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One-String Diddley Bow How to Make a Diddley Bow: A Simple One-String Blues Slide Guitar By Marcy Paulson on Nov 30, 2010 Read more at Suite101: How to Make a Diddley Bow: A Simple One-String Blues Slide Guitar | Suite101 http://suite101.com/article/how-to-make-a-diddley-bow-a-simple-one-string-blues-slide-guitar-a315201#ixzz2HY5lHXwq Follow us: @suite101 on Twitter | Suite101 on Facebook other articles on how to play a diddley bow, history, etc.

also by Marcy Paulson on Suite101: http://suite101.com/article/learn-to-fiddle-with-the-nashville-shuffle-a74349

The most popular fiddle shuffle in old time music is called the Nashville shuffle. This is the bowing pattern that lends tunes their hoedown feel. The Nashville shuffle helps break up a long stream of notes and put emphasis on the right beats. To play a Nashville shuffle, a fiddler will kick off with a long bow followed by two short bows. ... * * * Fiddlers often use the Nashville shuffle to kick off a tune or fill in monotonous quarter notes in melodies like “Boil Them Cabbage Down.” To do this, they play one long bow and then two short bows in a pattern that can be spoken “strawberry, strawberry.”

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