Calvin Carrière b flat cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music calvin carrière carriere brothers dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Jun 04, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, welcome to my vlog! And my vlog this week is on going to visit Calvin Carriére. Just started thinking about that, how special that was for me; an opportunity to go study with a legendary Creole fiddle player from Lawtell. Calvin was the nephew of...

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How to Practice Seconding by Yourself accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun tuning fiddle lessons how to practice seconding by yourself ifiddle ifiddlemag May 28, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and my vlog today is on how to practice seconding by yourself on the fiddle. Seconding is what the Cajuns call when you play chords behind a melody. So when you’re backing up the accordion, or another fiddle, or the vocals, you would second or some people call it...

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The Right Bow at the Right Time bowing cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag the right bow at the right time May 10, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed. Welcome to my vlog and today I’m going to talk about bows. And I thought what would be interesting to talk about bows is how bows are all different; some are heavy, some are light. I own four bows and they’re really all different. It’s kind of like...

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Wallace “Cheese” Read Medley Breakdown cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cheese read fiddle lessons french jig ifiddle ifiddlemag jigs louisiana mamou reels wallace “cheese” read medley breakdown May 02, 2017

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed. My vlog this week is on the legendary Cajun fiddler Cheese Read from Mamou, Louisiana, and he’s a distant cousin of mine, and the Reads were Scotch-Irish people who came down to Louisiana during the Spanish Land Grants. A lot of Scotch Irish came down at that time...

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Cajun & Creole Blues accordion cajun & creole blues cajun and creole cajun blues cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Apr 13, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…welcome to my vlog! And my vlog this week is on Creole and Cajun blueses. Really old-timey blueses going back to maybe the 1920s, 30s, played by Dennis McGee and by Douglas Bellard, people like that.

So the first one I was going to play was a blues that I heard...

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Cajun & Creole One-Steps cajun & creole one-steps cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music canray fontenot dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag one step cajun two step cajun Apr 02, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed. Welcome to my vlog and my vlog this week is on Cajun & Creole one-steps. The two one-steps that I’d like to play you right now is a little medley of one-steps that Canray Fontenot played. So these are Creole one-steps. They’re pretty funky, and I thought...

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The Forgotten Cross Tuning Traditions of Cajuns & Creoles appalachia cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cotillion creole fiddle fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag the forgotten cross tuning traditions of cajuns & creoles Mar 13, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…welcome to my vlog! My vlog this week is on cross-tuning, tunes, and players. I just want to talk a little bit about that. It’s a tradition that we used to have down here that we’ve pretty much lost; not quite sure why. Maybe because the fiddle seconds...

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How to Practice Quietly cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cello fiddle lessons how to practice quietly ifiddle ifiddlemag Feb 03, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, welcome to my vlog. today I’m going to talk about how to practice quietly. Not something that I like doing, but you do have moments and times where you want to practice but there’s people in the house or maybe you’re staying in a hotel, maybe you get...

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Seconding at a Cajun Jam accordion bowing c accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun jam cajun music cajun tuning fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana occasional blues seconding at a cajun jam two step cajun Jan 20, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, welcome to my vlog. Today I’m going to talk about going to a jam and being able to bring your fiddle and play chords behind the accordion, the singer, and all that stuff. So basically, how to second at a Cajun jam, the things to think about, and what to look for....

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Using Tape on Your Fingerboard beginner fiddle cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag using tape on your fingerboard Jan 11, 2017

Hi! Welcome to my vlog…and my vlog this week is going to be on, “Should I have tape on my fiddle or not?” This is a question I hear a lot and this is what I usually say to people is if you’re a total beginner, if you just got a fiddle, you’ve never played fiddle...

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Tuning Your Fiddle in Winter cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana tuning your fiddle in winter Jan 08, 2017

Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I wanted to discuss a couple of things about fiddle maintenance. We are in the beginning part of January and in Southwest Louisiana we have a lot of cold fronts that come through but it gets hot then cold, hot and cold, and recently a lot of my students have been...

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Double-Time Bowing accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun waltz double time bowing double-time bowing fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag old time cajun Dec 30, 2016

Hi, today on my vlog I’m going to talk about double bowing for Cajun waltzes. What I mean by that is using this rhythm [00:10]. I’ll slow it down a little bit [00:18]

So some of the old-time tunes that were recorded like in the ’30s and the ’20s, some of the fiddlers used...

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