Well i'm nearly 3 weeks in to Dans "from scratch" book, and i'm delighted with my progress (double thumbing my 3rd tune!!!). but as i have no teacher here, i was wondering how important it is to sound the drone string, whilst picking fiddle tunes?, i suppose the question is "how loud" should i sound the drone string,obviously using double thumbing i'm hitting the drone every second note, but sometimes i feel that, the 5th string note is only "making up the numbers".
so, should i give the 5th string "some wellie" (a British term, for with gusto), or should i use it just to make up the numbers?
brumski