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Wow, VickieD! That was very good!
Nice shifting, BTW.
May i know what sheet did You use (if You did ofcourse)?
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Oh my, holy crap that was good! No, GREAT!
I'm a member of a group of STARS! 
"If you practice with your hands you must practice all day. Practice with your mind and you can accomplish the same amount in minutes." Nathan Milstein
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Thanks everyone for the nice comments. @Mad_Wed - Yes, I did use a sheet (someday I'm going to learn to play without the sheet) - I'm attaching a pdf of the sheet I used. I used another score (can't remember where I got it) and put it it to MuseScore to make this version - you will probably find lots of mistakes in the score but here you go.
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
~~Albert Einstein
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Bravo Vickie 
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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VickieD said
Definitely still a work in progress ... especially the part where I'm trying out 3rd positionbut wanted to get a contribution out there - Thanks CPO and KindaScratchy for encouraging us to work on this piece.
@VickieD (OK, picture Elaine on Seinfeld saying this...) GET OUT!!
I can't even believe how good that was, with all the ornamentation, slides, third position. You are certainly no beginner! That was great and I can only hope to be able to play AF as well some day.
wow.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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Wow! That was very good!
Thanks for sharing that.
Mark
Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.
Albert Sammons
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Ha! Ha! @KindaScratchy .... I love Seinfeld. Thanks for the nice comments.
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
~~Albert Einstein
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Thanks VickieD! =)
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CPO,
Here's my feeble attempt at Ashokan Farewell
Mark
Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.
Albert Sammons
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wow..Mark.. nothing feeble about that.
SWEET!!!!! Your violin makes a great sound. Seems perfect for the song. I enjoyed your playing a lot.
Thanks for "playing a long" with us.
Thumbs up !!!!
Vibrato Desperato.... Desperately seeking vibrato
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Nice job Mark - I agree - your violin has a beautiful sound. Thanks for playing.
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
~~Albert Einstein
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Thank you both!
Mark
Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.
Albert Sammons
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I see your dedication and practice shining thru... Takes a lot of work huh?....
Great job. 
"If you practice with your hands you must practice all day. Practice with your mind and you can accomplish the same amount in minutes." Nathan Milstein
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Well done, @mark_1 !
I am confused though ( well, that's nothing new for me... ) - are you left-handed or is the video reversed - or - are you playing a right-handed fiddle "left-handedly" with the string positions unchanged? arggggghhh - listen - it's FAR too early in the morning for me to talk any sense at all.... LOLOL I'll be better after my second coffee....
Far from "feeble", I would describe your work as a "valiant attempt" !
I seriously recommend not copying my mistakes. D'oh - 
Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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Thanks Denny and Bill, for the comments.
Denny, getting a handle on all the bow functions is being a real challenge for me just for the legato bow stroke, I think that's the correct name for it, little alone all the various bow strokes yet to be figure out. I've Been reading lots of articles on bow control and tone production most have the same theme but putting it into practice on a consistent basis is proving to be extremely challenging.
Bill, your eyes are not deceiving you, I do play left handed with a standard right handed fiddle, At age 10 I took up the guitar and changed a right handed one to left handed. To play (normal), kinda, how ever I found out quickly I was only able to play left handed guitars and left handed guitars are far and few between, so at the ripe old age of 15 I stared playing Bass Guitar. So I took a normal right handed one and flipped it over and learned to play it upside down and backwards. But think of it this way I play it with the bass strings on the bottom side of the neck and the treble string are on top side of the neck just like you would think is natural up is high and down is low. 
So figured I would do the same on the fiddle so I could have a variety of fiddles to chose from If I buy another.
Mark
Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.
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@Mark_1 - cool - I'm impressed !
Nicely done on the "upside down and backwards" - cool.... it is a truly weird thing when you stop and think about it - ( well it is when *I* as a right-hander think about it ) - I play guitar a lot - and I do a lot of finger-picking - the right-hand becomes "natural" and I don't think about it. It "does its thing" and all the fingers just go where they should.... (mostly). The left hand, which is not my dominant hand, has, however, over the years of playing guitar has "become accustomed" to "finding the frets" if I'm playing lead, or at least not fully stopped/barred chords. That has "eased" me into fiddle - I kinda know the "separation" between notes ( whatever they are ) be they half or full tones on my left hand if you get me....
NOW - I am trying to imagine, with my "reasonable" level of dexterity on both hands - but which the old brain (whatever is left of it) are controlling separately, exactly what I would sound like if I reversed everything to play "upside down and backwards" - dude - that would take me a bit of effort - but - by heck - I'll tell you what - I'm gonna experiment on that ! For no other reason than to "understand the situation"...
So.... here's another issue... LOL - I largely play be ear, and sometimes work from sheet (but not good enough to "play directly" from sheet) - so - I'm kind of wondering about ( if there is such a thing as "tabs" for violin/fiddle - if there is such a thing - the fingering must be "wrong" ( back to front - on "tabs" if such exist = like finger 1 is your finger 4 and so on? ) for you ????? Yes? I dunno... just thinking on this... LOL )
Cool !!! You know what - in making music, sometimes there just simply IS no right and wrong (OK, specific technique aside) (or left and right for that matter) - if it works, it works....
And as I said before, nothing feeble whatsoever about your Ashokan take...
Cheers
Bill
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Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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Bill,
I just use normal tabs for Violin, I to am brushing up on playing from sheet music so I write down like D2 for the 3rd string, D string and second finger F# I believe is the correct note name and then if the following note stay on the D string I just put the numeral of the finger 1 - 4 what ever it is. when it changes strings the I'll put the string and then the finger position A3 then repeat till I have scribbled on the whole song. when it come to shifting not sure how I'm going to note that hopefully I wont need to by then. The one issue I have discovered is running 3 octave scales getting the last couple of notes in 5th position I'm having a hard time reaching them. I have a hard time reaching around the body of the fiddle to get to them and staying in tune then retracting the hand and sliding back in to 3rd position smoothly and in position. only disadvantage I have found so far.
Hope that a clear explanation.
Mark
Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.
Albert Sammons
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Awesome done, Mark_1!! O.O I'm impressed how You manage to play left hand on usual violin!! Great work -keep it up!!
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Here's my attempt to play it. Sorry about flaws, guys, i had only couple tries before the batteries died =)
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Very nice @Mad_Wed, thank you !
Glad to see the AF thread still alive and kicking !
I seriously recommend not copying my mistakes. D'oh -
Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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