Hello,

  Well the fiddle songs are coming along....SLOWLY!  I know practicing every day helps, but it's just not happening fast enough.  I seem to be able to hit all the notes and then I try to speed it up and then it turns into all squeaks! :-)  Where's Sarah when you need her?  "Sarah"!  :-)  My songs that I am working on are Temperance Reel, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Whalen's Breakdown, Black Velvet Waltz, Country Waltz, Cripple Creek, Arkansas Traveler and Bowing The Strings.  Oh that last song is SO hard! 

  I am teaching my sister Rachel as much as I know about playing.  She got a nice fiddle/violin(viddle) like mine for christmas.  I am going thru the same book with her as I used called The Violin Book(that's hard to remember isn't it? LOL!)  1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.  There's a book 6a that teaches vabrato(sp?) but I never did that one..  The books are pretty self explanitory which I like.   Rachel is coming along great.  Her only thing is that I don't know how far she will get with reading music because she plays incredible by ear!  She can hear a song once, and then pick it out.  We'll see.

 Happy viddlin!

Anna