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Fiddling With My Whistle has some easy-to-learn, Popular, play-along tutorials for Christmas Fiddling! These show tabs and finger placement.
"Last Christmas"!
"Mary Did You Know"!
"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"!
Here's rolling sheet music for Maria Carey's, "All I Want For Christmas is You"! (Female Solo Violinist)
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Found some wonderful Christmas arrangements, with rolling sheet music, by Thomas H Graf (Germany)! Violin Duets, Cello Duets and String Quartets at hitfactory2009.
https://www.youtube.com/user/h.....009/videos
"American Christmas" - Mash up Rondo of best Christmas Songs - Violin Duet
"The Christmas Song" - (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) - Violin Duet
"Sleigh Ride" - Easy Swing - String Quartet
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MORE Christmas String Quartet arrangements from Thomas H Graf! (hitfactory2009)
"Grown up Christmas List" - Michael Buble Style - String Quartet
"The Christmas Waltz" - Frank Sinatra - String Quartet "The Christmas Waltz" - Frank Sinatra - String Quartet.
"Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" - Christmas Classic - String Quartet.
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CHRISTMAS IS HERE!
...try these out?
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Released in 1975 - made my day & it just doesn't get any better than this!
...maybe it does get better - Greg Lake & Ian Anderson, playing together!
Sorry folks, seems like just yesterday to me! (lol)
While I'm feeling nostalgic, here's a an earlier classic (1968) from Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull!
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The Jethro Tull Christmas Album - Playlist
Sorry, thought I was done looking at Christmas music. (lol) I'm sure the sheet music is available to buy, but I'd try to play these by ear.
For all you youngsters, "I Believe In Father Christmas" was written as a protest against the commercialization of Christmas.
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Interesting with the violin tab videos. Anyone use these? What are your thoughts? I want to make more "Tune a Week" videos and visual aides can be super helpful.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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@Fiddlerman -
Animated Tabs with audio were great when I was starting out. I still look to some if I can't find audio reference or a simple version of a tune I want to learn.
Animated Tabs are like rolling sheet music - you can see the notes coming up and can prepare - they are always too fast, though, and distorted when slowed down with settings. Animated Dots on the fingerboard is a great reference for early beginners.
Early on, I learned quickest by thinking in 'finger placement' terms, not 'note' terms, so all the visuals were important help - and I still want to hear audio reference to help me play in tune, hear phrasing and dynamics.
The tutorials I prefer to quickly learn from now, is when I clearly see and hear both of your hands with a line of animated notation - has helped me with sight-reading the most! Fingering is important, but your phrasing, dynamics and how you use the bow are more so.
I really love videos I can see where shifting is best used - VERY helpful! ...hint...hint. (lol)
Now...
I still think of a 'Viola' as the 'lower part of my 5 string Violin' - so, basically, I think of everything in Treble Clef notation. Sight-reading Alto Clef notation means I see 'Treble' notes, then I have to 'add' for the Alto notes - slow going.
Viola Tutorials that also show animated Alto Clef notation would be GREAT!
🤔... I could even see where it would be extremely beneficial for BOTH Violinists and Violists just to see you play a tutorial, but show a line of animated Treble Clef AND a line of Alto Clef notation!
🤔... is there a way you could make your tutorials with a 5 string instrument and kill two birds with one stone? (lol)
Okay, enough brain farts for today.
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Thanks Emily, they will come. 
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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Folks have been submitting their recordings for this year's Christmas GP, maybe it's time to start learning another tune for the Holidays!
Lindsey Stirling just released this video for her "Sleigh Ride"!
I've been looking at ways to personalize the music I play with some variation, change of key, etc... This sheet music, actually for guitar (arrangement by Giorgos Arsenis), has elements I really like.
There's a few notes that make this PERFECT for extended range Violins (5 or 6 strings)!
BUT, the range shouldn't stop anyone... just play a note that's too low or high in a more comfortable octave.
Let me know if you find this stirs YOUR creativity, too!
I like seeking out Christmas music that I haven't seen anyone play on Violin, Viola or Cello - especially now I have my new 6-string Violin!
You can see some of the videos that are inspiring me this Season, here in My Blog - starting with Post #173.
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