One of the most BLUESY melodies Beethoven ever composed! It always sounds half drunken to me with all those 1/2 step wobbles… so, I decided it might be cool to give it a bluesy back-up, in this example, a cajun/zydeco effected accordion, played by my friend Michael Ward-Bergman and some
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I – IV – V Chord Number System
The three strongest and most important chords within a key, sometimes called “tonic” sub-dominant” & “dominant” (in Classical Music). These chords within a key are the basis for 90% of ALL music, from Classical to Heavy metal and beyond! Want to learn more about this? Click here for more info
Note Number System
Sometimes called the “interval” system, the Note Number System is way of explaining how music notes relate to each other within a key or scale and is quite universal in the “gigging” world. <<:Want to learn about this? Click here for more info on our free Fiddle Jam Club membership
Amazing Grace
Description: This very popular Christian spiritual tune* has crossed many style boundaries. Countless students have requested it from me over the years. I’ll include it here. I’ve included it here in two separate but popular and fiddle-friendly keys: G & A. The G version is lower and sweeter sounding, and
Acadian Two-Step
Description: This one’s a bit more challenging, but well worth the effort. I personally love the whole Cajun “thang” (see Side Notes below). I honestly do NOT hear this tune much at Pickin’ Parties and jams, but it is pretty cool, and the chords are easy enough to teach others
Sugarfoot Rag
Fiddle Tune Topics: Melody, A Mixolydian, A Blues, A Major Pentatonic, slides, intermediate technical challenges, creating backup parts, improvisation. Description: I like this one. It is decently simple and fairly repetitive. It was taught to me by a friend the old fashioned way… by ear, one note at a time
Angeline the Baker
Hey! That’s not Bluegrass!… yes, that is true… you tell ME what style it is! …a good tune is a good tune, and can be re-interpreted in any number of ways. That’s my good friend Michael Ward Bergman on accordion… we are calling this group “Viordion”!?! Description: One of my