A joyous holiday song from the 1600’s!You’ll need to be acquainted with lowered 2nd fingerings on the A & E strings (CL2 and GL2) for the key of G version, and also low 1’s on the A & E strings for the key of F version, if you want to
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Jingle Bells
Iconic Holiday Tune. EZ key of D.
Silent Night
Description: A favorite holiday tune written by a church organist who’s organ broke on Christmas eve! He made up this song so the congregation would have something simple & beautiful to sing un-accompanied. Description: A favorite holiday tune written by a church organist who’s organ broke on Christmas eve! He
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Description: A perennial favorite. Fiddle-friendly key of D. Knowledge of Italian markings “Da Capo al fine” needed. Da = to, Capo = Cap/top/beginning, al = until, fine (fee-nay) = finish/end. These kind of directional markings were invented to save ink, and effort, back when most of the famous composers lived
Frosty The Snowman
By fiddlejamman on November 28, 2013 in By Key, D major, Holiday Songs, Learning Methods, Major Scale, Note Name – Finger Number, Staff Notation
Description: The perennial “politically correct” holiday favorite (not one mention of religion!). Easy key of D. Knowledge of numbered repeat endings and italian ending signs: “Da Capo al Coda” or D.C. al Coda needed. Da = to, Capo = cap/top/beginning, al = until, Coda = ending section (in this case,
Practice vs Performance – Yin & Yang – Stephan Wremble article report
By fiddlejamman on November 21, 2013 in Artist Level, By Knowledge, Founder’s Blog, Lesson List, Master Class, Music Essentials, Music Philosophy, Wit & Wisdom
Reading the latest (December 2013) issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine today (with another of my own inspirate-ors, Willie Nelson on the cover), and liked very much something that Babik friend and supporter, super guitarist (one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s top 100 guitarists of all time) Stephan Wremble said in a
Second Octave Intervals – 9ths, 11ths &13ths
By fiddlejamman on November 20, 2013 in Artist Level, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH
Knowledge of second octave intervals comes into play quite a bit in Jazz chording. What are they?… Remember, chords, in general are built using every OTHER note of a scale… so, with this idea we’d use 1 – 3 – 5 – 7 – THEN continue on to 9, 11,