CelticFest Mississippi cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music celticfest mississippi fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Sep 15, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, and welcome to my Vlog. Today I wanna talk about my weekend, I think. So I’m also in a project band called Celjun. What we do is we mix Celtic music with Cajun music, Irish music, even some Appalachian music. But I love it because it really shows the origins of...

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Octaves cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun waltz fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag octaves two step cajun Sep 06, 2016

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed. Welcome to my fiddle vlog. Today I’m gonna talk about a little exercise that you can work on for your octaves because octaves are used a lot in Cajun fiddle. I’ll give you an example of some tunes that have heavy octaves and then show you how you can...

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Cajun & Creole Fiddle 101 cajun & creole fiddle 101 cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music cajun waltz fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag two step cajun Jul 28, 2016

Hi! I thought I would like to give a quick tutorial on the Cajun fiddle and how to get those Cajun sounds, Creole sounds. So I’m gonna just kind of give a brief little instruction tutorial on those things.

One of the first things I’ll have to start with is that if you’re...

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Loving Your Fiddle cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana loving your fiddle Jul 19, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…Welcome to The Vlog! Today I thought I would talk a little bit about something that I get a lot of questions about. Doesn’t have a whole lot to do with actually playing the fiddle but it’s just keeping up your fiddle.

Sometimes you might notice when...

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Clean It up! beginner fiddle beginner teacher cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music clean it up! fiddle lessons fiddle teacher ifiddle ifiddlemag mon vieux wagon Jul 14, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…Welcome to The Vlog! Today I’m going to talk about really just trying to get a clean sound.

I’m actually a big fan of this guy on YouTube. He goes by the name FiddleHed and I think he’s a great teacher, a great beginner teacher, and this vlog is...

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Cajun & Creole Blues bosco blues cajun & creole blues cajun and creole cajun and creole blues cajun blues cajun fiddle cajun music creole blues fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Jul 01, 2016

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed. My vlog this week is on Cajun and Creole Blues.  I just wanted to talk a little bit about the origins of that. Some of the people I was lucky to study with: Wade Frugé, Canray Fontenot, Dennis McGee, those people. Definitely, there was a mixture, Creole and...

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Allons à Appalachia allons à appalachia appalachia cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music cajun tune dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana old time cajun Jun 24, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…welcome to my Vlog! Today I wanted to tell a little bit of a story about what I just finished doing. I went on a trip with Michael Doucet and David Doucet. We went to Appalachia and we got together with a guy named Chester McMillan and he was Tommy Jarrell’s...

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Ornamentation in Cajun & Creole Music accordion appalachian fiddling cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag ornamentation in cajun & creole music scotch irish fiddling Jun 17, 2016

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed and welcome to my vlog. Today I’m going to talk about ornamentation in Cajun music. So, the decoration that you add to a tune once you’ve learned the notes. So you can take a tune that’s real simple, maybe we’ll do that, we’ll take… I...

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The Lost Tunes cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag the lost tunes May 27, 2016

Hi! Welcome. My name is Mitch Reed and I’m gonna talk a little bit about what I call The Lost Tunes. The reason I’m bringing this up is I was gonna break down some tunes this week on my website. I have tunes you just don’t hear that much about and one of them is Galop which is...

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Vibrato cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music canray dennis mcgee dewey balfa fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag vibrato wade fruge wayne perry Apr 13, 2016

Hi…Welcome to my vlog! Today I thought I would talk a little bit about vibrato…A lot of times when I break down tunes, when I play real slow, a lot of y’all will see me when I’m holding a long note especially…do that little shake with my hand. And...

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Drones, Double Stops, Double Strings beginner fiddle bowing cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music double stops double strings drones double stop and double strings droning fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Apr 12, 2016

Hi! Welcome to my vlog…today I’m going to talk about playing 2 strings at a time. Double strings, double stops, droning, all that kind of stuff…

So if you’re a beginner,  if you’ve been playing for a year or maybe you’re going on your second year,...

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The Scotch-Irish Connection cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana st. patricks day the scotch-irish connection Apr 10, 2016

It’s the week of St. Patrick’s day and I thought it might be a little interesting to talk about the Irish influence in Cajun music or some people call it Scotch-Irish, Scotch-Irish being more of the people who settled the Appalachian mountains from Northern Ireland. And, we also did...

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