Hi! Welcome to OnlineLessonVideos. I’m Ian Walsh. And today, I’m going to teach you a tune called Angelina Baker on the Fiddle. And in this lesson, I’m going to you the middle octave and the lower octave and then we’ll go back to the middle octave again. And we’re going to play it along with a jam track.
So here’s a sample of what we’re going to learn today, Angelina Baker in the key of D. [Demonstration]
So Angelina Baker begins on the A string here and the notes, we play it A-B-D, A-B-D. So let’s just try bow that out now and we have [Demonstration]. Let’s go over that section a few times, so you can get it in your head [Demonstration].
Okay from there, we play some similar notes. We start with the A-B-D [Demonstration]. Okay, so we play A-B-D-B-A [Demonstration].
Let’s put those two things together and cycle them for a few times [Demonstration].
Okay, now I’m going to show two droning double staffs you can do with this. The first one, we’re going to use is with an open D. So all you have to do to get this is let your bow blend—instead of just the A string, you want to let your bow hit the D string as well. So we start off with just the fifth, A and D, bow strings together. And now, we’re going to try to play through that sequence of notes, blending on the D string [Demonstration].
Okay, last now you’re playing the B with the open D is basically creating your G chord if you’re copying this tune, that’s why you would definitely play G chord. So instead of playing the B and the D, we can play a B and G right there which I sometimes do in this tune. So let’s try that three times. Here’s what it should look like [Demonstration].
Okay, so it’s just your G double staff there. It’s a G and a B. Here it does again [Demonstration].
Okay, there’s another double staff drone you can use here. This one involves the forefinger A on the D string and then the open A [Demonstration]. So they should sound pretty close together. And then from here, you just play the same notes that we’ve been playing all along—A-B-D, A-B-D.
Now, you try to hold this forefinger independently, all the other fingers here which can be a little tricky. So this is the trickier of the tune. Here what it should look like [Demonstration]. And we’re going to use that G and B. You could also then use the B and the open D. Let’s try it again [Demonstration].
Okay, let’s move on and learn some of the rest in first part here.
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