The Differences Between Fiddle and Violin cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag the differences between fiddle and violin Dec 22, 2016

Hi! Today on my vlog I’m going to talk a little bit about something a lot of people ask me about, questions about, and it’s the difference between violin and fiddle. So I thought I would give it a try. I’m not a violinist, I’m a fiddler. I did study classical music though...

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Cajunized Holiday Tunes cajun and creole cajun christmas cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun holiday cajun music cajunized holiday tunes fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Dec 06, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…welcome to my vlog! This week I am going to talk about how you can take some Christmas songs and give them a Cajun flavor.

So, very oftentimes, I don’t know if this has happened to you yet, but you might bring your fiddle to a Christmas party this time of...

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The Music of Bretagne and Poitou cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag the music of bretagne and poitou Nov 14, 2016

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed and today on my vlog I’m going to talk a little bit about the music from Brittany and Poitou. I’m very lucky to have some friends from Brittany who taught me a couple of fiddle tunes that I thought were really interesting and I just want to talk a little...

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Cajun & Creole Polkas b flat cajun & creole polkas cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun polka cajun waltz creole polka dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana two step cajun Nov 07, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and today my vlog is on the Cajun & Creole polka. Definitely a type of dance that has died out down here in Louisiana. I don’t know anybody who can dance the Cajun polka or Creole polka. But it definitely was played and the old people that were recorded playing...

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How to Practice Cajun & Creole Seconding beausoleil cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun waltz fiddle lessons how to practice cajun & creole seconding ifiddle ifiddlemag traditional cajun Oct 25, 2016

Hi…Welcome to my vlog today! I’m going to talk about how to practice seconding. I get this question a lot and the thing about being a Cajun fiddler is you have to be really good at what we call seconding or playing chords.[00:18]

But you also have to learn the melodies and be able...

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Playing Two Strings at a Time cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag playing two strings at a time two string Oct 07, 2016

Hi…Welcome to The Vlog! Today I’m going to talk about droning or double stops. Double stops are when you play two strings at the same time on a violin or a fiddle. When you catch an open string along the other string that you’re playing, we call it droning…almost like a...

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Learning to Play by Ear cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag learning to play by ear Oct 07, 2016

Hi, welcome to The Vlog! This week I’m going to talk about playing by ear. I’ve had a lot of people over the years, as long as I’ve been teaching, always asking, “How can I learn to play by ear?”, “I want to be able to play by ear,” and it’s...

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Cajun & Creole Contradances cajun & creole contradances cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music contradances fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Sep 23, 2016

Sounds like I live in Manhattan or something. We’ve got all kinds of outside sounds of big machines rolling on the streets of Scott, Louisiana; trying to fix it up after the flood. Basically, we got some new water drains and we’re going to get some sidewalks so we’ll be able to...

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CelticFest Mississippi cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music celticfest mississippi fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Sep 15, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, and welcome to my Vlog. Today I wanna talk about my weekend, I think. So I’m also in a project band called Celjun. What we do is we mix Celtic music with Cajun music, Irish music, even some Appalachian music. But I love it because it really shows the origins of...

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Octaves cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun waltz fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag octaves two step cajun Sep 06, 2016

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed. Welcome to my fiddle vlog. Today I’m gonna talk about a little exercise that you can work on for your octaves because octaves are used a lot in Cajun fiddle. I’ll give you an example of some tunes that have heavy octaves and then show you how you can...

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Cajun & Creole Fiddle 101 cajun & creole fiddle 101 cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music cajun waltz fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag two step cajun Jul 28, 2016

Hi! I thought I would like to give a quick tutorial on the Cajun fiddle and how to get those Cajun sounds, Creole sounds. So I’m gonna just kind of give a brief little instruction tutorial on those things.

One of the first things I’ll have to start with is that if you’re...

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Loving Your Fiddle cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana loving your fiddle Jul 19, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…Welcome to The Vlog! Today I thought I would talk a little bit about something that I get a lot of questions about. Doesn’t have a whole lot to do with actually playing the fiddle but it’s just keeping up your fiddle.

Sometimes you might notice when...

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