Practice Exercise for Hurdy Gurdy

This week we share a fun little exercise, to warm up your left hand to the instrument, and also a simple trompette exercise for your right hand. Then we combine them together for a musical sounding practice that helps develop some basic playing technique!
Presented by George Leverett of Altarwind Music.

[@simpleguitarman]

Thanks George, this is helping me for sure.

[@paulinerussell6749]

You are so wonderful! I’m very grateful that I got my hurdy from you!!!

[@hurdygurdyworld8674]

Thanks for the kind comment :)

[@finbarrphelan8751]

Hi there: Could you discuss left hand(Melody hand) finger positioning for the pegs please?

[@tonystanton9223]

Thanks for keeping it simple and explaining it well, very hard to find a good gurdy instructional video, cheers man you just made my day, now off to practice this some more 👍👍

[@hurdygurdyworld8674]

Thanks Tony!

[@BirdWhisperer46]

George, the trompette buzz is the hardest thing for me to understand, probably because my Gurdy hasn't been ordered yet. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush kind of thing. So, is the dog activated from change in speed of the crank, or the force you use at that instant?

[@hurdygurdyworld8674]

Hi Mitch! A little of each. If you crank nice & steady & even, it won't buzz. It's subtle little gyrations of your cranking hand that makes it buzz. The action of it is also adjustable, so you can make really super sensitive (requiring the slightest of effort to make it buzz) or go the other direction.