Hey Fiddle Jammers! I hope this finds you all happy and increasingly tapped in to your creative muse. I am sending this quick email note to all our members, outside of our normal newsletter, as I need your advice on some ideas I’m brewing on. Your input could effect the
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Newsletter Early July 2016
Welcome to another installment of the Fiddle Jam Club Newsletter! Welcome newest club members: Adam, Jaron, Jack, Richard, Luis, Jada, Melba, Joyce, Vihn, Mandy, Clark, Angie, Katherine!!! May you all have many joyful and happy jams! Newsletter Topics Below: 1) Featured Lesson of the Month 2) News
Gamalon Billy’s Saloon Footage from 1988
By fiddlejamman on July 4, 2016 in Blues, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, E minor, Founder’s Blog, Fusion, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jazz Fusion, Lesson List, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Music History, Performance Footage, progressive rock
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
iFiddle Magazine Column List
Here’s an auto sorted and automatically updated list of each of my iFiddle Magazine columns. Enjoy!
New iFiddle Column – July 2016
Double Stop Tutorial – iFiddle Magazine Column
Double Stop Tutorial – iFiddle Magazine Column
By fiddlejamman on July 3, 2016 in “Tater”, By Knowledge, By Sight, Gigger Level, iFiddle Magazine, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Music Mechanics
Here’s the video from my monthly column in iFiddle Magazine for July 2016. Enjoy! Note: you can skip ahead to about the 4 minute mark if you already know how to bow on double strings and want to get to the four levels of difficulty in understanding and being able
Violin Humor Section
We all can use a laugh sometimes. I just started this list and will attempt to organize all Violin Humor posts here. Enjoy! Please leave comments below and/or suggest others!