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PLAYING TOGETHER 2015/16 FUN FIDDLE
FUN FIDDLEfunfiddle.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Fun-Fiddle-Book-2015.pdf · Use your Playing Together book, or Fiddle Time Joggers to help develop your reading skills. Each time
Scales, arpeggios and exercisesWhat scales are you learning at
the moment? Whatever grade you are at, pick three scales for each
practise.Play them through twice each, with separate bows and slurs
(Or using the ‘everybody down up rhythm if you haven’t got that far
yet)Play ‘Once a man fell in a well’ twice on each string to get
that little finger strengthened up
Pieces
What pieces are you learning at the moment? It might be re-ally
tempting to play them all the way through straight away, but a good
way of practising is to go to any bit that you find tricky and play
it over three or four times. Then go back to the beginning of the
piece – Hopefully as you practise in this way your pieces will
become fluent
Sight Reading
Learning to read music is really important – Just as impor-tant
as learning to play by ear. The more you do it the bet-ter you get.
Use your Playing Together book, or Fiddle Time Joggers to help
develop your reading skills. Each time you practise, pick a couple
of tunes you don’t already know, and practice reading by sight.
Building up your tunes library!
It’s always good to keep your old tunes alive – Finish up by
playing through some older tunes, or tunes you were working on last
term
The Animals
Polka Round
Chocolate Cake Round
All the notes in 1st Position
Portobello Prom
Tuireadh Iain Ruaidh(Iain Ruaidh’s Lament)
Harmony
The Burn o’ Craigie
The Wedderburn Reel
Easy Harmony
Easy Harmony for Rocking the Baby
Da Slockit Light
Donald Blue
Tom Anderson
Traditional
Over the Waterfall
Violin
5
Vln.
Cripple Creek
Violin
5
Vln.
h = 60
Traditional Breton
Arr. Donald Knox
The Wren
Fiddle 1
Fiddle 2
Fiddle 3
5
9
13
2.
final time only:
Easy Harmony
Inisheer Harmony
Violin
9
Vln.
Easy Harmony
Harmony
Fantevalsen - Easy Harmony
Violin
9
Vln.
FantevalsenViolin
6 1.
2.
3
12
18 1.
2.
Harmony 1
Harmony 2
The Messy HairMicha Cooper
1.
2.
Violin
6 1.
2.
Vln.
These tunes were written by Fun Fiddle Kids - Why don’t you have
a go at writing a tune? It’s Fun!
Mangaster Voe Tom Anderson
The Mothers of St Ann´sDonald Knox (Scottish Borders, 2006)
= 88
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Rhythm: slow airNotes: Composed at St Ann´s College, August
2006, while there with Riddell Fiddles (37 of us: men, kids and all
theirmothers!)
Mothers of St Ann´s − harmonyDonald Knox (Scottish Borders,
2006)
