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2pm ET, Sun Oct 13 with Ed Pearlman
Free workshop for all levels
“New” & easy way to reach higher notes
Especially for intermediate and advanced players, this workshop will give you practice with a “new” method for reaching higher notes on any string, especially useful for tunes that go a little higher on the E string, as some great tunes do. No need to shy away from them, and if you’ve learned classical violin, it’s often much easier to do it this way than to shift up to 3d position, which is the default choice for most violinists.
Common among violinists in the baroque era up until 1820, when the chin rest was invented, and typically used by fiddlers then and since then, this method of crawling instead of shifting presents a lot of opportunity to fiddlers wanting to play tunes such as the Quebecois “Pointe au Pic,” the Scottish reel “MacArthur’s Road,” Cape Breton’s “Highland Jig” and many more.
For more background about this technique, read my online article “Crawling vs Shifting.” This technique has been championed by the virtuoso violinist Ruggiero Ricci, a master of Paganini’s music, who pointed out Paganini’s mysterious comment that his secret to playing was to use only one hand position. But it’s also a technique that you’ll see used by older (and not so old) traditional fiddlers.
This workshop will be free to all.
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