The Sleeping Tune by Gordon Duncan

This week we started learning Gordon Duncan’s Sleeping Tune. We’ll learn the B part next week, and put it all together into a set with the two reels we’ve been working on this term. We spent some time looking at tone, and how to  use the bow to create the tone we want from our fiddles.

Two weeks ago we spent most of the evening looking at tuning, and things we can do to help play in tune. We talked about tuning our fiddles by ear, then checking the tuning with an electronic tuner, so we can learn to hear when the open strings are in tune.