All right, welcome to OnlineLessonVideos. I’m Ian Walsh here to teach you an Irish tune on the fiddle today, it’s called the Tamlin and it’s in the key of D minor and it’s a lot of fun to play. It’s a good session tune. I think it has some roots in Scottish music too.
So, this is it, the Tamlin. I’m going to start it off with a sample of the tune and then we’ll get into the lesson [Demonstration].
So before we begin learning the notes in the first part of the Tamlin, I’m going to just show you some of the positions of your fingers are going to be in a lot. If you’re run up the G string here, you start your A and then your B is going to be in that low position right next to your first finger. And then a full step for the third finger, and the forefinger would be the D or the next string here. And then you follow that same pattern for the D string.
So these are some of the notes you’ll be playing, kind of these low twos, [Demonstration] and then the open, so you can use the open strings.
So let me show three different ways to kind of kick off this tune and play some of these notes. First, let’s get these notes in your head. We have this low A, [Demonstration]. And the notes you’re balancing between there are A and an open D and then the low two position, that’s F natural here. So let me show you that again, [Demonstration]. You’re rocking your bow back and forth, so you’re constantly going back to that A and the G, [Demonstration].
From there, we move up to the B position and you pretty much follow the same pattern, [Demonstration]. That’s a little trickier to hit. You have to kind of move your hand over to get it. So let’s start with the A [Demonstration], walk up to the B [Demonstration] and then for the next one we walk up to the C [demonstration]. Now, the pattern changes a little bit for this one. You’re not going to use the open anymore. You get your first finger in the position on the D string, creating an E note. And then you’re going to rock between back to the C and then to the G [Demonstration].
Now to get back down and out of this and kind of—repetitive part, you start on the F, [Demonstration]. So let me put that together for you, [Demonstration], and then you’ll repeat. Let’s try it one more time, [Demonstration].
Okay, now instead of just this long kind of boring notes in the beginning, we can either do a roll on the A [Demonstration], roll the B, [Demonstration] and then you can roll the C, or instead of rolls if you’re not feeling up to doing them, you can use triples. So you start off with [Demonstration]. Let’s do it with rolls, [Demonstration] and with triples [Demonstration]. And let’s just do it with the long notes [Demonstration].
Okay, let’s learn the second half of this first part.
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