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Sorry for such a beginner question here but I recently bought some boutique rosin and I'm having issues with the rosin building up on the strings and causing ghost notes or unintended tones. I have to get a microfiber and wipe the buildup off the strings every song or so.

I've always used the cheap $7 amazon rosin that falls all over the fiddle, but I recently thought I would buy some boutique rosin on Etsy/eBay after seeing some recommended. I tried it and it has great bite and really sounds great, but it doesn't fall on the fiddle like the cheap stuff and really builds up so quickly on the strings.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Should I just go back to the cheap stuff? Maybe I'm using too much? I've also wiped the whole bow strings down with a clean microfiber and that hasn't helped much either.

Been playing a year. I’ve noticed after a while and several tunings my bridge starts to lean forward. I usually loosen a little and push it back in place.

Cheap starter fiddle. Is this normal? Are there ways to do it better or stop it?

I found a tune called Nightingale played by him in the Field Recorders Collective Survey of Traditional Music British Tradition album and I would love to hear more. There's another tune on a Kentucky compilation which leads me to thinking that he's from the Kentucky tradition. I love his sound but I can't find anything other than the FRC recordings.

I've been learning Whiskey Before Breakfast from the Peghead Nation's Beginning Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddle course. I've been playing fiddle for about 6 months.

I'm finding that there are many variations of the song. What I'm wanting to emulate is something like this performance (linked). I'm referring to the first verse/core melody they play, not when they start noodling on different ornamentation. In my mind this is classic Whiskey Before Breakfast. I love how dance-y it sounds. I know some of this is in the bowing and technique.

TLDR; I want to find some instruction/tutorial that teaches the melody of WBB that matches that video.

I think I've found one closer than the Peghead Nation version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVolE3uW01A

Would you agree ArtistWorks Tutorial's melody is close to what we hear in that performance. Any other thoughts or resources for learning that melody?