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[quinnr]

So, this summer I am learning to play the violin. Yay for me. (For orchestra.)
But fiddling sounds so much more awesome and fun.

So my question is: How different are they? I know it's the same instrument, but how hard would it be to go from the classical style to fiddling? 

[Jackrabbit]

If you can do one you can do the other. the empirical evidence I was presented with suggests as much.

[Nikov]

This would be a hard question to answer, as one would need to know how to play both classical and fiddle to give you an educated opinion. However if you look at it in the sense of piece music versus jazz, I would presume learning the fundamentals and higher levels of traditional music would give you a good grounding to build your own creative play.

[Jackrabbit]

I do know a friend who went from classical to fiddling for a while and he picked it up very, very easily. Probably it'll be the same for you if you've already got a strong foundation in the violin, like Nikov said.

[Grakelin]

I haven't had much issue moving between musical styles in other instruments (piano and guitar), so I imagine violin isn't much different.

I had an argument with these two engineer grad students who insisted the fiddle and the violin were different instruments once. Those guys think they know everything. Today one of them tried to tell me that Paris's road system was naturally formed.

[Nikov]

I haven't had much issue moving between musical styles in other instruments (piano and guitar), so I imagine violin isn't much different.

I had an argument with these two engineer grad students who insisted the fiddle and the violin were different instruments once. Those guys think they know everything. Today one of them tried to tell me that Paris's road system was naturally formed.

Even in the broadest sense of naturally (say, 'people just naturally walked certain paths and roads popped up') that's plainly false since they deliberately widened the streets during the Haussmann renovations. Which came back to haunt them when the Paris Commune turned the broad streets into grapeshot and musket killing fields. To which French troops blasted through adjoining walls in houses to outmaneuver the barricades. Very 'Stalingrad', 1870's street fighting.

[SolarShado]

Learn to play "Devil Went Down to Georgia"