🎻 Slow Down to Speed Up
🎻 Slow Down to Speed Up
A Play-by-Ear Scottish Fiddle Workshop with Colin MacLeod
What if improving your fiddle playing wasn't about pushing harder… but about slowing down in the right way?
"When you slow things right down, you start to hear things you've never noticed before. And that's when your playing transforms."
Join Scottish fiddle player and educator Colin MacLeod for a unique immersive workshop at The Painting Class — a warm, creative art studio in the heart of Bellevue, Richmond — designed to help you play with greater ease, authenticity, and confidence.
We work entirely by ear — no sheet music, no dots on a page — using the same oral tradition that has carried Scottish music across generations.
🎻 What You'll ExperienceDuring this 2.5-hour workshop, you will:
✨ The extended 2.5-hour format allows for deeper learning, more musical flow, and a relaxed, enjoyable experience.
Choose Your Ticket
🎁 Included With Every Ticket
- 🎥 Full workshop recording
- 🎼 Celtic Fiddle Starter Pack
- 📩 Practice notes & follow-up guidance
- 💻 One live follow-up online group session (approx. 7–10 days after)
The Learning Doesn't Stop When the Afternoon Does
Approximately 7–10 days after the workshop, we'll reconnect online as a group where you can:
- 🎵 Reinforce the tune together
- ❓ Ask questions that have come up in your practice
- ✨ Refine ornamentation and technique
- 💪 Gain confidence and momentum
- 🤝 Continue learning within a supportive community
✨ Many participants experience their biggest breakthrough during the follow-up session.
The Painting Class, Bellevue, Richmond
The Painting Class is a warm, creative art studio in the heart of Bellevue — one of Richmond's most vibrant and community-minded neighbourhoods. It's the perfect setting to slow down, connect, and let the music breathe.
2:00pm – 4:30pm
No music stand needed.
This workshop is ideal for:
🎵 Why This Approach Works
- 👂 Traditional Scottish music was always passed down by ear
- 🤝 Through community — not solo practice in isolation
- 🥁 Through rhythm, feel, and shared experience
This workshop reconnects you to that tradition in a supportive, modern setting — so you leave not just with a tune, but with a new way of hearing music.
Scottish-born. Highland-raised.
Playing since childhood.
Colin MacLeod grew up near Inveraray in the Scottish Highlands, where music was something you absorbed — from ceilidhs, from kitchen sessions, from listening to the people around you. That upbringing shaped everything about how he teaches.
As the founder of Celtic Fiddle Guru and the School of Celtic Fiddle Mastery, Colin has taught play-by-ear Scottish fiddle across the US and internationally, helping players at every level discover what it truly means to make the music breathe.
His approach is warm, story-led, and deeply rooted in cultural tradition — focused on musical flow, relaxed technique, and the joy of playing together.
⚡ Limited Spaces Available
To ensure personal attention and meaningful follow-up, this experience is limited to 20 participants. Early booking is strongly recommended.