How to Sound Like a Fiddle: Playing Double Strings (for fiddle, violin, viola)

Playing double strings is a really great way to make your violin or viola sound like a fiddle. Just adding an open string to the melody will help give your instrument a characteristic country sound.

But sometimes that's not so easy to do!

This video covers how to approach and play double strings, upper drones, and lower drones.

Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun, Celtic, Country, Creole, Old Time, Western Swing, and many other styles all use double string drones.

0:00 Jolie Blonde
0:17 Intro
0:23 Approaching Double Strings
0:30 Importance of Bowarm Elbow
0:40 Importance of Bent Bowhand Thumb
0:47 Helpful Image
1:02 Helpful Exercise for All String Pairs
1:37 Bowspeed, Not Pressure
2:00 Troubleshooting
2:19 Definition of "Drone"
2:31 The Trickiness of Upper Drones
2:42 An Easier Option--Lower Drones
3:11 The Most Fun--Combination Drones
3:44 Don't Forget to Subscribe! 😁

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