dionysia:

It is from Wayfaring Stranger, an American folk song/spiritual that was first popularized in the 1940s by Burl Ives but covered by many since.  I am glad you liked it.

gws

Thanks Picklefish;  I really am looking for improvement, not fishing for praise, and I know that I am a novice with a lot to learn. So, I appreciate the bow hold and bow control areas to work on. This is from memory now, not reading it.

Also, I agree that some dynamics would help.  With the guitar I manage to get the emotions into the performance;  with violin I am so focused on all of the mechanics that I haven't even thought about the dynamics . So thanks again for the input. I sincerely welcome all the help I can get.

g

thanks @coolpinkone and @ratvn . Next video I make I'll move where more bow arm visibility will work; where I was there is this post in the way.  Then I'll look forward to some bow technique critique.  

I am glad you like the playing.

@Ferret noticed the instruments on the wall; the dobro and lap steel (on the floor) are played with a slide, so there are no frets to make the intonation work like there are for regular guitars; so in a way I have been doing intonation ear training with those instruments for a long time. So I think that probably helped.

Likewise, jazz comping / improvisation on the guitar helps with knowing the blues scales and how they sound, to use on violin blues improvisation. Plus, @Fiddlerman 's blues improvisation videos were especially helpful. 

thanks everyone for your kind words and advice. g

thanks for the comments, @RosinedUp 

>Now please tell us how you are processing the music? Are you doing any pitch correction? I don't know about the technical aspects of that—I'm asking since your intonation is so good.

I am using no pitch correction; I don't know the technical aspects of that either, but have heard of vocalists using something like that.  I would guess the slides/glissandi would get "stairstepped" by that, but don't really know. So, thanks for the intonation compliment

The two devices I used are a Fishman Pro-EQ Platinum equalizer to tone down the harshness of the pickups and a VOX Tonelab LE. This is a muliteffects box with a tube preamp stage in it. For Wayfaring Stranger I had the MODDLY patch in the LE, which is basically just an analog delay (that big-hall echo effect.) For St James Infirmary I dialed back to a PHASE effect that gives it a little bit of a 'rippled" sound instead of a big-space echo.

I have this plugged into a yamaha mixer without any effects on the violin channel,with a USB link to computer, to provide the audio input for the video recording.

>The only thing I can think of to mention is that your bow may have tended to go crooked when you start to bow near the frog... You might try making a video looking at the strings broadside to see whether the bow is staying pretty square to the strings.

That could be, especially in the throes of improvising. Later in the week I'll try to make some video that shows the bow broadside to the stirings and, per ratvn,  the bowing shoulder arm and hand.  Thanks