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Thank you!

Haha what Sawyer family is that????

@@lilliansawyerfiddle the family from the Texas chainsaw massacre

That's what I love to hear!

@@ryanj1262 That is so nice to hear! I’m really grateful. 🙏❤️

@@FrankJFerendo Thank you so much Frank!

@@martinmulvany1157 They’re awesome! There’s some good ones out there!

@@onethousandtwonortheast8848 This Jim Mill’s Bound to Ride record is a good place to get the sound of bluegrass in your ear. As far as guitar goes anything by Tony Rice, Dan Tyminski, Bryan Sutton, Courtney Hartman.

@@lilliansawyerfiddle thank you so very much!

I want to clarify the comment a bit because bluegrass is a groove based music BUT the modern tendency is to play smoothly and with an evenness to tone and attack where every note is played with more or less the same intensity. It could still be helpful for bluegrass but I don’t tend to use this approach when practicing bluegrass.

Awesome thank you!

This is a difficult tune! I’m gonna do something easier for the next one!

@@lilliansawyerfiddle as a more intermediate player I like the content. It’s very easy to find beginner lessons so you should stick to what you want to show people ;). For instance I loved the Aubrie Haynie SSotM lesson and I have watched it a few times.

You’re welcome!

Absolutely! Someone else made the same connection to Chi Gong!

I appreciate the feedback! The idea is that you’re supposed to learn the tune by ear and that I have slowed it down and broken it into bite-sized chunks to digest. I think my content is currently targeted at people who already have a familiarity with the genre and have some understanding of the fundamentals of it.

@@lilliansawyerfiddle as a professional musician and violin teacher myself, this method is fine for me. I just think that it’s a big ask for a lot of students to be able to learn a tune by ear. Your control over your fingering hand (I can’t tell whether you’re right or left handed) is incredible and at times it’s like your fingers aren’t even moving, so it’s difficult to even guess where you’re playing. I just think even putting up the sheet music would at least be of use as not everyone can just use their ears. You’re a great player and I wish you all the best. I’m not an internet troll and never comment like this usually but I was compelled as a teacher to ! ☺️

@@jezking8816 Funny. I came here to say that this lesson was at exactly the right level, exactly in the goldilocks zone for me. I'm barely a beginner at the fiddle (but coming from other instruments), and very much into learning this style of music by ear. Thank you so much. I just wanted to counter the negative feedback a bit. I HATE lessons where tunes are taught note by note. I don't have the patience for those. All to say, for some of us, this was just perfection. Thanks!

@@engelsanchez I’m happy for you. My comment was merely as a professional violin teacher, in my experience very few students can work out tunes by ear. If you read my comment properly I basically just advised to attach the sheet music for assistance to the learner. It was just an observation using my experience as a teacher. 👍🏻🎻

@@engelsanchezI appreciate your feedback as well!

Thank you Dan!

You think that would be important information haha... we're both from Portland, OR. There is a really great scene over here and Josiah is one of the best!

@@lilliansawyerfiddle haha thanks i couldn't see the about info on my phone for some reason but you totally have it covered there which i can see on my laptop. thanks for replying you guys sound great if i was in the area i would want to jam :)

I think my phone just films in mirrored version? Not actually left handed haha

Yup!

Thinking the same thing...

This is exactly right! That’s a really good way of explaining it!

Hey this is why tai chi is practiced slowly, from head to toe. It is practiced over and over in slow motion, working on maximizing the perception and conscience of every detail (or groove :-) inside: exactly *because* when used in martial art application it has to be extremely fast!