Classic Jazz tune from 1925 that is covered in all kinds of jazz settings from ragtime to modern jazz & lounge groups. I will especially focus on this song in the Gypsy Jazz style. Here’s the melody and chord chart to get us started. There have been many, many interpretations
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Reverse Engineer Mandolin Strumming to Fiddle
By fiddlejamman on March 21, 2013 in By Sight, Lesson List, Mandolin for the violinist, Non-violin/fiddle
Learn some techniques on how to reverse engineer mandolin strumming and apply it to your fiddle for some ukelele-type sounds. Part 1: video… View more of this content! Check out our two options of becoming an officially registered FJI member! <<::>> Learn some techniques on how to reverse engineer
AC/DC – an educational homerun!
By fiddlejamman on March 21, 2013 in Blues Scale, By Key, By Scale, E minor, Heavy Metal, Lesson List, Rock, Style Studies, Teacher Training
Teachers! Check it out! how I got a troublesome student attentive and involved by teaching her this iconic Rock song!… Non-members: Want to learn more about this and other Fiddle Jammin’ topics? Click here for more info on our free Fiddle Jam Club membership and “ALL ACCESS PASS” full Fiddle
New Jam Lessons (not in original Fiddle Jam Book)
Check out these links to lessons and tunes developed after the original Fiddle Jam Book was released! “G Jam” Fun! A great starting point! “E minor Piano Funk” – New Orleans groove. D Dorian Jam – New Student jam-along C Jam – new jam-along D Major
Styles Page
By fiddlejamman on March 21, 2013 in Bluegrass Fiddle, Blues, Cajun-Zydeco, Celtic-Irish-Fiddle, Cornerstone Styles, Country, Folk Fiddle, Fusion, Grunge, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Heavy Metal, HipHop, Isms, Skisms & Hybrids, Jam Band, Jazz, Latin, Lesson List, Memphis Country Blues, Old Time Fiddle, Punk Rock, Reggae violin, Rock, Roots Rock, Section/Title Pages, Style Studies, Swamp Fiddle
Check out these lessons on particular styles of music and how violin/fiddle is applied to them! Many more to come! “Cornerstone” Styles Rock – from early 1950’s “Rock n Roll” through Folk & Pop Rock, and all the way to Punk Rock & Heavy Metal! Jazz – an
Fiddler’s Tab
By fiddlejamman on March 18, 2013 in Bluegrass Fiddle, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Country, Fiddle Tunes, Fiddler’s Tab, Folk Fiddle, Lesson List, Music Mechanics, Old Time Fiddle, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Section/Title Pages, Style Studies, Teacher Training
”Fiddler’s Tab” (FT) is a notation system for violinists that is popular with non-staff reading fiddler’s and often used by teachers with their beginning students. I think I myself was taught this system for the first couple of months of my playing back when I was 9 years old. Simple
G Jam
By fiddlejamman on March 18, 2013 in Beyond the Book, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Cornerstone Styles, Fiddle Jam, Gigger Level, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Lesson List, New Jam lessons, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Rock, Roots Rock, Style Studies
Here’s a new jam lesson I put together after the Fiddle Jam Book came out. Enjoy. G Jam performance video: check out what can be done with this track! Want to learn how to jam like this? Click here for more info on our free Fiddle Jam Club membership and