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OK, so I posted my "party" take in the wrong thread - I've moved it to here -
I seriously recommend not copying my mistakes. D'oh - 
Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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Ohh glad to hear the vibrato is going well Emily ! I don’t really have much of a clue on vibrato but i’m really intrigued about how it’s going. I did show my teacher the exercises I was doing and she recommended a book. She also said it as a bit early for me to learn! I think so too.
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Violin & Cello
Well, it's 'Mischief Night' (aka. Devil's Night) and I was thinking of
"THE SHINING"
Remember the Ballroom Scene music?
I found, Hana Maria, a dark and edgy Violinist/Cellist/Harpist/Pianist/Composer/Singer in the UK, who has a wonderful arrangement of it!
Hana Maria founded the Gothic Rock Band, "Hana Piranha" and I really enjoyed some of her other videos! Here's a bit about her, her 4th and Solo debut album "Wednesday's Child", and music samples.
The Story of 'Wednesday's Child'
This all led me to another new find.
CELLIST/Composer/Singer, Unwoman - from the San Francisco Bay area.
Here's a tune from her "Of My Own Space and Time I Am Queen" album.
"THORNS" ...really like this one!
You can read about her & sample her other music here.
I'm glad Kids don't toilet-paper trees, or throw eggs at cars and houses anymore, but I do miss the idea of playing harmless pranks!
Have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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I'm pretty sure we've had this posted on the forum -
or I've just seen it somewhere.
Here's the ultimate Halloween Horror video
for a Violinist!
If you have strong emotions about this video,
check out this other FM Forum Thread!
Emotions Towards an Instrument - Thread
ALMOST HALLOWEEN!
- Emily
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Glad I found this thread from last year, I'm having an awful time getting into the Halloween spirit for this one! 👻
I had forgotten how much I like the music here!
Here's more to consider learning!
SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS! I don't know how I missed last year! (Kosmostraut)
Violin Play-along Sheet Music! (A.D. Music and Tutorials)
VIOLA Play-along Sheet Music! (2 speeds - EasyViolaLesson)
Great music for Autumn & Halloween in these threads, too:
There's a Wicked Fiddler Here! Thread
PUMPKIN TIME! Feeling Like Autumn? Thread
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Ooo...ooOOoo!
How about learning a dark & twisty JIG for Halloween time?
"The White Petticoat"
Played by Kevin Burke & Cal Scott, the rest of the set & album is nice, too!
The White Petticoat Sheet Music
...I love Eeee minor!
- Emily
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BLACK CATS!
Now I'm getting in the mood.
Elena Kats-Chernin (Australia) composed an unusually sinister sounding version of the "Black Cat Rag", performed by Ivana Tomaskova.
"Black Cat" - composed & performed by Warren Hood! LOVE it!
"Cats Tango" by by Oleksandr Gonobolin - performed by Agrippina Bolshakova and Sophia Zavalko.
I LOVE THIS - SO CUTE!!!
This is what people usually expect to hear in Ragtime - learn/play along with "The Black Cat Rag" by Frank Wooster - composer & publisher in St. Louis, Missouri (1905). Violin Sheet music with downloadable Midi!
The Black Cat Rag Sheet Music With Audio
More Cat tunes in Critter Threads!
Celtic/Cape Breton Music Over-run With Critters! Thread
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ELCBK said
Ooo...ooOOoo!
How about learning a dark & twisty JIG for Halloween time?
"The White Petticoat"
Played by Kevin Burke & Cal Scott, the rest of the set & album is nice, too!
The White Petticoat Sheet Music
...I love Eeeeminor!
I started my FIDDLEVIDEO subscription back up last week - forgot to mention that Kevin Burke has a wonderful tutorial, for this tune, there!
- Emily
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@ELCBK Hey, lady, there's a party started over in the Party Room for Halloween--gather up some of your tunes & get on over there 
Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words.
