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Thanks mouse, I will be honest I am not in a position to give advice, in fact I was asking an English fiddle player on another site if he gave lessons, very good player his rythm is .amazing.
If you are interested though, I would say very slow practice and scales, as for string to string, play the d very slow, stop and roll the bow onto the a string then play that, then do the same from the a to the d, speed up over time, thats how I am trying to learn it anyway, but your playing is getting really good already.
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Thanks For having a look Mark and Emily. I am in the process now of trying to learn tunes at full speed straight off, instead of slow like I play this one, after listening to kevin burkes views on practice. I played this a few times before recording it, but its still as rough as a bears a....... lol, a vid I posted of frankie gavin in it he mentions learning a tune he plays it about a hundred times. Just changed my entire way of practicing after this one.
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@stringy -
When I started learning to play the violin, I wanted to know just how long it originally took some of the great fiddlers to learn a tune well.
I remember reading somewhere - an old fiddler said they'd have to play a new tune for a few months before anyone came thru with a new one to share, or someone went visiting & brought a new tune back with them. I suspect a lot of years accumulated playing the same tunes!
How many YEARS had Gavin been playing the fiddle when he said that (about playing 100 times)? 40? More?
🤔... average 7 times a practice, one practice every day for 2 weeks (got the 100!). I probably do that, then rotate my tunes & comeback for more later (because I'm no Frankie Gavin).
Have you tried working on pushing the tempo of a couple tunes you already know very well?

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Started speeding up some of the older tunes, I know, still fairly hard for me though to be honest. Its actually gotten to the point that you mentioned yourself a couple of years ago about how many tunes you can learn and still be able to practice every day, I said at the time I rotated mine, but it only works up to a point of about ten tunes, for me anyway, over that I dont have enough time. I am going to stick now to learning a new one every now and then as I now realise its bettter to play a few tunes well than hundreds badly, not only that I cant remember them all, its up to about fifty tunes now, seriously. I am fairly good at the Kesh jig now though not bad after all these years of playing 😉 (thats meant to be a joke, I am not that good at the Kesh either) lol
Cant beat a sunny day

