File: arsenaultlouise06-oh-acadiansyncopation_M.mp3
Speakers
LA: Louise Arsenault
KP: Ken Perlman
LA: When you do the shuffle it's like two up bows in a row.
KP: Can you take your fiddle and illustrate that
LA: I sure can, like with this one here.
Louise Illustrates "shuffles" for the tune Twin Sisters
KP: When I've watched this technique on video you see bow the going up and down just like normal, but you only hear the two upstrokes.
LA: Right
KP: So what's happening, it seems like that second downstroke…
LA: You don't play it!
KP: Right. Like you're moving [the bow], but you don't [play those notes]
LA: See, so you wouldn't do the note in between. You would silence it.
KP: But how do you silence it? Do you just release pressure on the bow? You're sort of relaxing the bow and letting it slide down.
LA: Exactly. Yeah. You hear it a little bit at times.
LA: How would I put it?. Because of my style of playing this is what I really, really want to hear when I teach a student I want to hear that, and then it's, "Wow, they're playing my style; I love it." So that's why I wanted to teach it, to teach first of call 'cause that was Dad's style.