Working away at memorizing the two pieces for my recital on June 1. Got one down and the other is coming along. My intonation is usually on the mark. An old joke about that goes like this: All fiddlers play out of tune, but the good ones notice and correct it the fastest.
I’ve been listening to YouTube renditions of the pieces, The Blue Jig and Shove That Pig’s Foot A Little Further In The Fire, (both at the link above) to make sure I have the rhythm down. That also seems to be doing well. The only real hassle is my tone. It sucks. Fortunately the pieces, both being dance tunes, are fast and that helps mask it. It would only sound really bad on a slow number.
Tone is the hardest thing to master with the violin/fiddle. As my teacher says you want tone on a piano, you push down the button and there it is. Tone on a violin depends on mastering the bow and that takes years. Two and a half years into it, I’m still struggling with tone. But I just drive on. It’s the only way.
















Wish I could help you there, but piano indeed resolves the problem in a magnificent way, for people like me who are half tone-deaf 😉
I’m not tone-deaf, half or otherwise, but that hasn’t improved my bow so far.