Watch violin techniques in slow motion! See the détaché, pizzicato and vibrato with a high-speed camera. Great close up for ...
Darol Anger grips his bow loosely, wrist bent, and smacks it against the strings of his fiddle. The resulting sound, a small crunch, is like the crackle of a very tiny drum. “You can get some nice ...
River-rafting isn't usually on the agenda at a violin workshop, but sometimes it helps keep the music flowing. After days of mastering bow technique, experimenting with hand drums and turning ...
Fiddler Casey Driessen has been an instructor at six music camps this summer, many of which have some form of the word “bluegrass” in their name. The lessons to his students, most of them ...
If you're training to be a concert violinist, you don't want your technique to be merely "good enough." A new computer system may soon be able to help, as it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to ...
Dana School of Music will host a Fiddle Day on April 10 online. The event was created by Dana violin lecturer Wendy Case and the Youngstown State University Strings Guild to showcase the various forms ...