Steve Lundgren’s forty-four comments

What a bunch of MacGyvers, especially the pipers! more…

There are some great suggestions here. Learning nowadays can be a multi-media event. There are tons of good tunes and videos on Youtube, and it has a slow-down function that really helps. You can slow a tune to half speed but it doesn’t change the pitch. more…

Rosin more…

I can only speak for myself here. I spend a lot of time analyzing in the day job, so this music is the place my lizard brain can run free. I don’t disdain analysis, but there are areas in life I chose to act rather than think. more…

Whatever tempo you’re shooting for, I would suggest you start playing a tune slowly and bring it up a bit at a time. Basically, I won’t practice a tune any faster than I can play the hardest part cleanly. more…

In my experience, Tonicas are pretty sedate strings. I agree with CreadurMawnOrganig about having the sound post checked by a good fiddle tech. more…

“If you already know all the tunes, please ignore.” ;> more…

Ooh, nice tune…Squirrel! Nope. Never happens to me. more…

Somebody up top made the point that a lot of these tunes are standards for a reason: they’re good tunes. I cycle through my repertoire, as I’m sure everybody does. It’s fun to come back to tunes I learned 25 years ago. more…

Good deal. It seems like it might be good for even the long-established sessions to let folks know if they’re still doing it. I was contemplating taking a trip out of my area, and in checking some of the sessions I found a lot of the info was pre-covid. more…