My practice and backing tracks

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I am an adult beginner (maybe intermeidiate) fiddler. Mostly Irish Traditional tunes. I have been using Strum Machine for ~4 years. When I am learning new tunes by ear I make a solitary A part that loops until I get comfortable, then I do the increase speed to get up to session level. I do this with the B part as well. I have a practice list that contains things like “Drowsy Maggie A, Drowsy Maggie B, Ger the Rigger A, etc.”.

I also play with several others monthy at an assisted living home. Several of the tunes in our set are backed by tracks I made from SM. I usually put a 2 measure intro, then into the tune.

Thanks, this is really helpful to me and my group.

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I’m glad to hear that Strum Machine is working well for you!

The approach of making separate “songs” that contain just one part of a tune has its advantages, but I want to make sure that you and anyone else reading this knows that you can loop just part of a tune by clicking-and-dragging over the chords, like selecting text:

Animation showing how to make a loop

Also if you want a longer count-in, there’s a “Double length count-in” option available under the Count-Ins menu on the right of the song. More count-in options will be coming in the future.

Keep it up! :blush:

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