Oh my goodness! Bow hand envy! One of the most fluid hand movers - it's like your hand is under water!

@MeganLynchChowning

18 күн бұрын

I will drop a quick note to my classical teachers who enforced all that technique stuff I hated when I was a kid. Turned out they were on to something... ;)

I want to dance!

@MeganLynchChowning

18 күн бұрын

Hey, that's what fiddling is for! Go for it!

Wow. I am utterly speechless. I will have to do a lot of work.

@MeganLynchChowning

3 ай бұрын

A little bit every day and we get better! Thank you for the kind words as well.

Great playing, love your rhythm

@MeganLynchChowning

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Sweet!! ❤️

@MeganLynchChowning

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Love it

@MeganLynchChowning

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Man, that right arm??!!

@MeganLynchChowning

7 ай бұрын

Aw, thanks! Lots of tedious practice.

Nice! So, would you have escaped the executioner with that rendition? ;-)

@MeganLynchChowning

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to think so. But man, high stakes either way.

Are you cross tuned for playing this?

@MeganLynchChowning

Жыл бұрын

Yep! I'm in cross A. So D up to E and G up to A.

Lovely! Is that Apalachian bluegrass? :)

@MeganLynchChowning

2 жыл бұрын

Sort of! Bluegrass is a different genre but it incorporates elements of Appalachian old time music, which this is.

@Melvorgazh

2 жыл бұрын

@@MeganLynchChowning Ah, interesting. I play mostly Celtic trad, especially Irish and I know bluegrass players sometimes play Irish tunes but with different beat and pulse. So they take from Old-Time Appalacian then? What is really Old-Time Music? I prefer to have yer answer than some musical dictionary or so. Appalcian Moutains seem very nice. Is the Moutain Dulcimer also originally from there +-? Cause it looks like an old European medieval instrument. Kind Regards from Belgium, Thomas(just the guitar but I sometimes sing in Irish and also in Breton).

@KesslerWatsonMusic

Жыл бұрын

Old time music is a collective of songs from Appalachia America, it is a more broad term which covers a larger variety of folk and traditional music - bluegrass is more specific and was started by Bill Monroe in the 40s-50s - it has very specific features such as the extravagant solos and more improvisation and instrumental virtuosity showcasing, whereas old time music is hundreds of years old and is a lot more down to earth, plain and played in a traditional style. The things valued in old time music are different such as maintaining original interpretation and utilizing techniques and voicings that are traditional rather than trying to do crazy solos and modernize the music. Bluegrass is also big on vocal harmonic duos/trios and that is one of the symbolic features of bluegrass music that you will hear, whereas old time many times is one or two singers singing with more simply harmonies or no harmony. Basically bluegrass is oldtime that was modernized and "jazzed up," and after it was started many other artists took bluegrass to a new level by writing songs and forming different bands, but it came from the old time music.

@Melvorgazh

Жыл бұрын

@@KesslerWatsonMusic That is a fine and interesting explanation , Lady Kessler. And how did Irish tunes came amongst bluegrass music ? I remember a few years ago I saw 2 really skilled guitar players whose names I forgot. They were playing Cooley's reel and having a lot of fun. It was outdoor , shiny alright and there was some festival background sound. One of they had a beard. But it didn't sound Irish really. I'd say the pulse and intonation didn't feel Irish 4/4 reel like. It's hard to explain. But I really liked it anyway. Kind greetings and I wish you a Happy New Year 2023! Thomas from Belgium

@KesslerWatsonMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@Melvorgazh well I am not a lady - I am a man. The Irish tunes were come into the old time music because our forefathers here in appalachia are mostly Irish and Scottish, and the further back you go in time (recording-wise and tune wise) the more Irish and Scottish bowing techniques you will find such as the music of "Jilson Setters" (JW Day) a blind fiddler from Kentucky and some others who recorded back in the 30s times, you can hear more ornamentation and voicings/bowings which are Irish or Scottish in origin.