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Thanks MGN 🙂
Tracy Silverman has really mastered his effects. You ready to make the jump to 6 strings?
Makes me feel like buying some better equipment and playing more with my Zeta Jazz Fusion fiddle again. I have a buddy that spends a lot of time doing concerts on his electric cello, effect box, computer, looping machine and amplifier.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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No, I'm not even close to ready...LOL. I come from a background of rock n roll and wanted to share what I have been listening to. Led Zeppelin is one of many bands as far as song writing goes that is really good and one of my favorites that made it out of the sixties and most of the seventies. I have a strong feeling Fiddlerman that you could smoke him out of the water 😉
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Like on the Lake Geneva shoreline?
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Is there a way to upload mp3's. I have a version of Led Zepplin's Kashmir played by a famous female cello player whose name escapes me. It was a free download from National Public Radio. She was interviewed on the air and made a live recording in the studio. The audio fades in and out a little in the beginning, but then stabilizes quickly. It is not copyrighted material as far as I know. I tried to upload it with the media link using windows media as the player. In the browse box it indicated it would play mp3's but all I get is the blank box thing.
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This girl?
Knowing zero about Lead Zeppelon I caught a clip of Kashmir on Amazon and concluded that the piece is better on the cello
Performance trumps content.
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I never have been a fan of rock. I was country when it wasn't cool. I don't mind listening to it sometimes but would rather listen to country bluegrass or Celtic.
I have had a David Davidson cd for years the song "Plainsong" was the first one I eventually would like to play.
Others are:
Mark O'Conner
Celtic woman
Michael Cleveland.
Michael makes me wonder, when I practice if my looking at where I'm placing my fingers is hindering me from hearing if I'm actually on the correct note.
I had the pleasure to hear Michael Cleveland in a rather small theater so I could study his playing. I do not doubt that his condition has added to his already natural talents.
At one point he stopped the show and went on solo fiddle and played a waltz. Totally awesome. Makes me wonder what sounds might be inside my violin if I only knew hold to get them out. Daydream only …. MC is in a class by himself.
(Check out a local boy named Jake Krack. I noticed in one YouTube video that there was an ambulance just off the edge of the park with the audience on the lawn. Might have been there in case anybody lost their breath
(just found him)
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MC is from my area, about 10 years ago I was at a small gathering that use to meet every month, it was called the "fiddlers club". Michael wa a guest I had never seen or heard heard of him before then. I have been a fan of his every since.
I may never be as good as those guys. But I'll sure have fun trying, the more I play the bigger my desire gets.
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Yes, the name of the mp3 I downloaded is kashmirbeiser.mp3. So you got it. She was saying when she first started playing Kashmir, she did not like thumping on her over 100 year old cello. After some time she got over it I guess, it does sound as if she is really thumping it pretty good. I am going to watch the video now, thanks for finding that clip for everyone.
Which reminds me of another version of Kashmir by a group called the Ordinaires. The tempo is a little slower, but very enjoyable.
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I can't say that I have a specific Violinist, or violist for that matter, that inspired me. I do however have a single song that sparked my interest in "Strings" and I will probably get made fun for this but,:
"Uninvited", Alanis Morissette "City of Angels" Soundtrack
Poke Fun all you want 
But this is truly the song that set me on the path to playing a stringed instrument long before I even realized it.
The pack depends upon the wolf, and the wolf depends upon the pack. The loss of one means the destruction of the other.
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I've always liked classical music, but have only in the past year really started picking out violin music as there is something about the violin that just...amasing really.
My gran would probably put someone like Andrei Rieu on here, but my taste seems to go to the less traditional players such as:
David Garrett:
Lindsey Stirling:
I like strong rhythms on the violin, so as well as these, Irish Folk music I also like so many great violinists out there that I have yet to discover!
