Nice job. Thank you. I'm from the Ottawa Valley and the fiddling style here is heavily influenced by the Irish and the French -played fast and without embellishment. The Scottish style is so much more precise and pretty. The Cape Breton style is much more like yours only perhaps a little less so. As a former piper, I can appreciate the addition of the grace notes.
From what I learned around guitarists: Hammer Ons use the percussive sound that's generated from the finger striking and sounding out a specific note. As a fiddler: cuts are very quick mutes with the finger--it doesn't necessarily go down all the way, it just stops the string for a moment to make a musical stutter. There are artistic liberties one can take that blur the distinction of course--Mr. MacGregor presses down enough to make the next note barely sound, which creates a sort of trill.
When you play a hammer-on with a guitar, it's when you pick the string slightly before you fret it, but once it's fretted, it stays fretted, unlike with a cut or double cut on fiddle. A cut is a brief on-off, so brief and light that it's often barely heard as a tone, especially on a double cut, and depending on the player. But you don't put your finger down and leave it down, like with a hammer-on I think the trill-like thing your hearing which isn't an actual trill is a double cut.
Is there a difference between what you're calling a "Hammer On" and a "Cut"?? I've always thought of a Hammer On being a slightly delayed hitting of one note and holding it... not followed by a finger lift.
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What's the name of the tune in the beginning? It is really nice!
*should have said "sometimes" does a trill/roll. Also, these are educated guesses when it comes to vocabulary--I'm self-taught in most of this, but the techniques I described should be useful to know regardless of what they're called.
Nice to hear warmth in these tunes and great lesson, many thanks.
Nice job. Thank you. I'm from the Ottawa Valley and the fiddling style here is heavily influenced by the Irish and the French -played fast and without embellishment. The Scottish style is so much more precise and pretty. The Cape Breton style is much more like yours only perhaps a little less so. As a former piper, I can appreciate the addition of the grace notes.
Wonderful, helpful video. Thanks!
From what I learned around guitarists: Hammer Ons use the percussive sound that's generated from the finger striking and sounding out a specific note. As a fiddler: cuts are very quick mutes with the finger--it doesn't necessarily go down all the way, it just stops the string for a moment to make a musical stutter. There are artistic liberties one can take that blur the distinction of course--Mr. MacGregor presses down enough to make the next note barely sound, which creates a sort of trill.
When you play a hammer-on with a guitar, it's when you pick the string slightly before you fret it, but once it's fretted, it stays fretted, unlike with a cut or double cut on fiddle.
A cut is a brief on-off, so brief and light that it's often barely heard as a tone, especially on a double cut, and depending on the player.
But you don't put your finger down and leave it down, like with a hammer-on
I think the trill-like thing your hearing which isn't an actual trill is a double cut.
Is there a difference between what you're calling a "Hammer On" and a "Cut"??
I've always thought of a Hammer On being a slightly delayed hitting of one note and holding it... not followed by a finger lift.
What's the name of the tune in the beginning? It is really nice!
He says it in the video at 0:50
Dargai, by James Scott Skinner
this was very helpful! thanks!!!
*should have said "sometimes" does a trill/roll. Also, these are educated guesses when it comes to vocabulary--I'm self-taught in most of this, but the techniques I described should be useful to know regardless of what they're called.