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RE: Adding fill-ins during a song

Bill Christy Project — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:55:45 GMT

It comes with time, getting out to jams and sitting in. as far as playing along to music, don't just focus on the fiddle parts. I learn all the fill ins no matter what instrument, horn, keys, bass, and when I do my fill ins I take a little from each.

RE: Adding fill-ins during a song

Dulcimerist — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:32:51 GMT

Welcome to the forums!

A fill is generally a bit of improvisation, so there's not a basic "rule" of sorts. It's up to the artistic expression of the musician. My basic advice is to get familiar and comfortable in playing the melody of a particular song, then use a flourish or embellishment of the melody for the fill.

If you're wanting to add a fill during a spot that occurs before a chord change, then a transitional fill would be good - one that starts at the original chord, moving to the new chord.

It's difficult to find the words to articulate how to really describe good advice on this. Hopefully other forum users can be more helpful than I.

Adding fill-ins during a song

newfiddler — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:40:28 GMT

I am a beginning fiddle player. I was wondering how you know how to improvise on fill-ins? I can hear a song on a CD and learn the fill-ins that they play but I don't really know how to do it myself. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions.

Thnkas,
Jen