How to Practice Quietly
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- These tunes are pretty much all played in Cajun tuning (DGCF smallest to largest)
which is one whole step down from Standard tuning (EADG), and the strings are called by their standard tuning names.
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I have both a solid metal and a more light weight metal wrapped in rubber. The make it VERRRY quiet. I love it.
Thanks Mitch!! This was really helpful! My wife is definitely not a fan of my sliding cajun double stops!! I think I'll try and get a metal mute so I can muck around without causing trouble!
Happy wife, happy life👍🏽
Awesome, you are a quite natural tutor thanks for the tips
Thanks! Much appreciated @Mic12
Hey I don't know if you still check on these, but I really like your teaching style. Your laugh is great. I just found your videos and will be visiting often.
I'm still here! Thanks for tuning in. I'm hoping to have some fresh episodes pretty soon; we've got a lot of things going on behind the scenes. 👍
Love that guy!
Thanks for watching!
My teacher asked me to play Nightrider and it’s so quiet; so helpful. :)
That's awesome🎻
thank you so very much !!! I learn so much from each of your videos . you nit only teach but you give hints and tips and you inspire !!! thank you for that !!!
Thanks for watching!
I had problems practicing and I almost quit. Thank you so much!!
How's it coming along?
This does NOT work for bagpipes!
Haha! No, it really doesn't
I bought myself a heavy metal mute (like the one you lost) from Shar and it is a miracle! Very quiet but no distortion! I also bought a metal one coated with rubber and a plain rubber one (I wanted to compare). The metal one is absolutely the way to go if you have downstairs neighbors who are NOT night people.
Agreed!
I'm a beginner. But one thing I found I can do at night without disturbing anyone is practice my left hand fingering just plucking the strings lightly piccicato style.
How's your violin progress?
@@Frilabird good question 🎻
OK, So how do I practice the Accordion quietly?
Woodshed it!
We put pieces of cardboard inside the ends of one very strident sqeezebox and it helped a tiny bit. You can now get an electronic accordion and play it through headphones but they are very expensive and they neither sound nor feel the same.
Ear plugs...
Air accordion like air guitar
@@helenproudfoot1692 great suggestions👍🏽
I have a fiddle which doesn't project well. I call it Number 3 Fiddle and it is very good for practicing because we have neighbours with a shared wall. It feels very like Number 1 Fiddle and it actually sounds louder under my ear. Fairly close up it sounds as loud as Number 1 but by five feet away the volume on Number 3 is diminished and there is a deadness to the sound - whereas Number 1 is loud and resonant. I picked Number 3 up when I needed a fiddle in an emergency and then discovered it had this unadvertised feature - probably the back not properly tuned. It can't be the only one. It's just how to find a poor projector when it isn't exactly a selling point!
That worked out well for you!
I can still hear the sound, live in an apartment, not good for neighbors
It’s got to be another way to practice without bothering people.
either that or just quit.
Forget the mutes, I use magnets on either sides of the bridge. It doesn't restrict your view of the strings.
That's a pretty genius hack!
So helpful
Thanks!
I need to figure out how to play quietly while living with flatmates who are doing engineering( busy studying)
Well here you have it! :)
Man. One thing that's rough about getting into the fiddle is that I get that my first $60 fiddle was crappy. But a luthier even called my $350 upgrade with later updated better quality strings, bow, rosin and bridge ... he called it crappy too lol. Like you need to have a $5k violin to be considered moderately decent. Especially bizarre when I hear stories of old cajun fiddlers making their own fiddles out of cigar boxes and cypress branches lol
Nah man, more expensive doesn't always mean you can't make those strings sing just like those pricier violins. I've got a story about a player that made his fiddle out of wire from a front door.
I was thinking, I bought my wife a Romanian fiddle for about $100 and it sounds amazing. Rich and warm, but it's not the norm. The struggle is real!
The only truly way I can cut the sound is playing my electric violin unplugged. Even with a rubber practice mute on my acoustic fiddle it will wake my wife.
The struggle is real!
Hey there, I really hope you’d see this comment, i live in a very conservative household who thinks that practicing music is forbidden and won’t allow me to have a violin. However, i’m really determined in pursuing this and i plan in purchasing a violin behind their knowledge and gonna hide it in my room. Since violin is really loud and it’s gonna be hard to hide, is there any tips you could give me? Like is there some kind of violins which are typically less loud? And is it true that we can plug an electric violin to a headphone?
Check out How to Practice Quietly for a few tips. Hope this helps! th-cam.com/video/Ms5pUWMv4oA/w-d-xo.html
I realized I didn't answer your question at the end: yes, you can plug an electric violin into headphones. By the way, I had to hide my bass under my bed when I was younger, so I understand. Keep me posted!
I practice with a mute on at night really quietly with my door closed and I swear it's like my dad has this like sixth sense that tells him when I'm practicing the violin late at night. It's kind of scary not going to lie so like I don't think that any amount of mutes will get rid of my dad's sixth sense
Funny!
you change the standar afinattion gdae to..... what afination?
I'm tuned down one whole step from standard tuning (EADG) to Cajun tuning (DGCF). My video called Talk About Cajun Tuning has more info for you, but please let me know if you have any more questions. th-cam.com/video/VCWuuqUwckA/w-d-xo.html
oh, very interesting! Very thanks for your lessons! ;)
Thank you!
anybody knows whats the song of minute 2:40??
What is the song at 12:06 ? It is a beaut!!!!!
I think I'm just playing around, actually. Thanks!
or you just grab some beer boxes and jam!
Yeah you're right!
Lmao now for ocarinas
Haha! Thanks for watching🎻
Even the quiet version sounds too loud for the neighbours. And in the beginning it will be a horrible loud sound for them.
@Evangelia, what methods have you tried to play quietly?
@@MitchReedMusicLessons I haven't yet. I'm considering buying a violin and learn how to play. But I live in a detached house, with lots of neighbours. Now with the quarantine everyone is at home and I'm worried I will annoy them much.
@@evangeliamintzai6302 Mutes work wonders. Let me know how it goes🎻