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@SharonC -
...my butt's been draggin' this year. 🥴
Only have maybe 2 little ones ready to record, just having too much fun fiddlin' around, I guess... haven't even thought about dressing for the part, yet!
Can't wait to see what YOU are up to!
- Emily
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dark themed song
Chris Knight has a song called Down the River that has a dark story to it. cool song.
banks of the ohio another traditional tune that has a dark story.
not really related but along the same style lines as Chris Knight is a Ray Wylie Hubabrd song called snake farm. not dark at all..kinda funny...but the way he sings the ending.. well..he sounds scared. I was going to share the chris knight one but figured better left..snake farm was in the list and made me remember how much i liked it. funny lyrics to me.
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@ABitRusty -
Thank You!
Creepy, ha'-all-owe'en are workin' on the same wavelength...
I'd actually given some serious thought to starting a Murder Ballad Thread, back when I learned about "The Bonny Bows" (Crowfoot). I posted a link to the Twa Sisters & related legends in the Crowfoot Thread.
Was surprised, at the time, to find out there really is such a thing as a 'Murder Ballad Genre'! 😳
Liked "Down In The Willow Garden" (aka. "Rose Connelly") and Chris Knight's "Down The River" - both sad tales, great Murder Ballads.
🤔... most ballads tend to melancholy or sad, anyway - minor keys make my day!
Here's the Waybacks (with a great Fiddle break) playing "The Witch of The Westmereland" (aka. Westmorland) - almost thought by the lyrics to possibly be a murder ballad, but I'm left guessing the final fate of the Witch!
Ran across Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Snake Farm" & "Rabbit" a while back, searching for 'Critter' tunes. ...decided I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. 🙄🤣
- Emily
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WITCHES!
...not your ordinary fly over!
"Witch of Harlem" (1937) by Audrey Call - performed by Ilana Blumberg.
Shawn Craver added 4 Fiddle tunes he plays (view in video description) to this old Silent Film "The Witch's Fiddle".
If you'd like to have fun adding your own tunes, here's the Film WITHOUT sound (BFI): The Witch's Fiddle (1924)
Possibly the first student film ever made, this tale of a magical instrument was shot by the newly formed Cambridge University Kinema Club. While the film is a daft comedy, its creators went on to careers straight from a thriller: director Peter Le Neve Foster spent years filming behind the Iron Curtain, his assistant director Cedric Belfrage was a suspected Russian spy, and Pembroke Stephens - the lovesick youth - was killed in 1937 while reporting on the Japanese invasion of China.
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Really liked "The witch of Westmorland" @elcbk.
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Well, I'm ruined for life. 😔
I can't enjoy a professional soloist perform on stage anymore - once my eyes find the bow/hand/arm, it's like the performer disappears. OMG, I have to mentally tear myself away to re-focus on the fact there's a HUMAN BEING making all this happen! ...if I worked that hard for so many years, I'd want people to notice the music was something made & given 'from me'!
Great... it's probably a good thing I'm not able to attend any live performances right now. As for this video of "Nosferatu", composed by Antonio Ballestin for Alma Olite, I had to watch thru twice - the 2nd time, for Alma!
...couldn't bear to close my eyes!
Here's the original 1922 film with the organ music.
Someone commented their Great-Grandmother saw this film soon after it's release - "After the movie, it was several blocks to walk home alone in the dark since my Great-Grandpa worked that night, and Great-Grandma said she was terrified the whole way home, and jumped straight into bed with the baby and pulled the covers over her head! And she left the lights on too!"
I remember feeling that creeped out after see the 1st "Alien" in 1979 - had to go spend the night with friends!
I've been thinking more about having fun putting together something 'halloweeny' to play along with one of Georges Méliès's pre-1900 silent films - they aren't long, but it's just too last minute for this year. The way I get sidetracked, I'll have to try to get the mood going in February somehow - gloomy weather that month might help. (lol)
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