ezFolk page TOTMC |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 7th, 2006 01:45 pm |
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Philj200 Approved 
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Just went back and looked at the chord chart early in this thread. Some double-stops have an "L" next to them. What does that mean?
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| Posted: Wed Nov 8th, 2006 06:43 pm |
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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Philj- That's one of the things about fiddle tab - there are so many different methods to denote de notes  What the 'L' means here is the lower finger position for that fingering,i.e. if you are using the first finger on the E string, the lower positioning is the 'F' note, the normal finger position is the F#. Now things get tricky, because the L may not be used if you are playing in a key that uses F natural in it (C). The 'normal' fingering would be '1', but an accidental F# would be indicated by a 'U1' or '1U.' That is one of the reasons I prefer notation for fiddle. The clearest tab I have seen for fiddle is used by Wayne Erbsen in his "Old Time Fiddle for the Complete Ignoramus" book. He places the note name on the string line instead of finger positions. The fretless nature of the fiddle makes most other methods hard to understand, and if you use tab, you need to learn each new method. Brad
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| Posted: Wed Nov 8th, 2006 09:14 pm |
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Philj200 Approved
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Thanks Brad. In the Middle Ages, there were ancestors of the fiddle that had frets. I remember seeing big old things, with wide necks and as I recall, six strings. It must have be a trial to get that under your neck. Maybe the played it cellolike? But when it was tuned up. An A was an A. And you knew where to find it.
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