It took me a few hours of work, but I finally scratched one off my to-do list today! I created a much improved melody and chord chart for my T.Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday” Blues Lesson. Gone is the old hand-written chart. I made some hard choices when figuring out
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D Major Circus Jam
Here’s a fun one. I created this for inclusion in a Teacher Training Course that I’ve been brewing on for quite some time, and have requests for, but I see no reason to not let all of you have some jamming fun with it too! It sounds like a circus
Ear Training Foundations
Today I was giving advice to a talented DJ/turntablist, who wanted to develop his knowledge of music and his ear, so that he could more quickly find samples that fit in with other instrumentalists creatively. Cool idea. Here’s the 2 quick points I taught him that should get
iFiddle Johnny Gimble Tribute Lesson
Famed Western Swing fiddle icon Johnny Gimble passed this week. He was 88. Mike Spears of iFiddle Magazine asked me to do a little tribute piece about Johnny. I tell of my experience playing his parts at a Bob Wills Festival. I hope you enjoy! It is a fun memory
Place your video in FJi comment forms
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed our YouTube video within a Fiddle Jam Institute lesson’s “Leave a Reply” comment form or submit your video homework assignments in our courses. NOTE: (Late Oct 2020) After hearing that YouTube had changed it’s coding to make it even simpler to
Fiddle Jam Institute Newsletter Vol 4 #2 May 12, 2015
Welcome to another installment of the Fiddle Jam Club Newsletter! I purposely have not been sending too many of these of late, as I’m kind of sensitive to bombarding people with a bunch of stuff that might not matter to them… If your inbox is anything like mine, I’m
New Cajun Zydeco Lessons!
They’ve been on my to-do list for a while. Sorry for the wait. This style was an important 10-year journey in my history and remains close to my heart as a “humbling element”… in that, no matter how virtuosic of a player you might be, nobody will much care at