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I'll be in East Durham again for this year's CIAW. Just curious -- to anyone else who's taking classes at Arts Week, have you gotten any sort of letter from them confirming your registration? The last time I took a class art Arts Week, 2 years ago, I did receive a confirmation letter, but I didn't ...

Azalin, Sorry I will miss you. Thanks for the info....I am passing it along to my friend and asking her to check it out. I'll get back to you! Arbo Great! I was there in december and spoke with the owner, in the pub, but the "celtic" band were away for vacations so didn't see any of it. T...

I will be in Vietnam for a few months, but alas, only from mid september. There is a pub called Sheridan's in Ho Chi Minh, and they're supposed to have live 'celtic' music on monday nights... but I doubt you can find anyone to play with. I don't have much faith in finding anyone either. But the owne...

Amazing!

The main reason is I really missed the 'missing' notes on harmonica, and was baffled by the insane nature of finding chromatics on an Anglo. Missing diatonic notes on a harmonica can be fixed at one fell swoop by adopting the Paddy Richter tuning, which means raising the 3-blow reed by a whole tone...

Well, reading some arguments from Will, I don't agree with this... it's not a simple discussion, when you end up saying "I asked him and he specifically agrees with me" without the person's consent, it goes beyond the normal discussion about a "quote" from a great player. Again,...

Odd. I didn't have to log in or anything. I got some mysterious prompt about mime or something, which I sort of ignored. Vista/IE7. Ah, well, I feel geeky... so... indeed it's a quicktime video, which means your computer's quicktime player is actually playing the movie, not really your web browser....

As some people said, different learning techniques work for different people. We can't really debate a technique as it could work for someone else. But to "quote" a professional musician to prove a "point" is senseless in my opinion, I could "quote" many other musician...

<<I could "quote" many other musicians who'd tell you metronomes are not required at all, etc.>> Go ahead, Im waiting. I will leave "quoting" and name dropping to people like you, Will. I don't think anyone I had workshops with would appreciate me bending their comments to my wi...

... and I'm still waiting for Will's clip of his fiddle playing, since I posted mine.

But honnestly guys, why does it matter? There are professonial players who live from the music and where many aspects of their playing are very important not only for their own enjoyment of the music, but for their 'job'. I know a fiddler who uses a metronome sometimes because he plays for step danc...

Hey Will, where's your clip of fiddle playing? I'm still waiting for it.

My playing is on you tube, and on clips and snips. so what. where is your playing Azalin? So rather than check the facts you continue your erroneous ways. sigh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAZCuFylppA Are you kidding me???? But anyway, nice girls in there, was worth watching... but where's the a...

fiddlerwill wrote:After you taocat. I sent samples of my playing to the mods straight away.

You don't need to send them to a moderator. You can post them on Clips & Snips or Youtube or anywhere... just give us the link here. If you're not sure how, I'm sure your friend Kevin Burke could show you.

Will, showing on a forum and giving advices while name dropping, repeating non-stop that you've been playing for so many years and that you play with "experts", and while at the same time not providing any recording of your playing to support your "facts", doesn't make you a cred...