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General: new to 5 string fiddle

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    • CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2007
     
    i have recenty converted one of my fiddles to 5 string and the extra depth and tone if great. i play some bluegrass and are looking for songs that lends its self well to the 5 string
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    I find almost any style of music that is primarily improvised lends itself to a 5 string. www.sweetstrings.biz
    • CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeDec 6th 2007
     
    thanks celticagent

    i have come so accustomed to picking songs through reading music sometimes find it dificult to improvice, need more practice of the improvised side to fiddling visited your sweetstring site, thanks for advice
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    Maybe Darol can help you out. I think he knows a little bit about selecting songs for the 5-string!! LOL!
    I read on one of the forums that one player found that some of the sax lead parts that he had like were now in the range of the violin because of the "C" string. I don't know if that helps any.
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    I'm not sure if anyone has written any songs that use all five strings, yet. I play old-time music, and I find that I can play all of them in two octaves. Take a fiddle tune that you know well and pick out the tune an octave down. The fingering changes by 1. Don't try to read the music (there isn't any, anyway). Another technique: playing a fiddle tune 1 string down. If you know "Ashokan Farewll," try starting it on the D string instead of the A string. Play it there and then switch up a fifth the second time through. This will drive all of your band members crazy, if they have never learned that tune in G.
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    Check this link out. http://www.archive.org/details/BaroqueFantasiaFor5StringViolin nice classical work.
    I know that this forum has some extremely talented classical players who also play other genres, like Lauren Rioux and many others who I do not know. It would be great if some of you folks who have classical chops could lets us hear you play some beautiful classical selections using a 5 string.

    If you want to hear a great "Ashokan Farewell" go to my website and hear Darol play it. He did it as a quickie for me as a sample but he still blows me away with his touch and feel for the song.
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    I did something similar as altofiddler with two irish slip jigs, the butterfly followed by the kid on the mountain. they are very standard tunes but sound great played one string (not octave) down. I played this as a duo with a low-whistle, and that sounded very nice and gave the tunes quite a different mood. i suppose you could do the same with some bluegrass tunes?

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