Yes, that is difficult. Incompatible postures. When my kin and I present our ridiculous bluegrass shtick at family beach-week, I onlyizzarina wrote:I do better with a tune if I can hum it well first. But I don't really sing while playing my fiddle.
I would love the ridiculous bluegrass shtick. Sounds like a grand time.emmline wrote:Yes, that is difficult. Incompatible postures. When my kin and I present our ridiculous bluegrass shtick at family beach-week, I onlyizzarina wrote:I do better with a tune if I can hum it well first. But I don't really sing while playing my fiddle.
sing between riffs. My singing is on par with my fiddling. I won't say what that means.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8v_L2J3E3Iizzarina wrote:I would love the ridiculous bluegrass shtick. Sounds like a grand time.emmline wrote:Yes, that is difficult. Incompatible postures. When my kin and I present our ridiculous bluegrass shtick at family beach-week, I onlyizzarina wrote:I do better with a tune if I can hum it well first. But I don't really sing while playing my fiddle.
sing between riffs. My singing is on par with my fiddling. I won't say what that means.
It is the posture, and when I think about it, most people who do sing while fiddling aren't actually fiddling while they sing. They take the fiddle away first, sing their bit, then commence fiddling after they are done singing.
I'm not willing to dismiss my excuses so quicklyemmline wrote:Wowee. I was going to say "why does he even have a chin rest?" then he went and stuck the fiddle up under his chin for the final sweep.
That was quite interesting. I've seen players hold the fiddle lower, but sometimes he had it on his elbow. Quite a technique.
Well. Guess the posture excuse is shot.
Notice that he doesn't do his real playing until he does tuck it under his chin on that final sweep. Before that, his playing seems to be limited to mostly rhythm type playing which doesn't require a whole lot of movement on the fingerboard. So there! I stand by my contentions 
But that's only because I don't like to have my excuses as to why I can't do something taken away.
Well, bleh. He does have it under his chin the whole time, doesn't he?
STILL!!! He doesn't do any of his major playing when he is singing. Maybe there is a shred of this excuse I can hold on to yet.... He's also sitting, which could make the difference in terms of the posture. I hadn't thought about doing that....I was thinking about it from a standing position. 