OK, I know there are a few topics on this already, but I'm in search of some specific help here...
I've been working on right-hand technique for a few weeks now.
I can bum-ditty, and drop thumb, and double thumb over chords.
Not hardly proficient, but at least I get the feel. (I'm a mandolin and guitar player foraging through this new wilderness...)
So I want to try some fiddle tunes or similar. There are so many sites and videos out there that say essentially this: "Ok, once you learn to do this [drop thumb or whatever], you can do stuff like this!" And then the player will haul off on some tune at regular speed and all I see is a flurry of fingers and thumb and I have absolutely no idea how they got from A [the technique] to B [the tune].
What I'd LOVE to see is a teacher who could film themselves playing a fiddle tune at 25 percent speed (or whatever), so i can see the relationship between the finger and the thumb, the bum and the ditty... and the melody that's the outcome and the point of the whole thing.
Without seeing it, I get frustrated and I seem to backslide into a "fingerpicking" kind of thing, which sounds cool, but it's not what I set out to learn!
Can I get a witness?