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Eileen Geriak

Yeah ! Lots of time to practice !

June 27, 2006 at 12:00 AM

Yahoo ! School is out and I can practice and play for hours if I want !! :D I'll probably drive my kids nuts, but hey....they drive me nuts sometimes so fair's fair !

My fiddle group is playing for a local train historical thing going on next weekend. It should be fun, but I'll probably have trouble keeping up with some of the tunes. For some odd reason..I can play those tunes just fine by myself, but totally loose it when I have the pressure of keeping up with what everyone else is doing. They always play faster when we're doing a public thing..lol.

I think I prefer playing the classical stuff to fiddle tunes. There's alot more finess involved in playing classical. It's more of a challenge and it matters more that you play "well". Sometimes you get going so fast with some of those fiddle tunes that you end up washing over alot of the notes but you're going so fast no one seems to notice. Ah well, it's fun and an opportunity to get together with others who share a love for this instrument. I have heard some really good fiddlers and I'd LOVE to be able to play like that someday....but.....lol.....that's a LONG way off for me ! :D

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