Here’s another installment of my thoughts of the day. This one’s fairly short at just a little over 9 minutes. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Leave me some comments! In-a-nutshell: It used to be that live music was all there was. Then recordings and radio were
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E minor Tabla Jam
Here’s a new one I created in GarageBand for a student’s Call & Answer session recently. It worked very well for her! This particular student is a super-smart teen who is going to college early and has a very developed left/logical side of her brain… so much so that she
Swamp Fiddle for iFiddle Magazine
Here’s my April 2016 column for iFiddle Magazine called “Swamp Fiddle.” What’s Swamp Fiddle you may ask? It’s my favorite! Watch the videos to find out! Promotional Video: Join our free Fiddle Jam Club to see the whole lesson! It’s free! Just click here.Here’s my April 2016
Classical CrossOver Fears Truck Talk
Here’s another Truck Talk about the fears some Classically trained musicians, who might desire to get “hip” and not be so tied to the written page, have to face. As you might guess, most fears are fairly irrational at their core and are usually quite unfounded. In this 20 minute
Moonlight Drive Jam Track
I first created this jam-along track for inclusion in a lesson I did for iFiddle Magazine on the Magic of Blues Scales. It is “in-the-style-of” the great electric violin icon Jean Luc Ponty and a rough take-off of the tune “Sunset Drive” on his “Taste for Passion” album (with
Beethoven’s Oven
Here’s a tune that I’ve become a bit enamored with lately. It is the first section of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, the 2nd Movement. I of course, had heard it many times before, but it didn’t really get on my radar for our uses here until hearing a Bashar (the spirit
Newsletter – March 2016
Welcome to another installment of the Fiddle Jam Club Newsletter! Welcome newest club members: Leon, Fae, Robert, Alice, Alex, Peggy, Mark, D, Becky, Nathan, Kat, Lee, Todd, Sarah, Kitty, Shannon, Kurt, Dennis, Anna, Kay, Izzy, Bobbie, Gunter, Stephen, Heidi, Gerry, Marcus, Gene, Rachel, Leslie, Scott!!!! May