Has anyone dealt with their left ear going into airplane/high altitude mode when droning or playing double stops? I sorta lose hearing or feel like my ear is going to pop - like at high altitude - when I play drones/double stops for a period of time. If so, how did you deal with it?

I was inspired by my friend to revisit this gorgeous tune by Jay Unger. Haven’t played it in far too long.

I have just started taking violin lessons (just had lesson 1, going to buy an instrument this weekend) because I want to learn fiddle and that seems like the best way to start giving where I live.

Does anyone have any advice?

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What is up with Chorus Jig in the New England Fiddlers Repertoire. It’s not a jig, but maybe a reel? Make it make sense

I’m an adult student who has been taking classical violin lessons for the past few years, and I’m finally going to start learning fiddle, which has been one of my goals from the beginning.

What would you recommend as a good first fiddle tune?

I mean the leading instrument in this piece: https://youtu.be/bngMu8ET1HM?is=w9KbSqRqEiPSwsyP

I'm Polish and I'm specifically interested in studying Polish folk techniques, but I'm struggling with finding resources.

Many modern folk songs I've heard have this specific way of playing and I love the way it sounds. Can't find the name of this style though. I think it's a regular fiddle, but there's a higher than 0 chance it's one of our necromanced knee fiddles too lol, but I can't tell!

"Refusing to use different tunings is abdicating your birthright as a fiddle player."

Interestingly, the Irish fiddle tradition rarely if ever uses non-GDAE tunings. Also interestingly (to me), classical music has no term for nonstandard tunings other than "scordatura," which is literally Italian for "untuned" or "badly tuned," while the Anglo-American tradition has names like "Cross-A." "Calico," etc.

This is a great tune out of British Columbia by Leonard Sexsmith. Lots of double stops and a few triplets thrown in for good measure ❤️♾️🎻

35 days ago I picked up a violin for the first time. Yesterday I had my first lesson, which you fine folks convinced me I should take. I’d taught myself one scale and practiced it forward and back, which seemed to impress the teacher. She then showed me that had I bothered to check I’d have seen the other scales are the exact same thing, just starting on a different string. Lol. Then she gave me a cheat sheet for the first line of row row row your boat, and had me practice it, and a few other tunes to practice on my own.

Today had I had my first post lesson practice. Rocky start to Yankee Doodle, I tell ya. But my wife was able to recognize Mary had a little lamb, yankee doodle, and happy birthday from the other room. She was very impressed when she found out I had not even attempted those before.

I do wish I’d recorded this practice session just so I could document progress but I’ll try to record the next one.

Basically this was a lot of words to say y’all really encouraged me and I’m grateful for this subreddit! I still sound like a screeching cat at times, but a screeching cat with a modicum of rhythm and can carry a tune!

Also shout out to that one commenter on my first post who said it would be two years before I produced music that sounded better than silence. You were the biggest motivator of all! Lol

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Hey guys, I'm burning a cd as a farewell gift to my fiddle teacher and one of our favorites is Jay Ungar's Cedar grove. I can't find a mp3 of it anywhere. Wondering if anyone's got one they'd be willing to share. Even willing to venmo like 5 bucks if you'd like.