Chinquapin Hunting

A Fiddle Tune with a Magical Melody

This beautiful fiddle tune works great in the single string style of banjo. No capo gives allows us to use that nice low open D string sound. This lesson walks you trough the basic arrangement and highlights some nice Celtic style licks. You'll learn some great left and right hand techniques to really bring some fresh sounds into this tune.

10 Video Lessons
5 Licks

1

Overview

Looking Ahead

Chinquapin Hunting is a wonderful fiddle tune. Whenever learning a new tune you need to listen as much as you play. While daily practice is crucial, so is daily listening. If you use Spotify or app...
2

A Section

Getting Started

Even though the melody is simple, it's still very beautiful. Look over the A section and you'll notice some of the measures are nearly identical. Measures 2 and 4 are exactly alike. Measures 3 and ...
3

B Section

Moving On

In the A section, our melody was based on the low D, and G string, for the most part. In the B section, the melody stays mostly on the B string, and high D string. Having the melody in different re...
4

Ready, and Pull!

A Celtic Style Pull Off Lick

The pull off in this lick is inspired by the nimble slurs heard in Celtic music. They're often so quick they don't actually have a note value. They happen almost instantaneously. However, anything ...
5

Upping The Ante

A Celtic Style Lick with Two Slurs

This lick picks up where we left off in the last lesson. We maintain the quick pull-off and apply it to some different places on the fretboard. Because these slurs happen so fast, sometimes we can ...
6

High and Lonesome

Applying the Celtic Style Pull-Off to a lick in the B section

In this lick, we take what we've learned before, and simply apply it to a lick in the B section. This lick is on the treble strings. It sounds really nice if you can leave that B string ringing.
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Third Time's a Challenge

A Tough Lick with Two Styles of Triplets

If you were waiting for something challenging, the wait is over. This lick uses two types of triplets, in two different ways. The first is a 1/16th note triplet(3 notes in the space of one 1/16th n...
8

Gettin' Swole

A Triplet Exercise to Help Build Right Hand Dexterity

This exercise is straightforaward. Put it at a tempo you can play with ease! That means to struggle, no tension, and little to no mistakes. Once you find that tempo, put in the reps! . Doing thi...
9

Getting Tricky

A Triplet on an Inside String

An inside string is simply any string other than the small G or D string. Licks that happen on snide strings using 2 or three fingers can be quite challenging. Since you've practiced the triplet be...
10

Fingers Be Buff

Another Exercise to help Build Solid Muscle Memory

Manageable speed. No Tension. Few Mistakes. PUT IN THE REPS!
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Where to Next?

Some Ideas of Tunes to Check Out

Since we've been working out of the key of D in the single string style, "Whiskey Before Breakfast" is another great tune in the Key of D. Since the melody of Chinquapin is probably pulsing through...