How to play slides with your violin (or fiddle)

Helpful tips to perform slides in violin or fiddle repertoire

In this video, beginning violin teacher and fiddle expert Lora Staples teaches how to easily perform and apply slides to any violin or fiddle piece.

Released on April 3, 2013

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Christie Locke Gammie on May 23, 2018 @12:50 pm PST

Thank you. My daughter is learning the violin and she's been in floods of tears trying to do a slide for the first time in Si Ji Ge. (Grade 2 piece) I will show her your video - I think it will help!!

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Kim Taylor on October 17, 2014 @3:13 am PST

Thank you for this!

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Fadjar Bastaman * VSM MEMBER * on June 16, 2013 @11:20 pm PST

Hello Lora. It is very useful for me as a beginner. My question is, is playing slides only for pop song (country music etc) ? I like you to teach how to play vibrato. Thank you.

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Lora - host, on June 17, 2013 @6:07 pm PST

Great question, Fadjar!
In general, slides are only for fiddle, country, pop, blues, jazz music. But there are ways of putting slides into classical music, such as an "expressive shift" can create a little slide. The main idea is that in classical music, make it more discreet, more subtle.

Vibrato is coming! I am trying to get the class all ready for you!
--Lora

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Fadjar * VSM MEMBER * on June 19, 2013 @2:16 am PST

Thanks Lora, it's great. I am enjoying to practice it as I am auto-didactic.
Greeting from Indonesia.

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Lora - host, on June 19, 2013 @5:26 pm PST

You also taught me a wonderful new word! "autodidactic" :-)

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