TYVM @Mouse - glad you liked it, and yes, you got the title correct !

Strangely enough, since I first played that tune on StreetJelly about 3 years back - a couple of folks have asked for the sheet music - well - I STILL have not got round to committing it to sheet - I SHALL of course, just other things get to the top of the list...  you know !

Yeah as I say, the cover of Lovers Waltz - well - I never intentionally "copy someone's playing style" - but - Jay's take (well, his 50+ years of playing to my 5 or 6) just blows me out of the water.  Still, it is a goal to aim for, and that is what matters.

stringy said
Nice tunes, I like slow violin music, sounds really good, especially writing your own stuff. Thanks for your comments on my vid by the way Much appreciated, didn’t think learning an instrument could be so difficult. How’s the weather up in Scotland not snowing I hope😬 been dull down here in Liverpool today.

TYVM @stringy - nice to catch up with you and a belated BIG WELCOME to the forum.  I've been a member here since about mid-March 2014 - and I, like several other early-members, have sort of "moved-on" in our fiddle journey, and are now not as active as we used to be - so I often miss a lot of newcomers.

Yes, the journey is not easy, of course it's not - but it can be so fulfilling.  I ( and if I am correct from what I read, you also ) have a longer term musical background and that so much eases the way.  You are already playing very well for such a short time, congrats on that !   Stick with it mate, you're well on-track !

Weather here is SO variable - four seasons in one day...  well - this summer has been the worst in years - driving rain, wind, cloudy with not much sun.  The raspberries and other soft fruits in our garden were largely ruined this year - although strangely we are having the best crop of apples on the two little trees we have, and a plum-tree that is bending under the weight of its close to ripening fruit.  So THAT'S good - but pleaseeee - do not mention the accursed midge... they're rampant this late-summer/early autumn !!!! LOL

All the best with your own fiddle journey - I know that at times it can feel like "so much effort, so little return on my investment of time" - but - honestly - trust me - make your OWN way to your OWN target - sure - learn from classical techniques on YT and other videos then take and understand them and meld them into your fiddling - in some ways they are not so different. As a fiddler - sure - LOOK at some of the etudes - try them but don't let it take over.  Look at the great fiddlers out there with expression, dynamics, strange bow techniques, and think, wonder "just how the heck do they do that" and develop your OWN personal approach.  It works!

All the best - keep at it !

@ELCBK - lass, you are most welcome. my pleasure and glad you enjoyed the tunes !

You can see the way he holds his fiddle, not exactly the way most people are taught, yet he not only sounds great but has vibrato I'd die for.  In fact I'll probably actually die before I ever get vibrato like that & trying to do everything the "right" way is sucking the life out of me, today.  Geez, I need to leave "The Darkside". 

***VERY INTERESTINGLY*** ( starred and caps used ! ) yes - I actually commented on a comment on one of Jay's posts by someone else who had said something like "Look at his wrist, flat on the neck, that's not how to play violin" - My reply was to the effect - "Well, can YOU play as well as that - I sure can't ?"

Just so wrong - the original comment about how "not to play".  You develop your own technique and you make it work for you.  I have seen Ungar play WAY up the neck in a classical manner - his "relaxed hold" in many of his videos is just him being totally comfortable and at one with the instrument.  If it is easier that way, and doesn't detract from what you need to play in the here and now, do it that way, and when needs demand - bring it on!

I'm a firm believer in "there is no one right way" - really.... maybe so for the David Garretts of this world whose playing I love with a passion - but he allegedly, even now, spends like 10+ hours a day between performance and practise.   We, well I for sure, do not aspire to that.  I just want to pull a fine tune out of an old fiddle, that's all, and if it gives pleasure to others - I have in some way succeeded in my quest as a fiddler !

Thanks Emily !