How To Play The Klezmer Fiddle! (1 of 3)

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This video is an "Online Klezmer Fiddle Lesson"! Some intiial tips to distinguish Klezmer fiddle playing from regular fiddle playing, the "Ahava Raba" Klezmer scale...& the story of my psychedelic BEAST of a Fiddle!

Klezmer was the tradtional Jewish wedding music of the Eastern European Shtetls - "Klezmer" refers to the musicans who played the music, as this old Yiddish term literally means "Vessels of Song"...

My album, "The Klezmer Fiddle", is now available from iTunes & Amazon MP3 Store - which features both my demonic beast of a fiddle featured in this video, and my 257 year old Baroque fiddle, made by Remerus Liessem, in London, in 1753!

For full details, please see:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/MichaelLevy2

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Klezmer
• Music
• Fiddle
• Violin
• Jewish
• Israel
• Yiddish
• Shtetl
• Klezmatics
• Itzhak
• Perlman
• Offra
• Haza
• Jerusalem
• Naftule
• Brandwein
• Abe
• Schwartz
• Harry
• Kandel

[discospring]

Love your videos Michael - and that fiddle - I never knew Ken could do such things. The mic clipping distortion distracts from your excellent and entertaining advice, so more vids please but check those levels!

[MiXueLe]

I want to play klezmer fiddle soooo much, but I'm just starting out on violin (probably self-taught until I can afford lessons), and these scales are hard! This must be difficult for young Jewish beginners to start on!  I have those ever-present Mel Bay books that start you off on dixie and hot cross buns. Nice, safe major scales.

[ytcomposer]

Whoa! This is the first vid (I apologize) in which I've heard you speak! I didn't know you were English! Glad to see your tutorial! ^_^

[bobdeuel]

Great information - and I really like your fiddle!

[anisand]

Now there' s some scales I can enjoy! Thank you for posting :-)