Irish Fiddle Playing

Contents

• IMPROVING YOUR PLAYING
• The Fingering Hand 1: Improving Intonation
• The Fingering Hand 2: The Reverse Cut
• The Fingering Hand 3: Minimising Movement
• The Fingering Hand 4: Slides
• The Bowing Hand 1: String Crossing
• The Bowing Hand 2: Dynamics
• The Bowing Hand 3: Playing on More than One String
• Learning Tunes from Written Music or Why Doesn?t the Tune in My Collection Sound Right?
• Case Study 1: The Rose in the Heather
• Case Study 2: The Killaloe Boat
• Case Study 3: Saint Anne?s Reel
• Improvisation
• Fiddle or Violin? - Classical Converts
• Playing with Other Musicians - Sessions and Get-Togethers
• Putting Sets of Tunes Together - Scales and Modes
• Improvising in Songs
• Star of the County Down
• Transposing
• Explanation of Symbols Used
• Jigs
• Cock o? the North
• Father O?Flynn
• The Rambling Pitchfork
• The Rose in the Heather
• The Orphan
• Up Sligo
• The Mooncoin Jig
• Hornpipes
• Chief O?Neill?s Favourite
• The Rights of Man
• The Ghost
• Polkas
• The Glen Cottage Polka
• Oh Those Britches Full of Stitches
• The Road to Lisdoonvarna (slide)
• The Foxhunter?s Jig (slip jig)
• Rodney?s Glory (set dance)
• Reels
• Man of the House
• The Monaghan Twig
• P J Hayes?
• Toss the Feathers in D
• The Flogging Reel
• Jennie?s Chickens
• O? Dowd?s Favourite
• The Bank of Ireland
• The Chicago Reel in B-flat
• The Drunken Landlady
• The Congress Reel
• The High Reel
• Paddy Ryan?s Dream
• Sergeant Early?s Dream
• The Silver Spire
• Tamlin
• The Woman of the House
• The Cup of Tea
• Over the Moor to Maggie
• Appendix A: Set-up of the Instrument
• Appendix B: Common Scales in Irish Music