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Holding Your Fiddle

This lesson is part of the course Beginning Celtic Fiddle with Emerald Rae.
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Learn to play the fiddle from scratch using traditional Scottish and Irish melodies. With essential techniques for both hands.
 
 
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Holding Your Fiddle  
 
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Holding Your Fiddle
Holding Your Fiddle
 

In this lesson, Emerald gives you advice on holding the fiddle and positioning your body in a relaxed way to avoid injury and tension. She talks about starting with good posture, so you have a good foundation to add your fiddle to; using a shoulder rest; positioning your fiddle on your shoulder and collarbone and your chin in the chin rest; resting the neck of the fiddle between the base of your thumb and the first knuckle of your index finger, etc.


 
 
 
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