A collection of Irish fiddle lessons online, with videos covering tunes, bowing ornamentation and more.
In this lesson, I will teach you how to play a key ornament on the Irish fiddle – rolls. “This is one of the best detailed approaches in playing and practicing rolls out there! Thank You so much!” WEdHarris on Youtube Rolls are a crucial piece of Irish fiddle ornamentation. They are such an important … Read more
In my short Irish fiddle course, you will find FREE Irish fiddle lessons, covering a range of Irish fiddle tunes, techniques and playing advice. I hope you will enjoy the lessons in this course, and that they will help you take your fiddle further. In the first lessons in my Free Irish Fiddle Course, we … Read more
One of the things I occasionally get asked by those interested in playing Irish fiddle, is: ‘What is the normal Irish fiddle tuning?’. I think this can sometimes cause some confusion. Perhaps because people aren’t always sure about the difference between a fiddle and a violin. (Spoiler – there is no difference between a violin … Read more
If you’d like to learn a traditional Irish jig on the fiddle, here is a great tune to learn. The Hag with the Money is a very old song, which you can still hear sung in Ireland today. It is also a well known Irish session tune, and a common tune to hear played on … Read more
Here is one of my top tips for practising Irish fiddle ornaments. This is a trick that I suggest to many of my students for building up confidence and speed in playing Irish fiddle ornaments, but it can also be used for practising all sorts of other techniques that you are working on. Watch the … Read more
Here you will find guides to the techniques of Irish fiddle ornamentation. I will take you through some of the most important Irish fiddle ornaments: long rolls, cuts, slides, bowed triplets, crans, casadhs, short rolls, joint short rolls and more. Playing with good ornamentation is key to getting that authentic Irish sound. I sometime talk … Read more
If you are just starting out learning how to play Irish fiddle music, you may find that you are struggling to get your fiddle playing to sound authetically Irish. Or you can’t seem to replicate the sound of the fiddlers that you like listening to. So how can you achieve that authetic traditional Irish sound … Read more