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Services We Provide
- Violins
- Violin Tutoring
- Advice to musicians
- Setting up of Violins
- Ebay Store
- More instruments. Coming soon..
Violins
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Violin Tutoring
Beginners’ Fiddle Tuition.
Myddo’s Music can now offer beginners fiddle/violin tuition with an emphasis on a traditional/folk style and learning by ear. Adults or children catered for and loan instruments can be arranged. Half-hour lessons are at our premises in Langwarrin, Victoria (near Frankston) or at your address, at extra cost, if the distance isn’t too great. Written material for your reference/practise will be provided for each lesson.
Topics covered include:
- Parts of the fiddle and bow and how they work. Caring for your violin and bow. Accessories.
- Standard tuning GDAE. Holding the fiddle and bow, classical and folk positions.
- Basic bowing e.g. single bows, slurs, triplets.
- Basic fingering. 1st tune. Parts of tunes, simple exercises and riffs.
- Scale of D major.
- Scale of A major.
- Scale of G major over 2 octaves.
- Introduction to minor keys.
- Basic music theory in relation to the fiddle.
- More tunes including a polka, jig, reel, and waltz.
- Introduction to basic ornamentation.
Tunes you will learn to play (if you practise) include:
Old MacDonald
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Frere Jacque
The Star of the County Down
Bill Sullivan’s Polka
Murphy’s Polka
Preston’s Jig
Sixpenny Money (jig)
South Wind (waltz)
The Man in the Moon (waltz)
Shaskeen Reel
The Battle of Aughrim (reel)
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Advice to Musicians
Professional set up of Violins
Violins
