Learning by ear
Here I’m getting restarted after a bit of a hiatus. I plan on this being the beginning of a series of videos where I will regularly practice live and talk about select keys and their riffs and tricks from my book “Rock n Blues Fiddle Jam A-Toodz” which
Fisher’s Hornpipe is a catchy little tune that seems pretty common at Pickin’ Parties. Free Fiddle Jam Club members get to see a tutorial on how to improvise EZ back-ups to this song. Our All Access Pass members get to view ALL the lesson materials which include: My performance example,
Here’s a cool violin part from the big country music hit Seminole Wind by John Anderson. Not only does this tune have a cool vibe, I take a personal shine to it since the lyric mentions the historic North Central Florida town that is very near where I currently
Ragtime Annie has come our way thanks to a member’s request of her favorite tune! I have quite a few audio lesson and play-along tracks below, starting with a talk-thru and super-slow version (1 & 2). Always an excellent reference, the Fiddler’s FakeBook (Oak Publications) has a version that I’ve
Grading improv… isn’t that anti-improv?? As an educator, it’s a strange thing… if improvisation is simply making stuff up, then it logically follows that you should be allowed to do anything you want and nothing is really “wrong” …right?? But what if you are a teacher, teaching improvisation, and need
I stumbled onto this Gamalon footage from 1988 today. That’s me on a home-made violin I called EVI (minus the gray hair we see today!). I had probably been in the band about a year at this point, but you can readily hear how developed our sound was even in
May 2016 Here’s the video for my column in iFiddle Magazine for May 2016 on the in’s and out’s of sitting in with a band with your fiddle. It is intended to be a preview of materials and ideas that I will be putting into a course: “The Fiddle
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