Jenny Lynn (The Heel and Toe Polka) - Fiddle (Standard tuning: key of G)

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There are several tunes that go by the name of Jenny Lynn (and The Heel & Toe Polka). I learned this one from Rachel Eddy. Typical of Rachel, “this is my favorite fiddle tune.” In the A part, the tune features some quick chord changes with arpeggios and string crossing. To speed up our processing of the tune, I rely largely on one approach to bowing in this piece.

Here's What You Get:

$15 (Sheet music PLUS video lessons you can watch over and over, and play-through videos to practice along with)

Slower
Faster
Chords
Bowing
A part
B part

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The Sandbridge Old-time Fiddle Video Project

For the last few years, I have run a 3.5-day old-time fiddle retreat for intermediate level players in Sandbridge VA – The Sandbridge Old-Time Fiddle Retreat. We hold the workshop in a couple of beautiful oceanfront houses. We focus on a variety of bowing systems to create a solid groove, left-hand techniques (chording, slides, ornaments, 4th finger unisons etc), altered tunings, chord theory and more. For all the tunes, we prepare summary videos and provide written transcriptions with all bowings and notation of the left-hand techniques. I am pleased to now make many of these recordings available for everyone. The scope of material presented for each tune is comparable to several private lessons.

Topics covered in most of the videos include the following:

Basic melody broken down phrase by phrase
Bowings for all phrases
Bowing ideas include 3-1 bowing, Nashville shuffle, bow pulses, ghost bows, bow rocks
Rationale for bowing
Altered tunings include ADAE, ADAD, AEAE, AEAC#
Description of all chording
Left-hand techniques
Discussion of the chord progression
Variations
Written transcriptions with bowings and chords
Practice tracks along with a play-through of the full tune

See also Ken’s book Old-time Fiddle Style (Mel Bay, 2010)

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