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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

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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

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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

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A-toodz – A minor

Introduction to A minor A-toodz studies A minor is a very popular key in the modern styles… especially in guitar dominated Rock and Blues music!  These studies can help you build up a vocabulary of ideas, licks, and tricks that you can then call upon in your improvisations later. The

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A-toodz – D minor

Introduction to D minor A-toodz studies D minor is a very popular key in the modern styles… especially in guitar dominated Rock and Blues music!  These studies can help you build up a vocabulary of ideas, licks, and tricks that you can then call upon in your improvisations later. The

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A-toodz – G major

Introduction to G major A-toodz studies G major is a very popular key in the modern styles… especially in Folk, Fiddle, and Blues music! These studies can help you build up a vocabulary of ideas, licks, and tricks that you can then call upon in your improvisations later. The exercises are

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A-toodz – B minor

Introduction to B minor A-toodz studies B minor is a very popular key in the modern styles… especially in guitar dominated Rock and Blues music!  These studies can help you build up a vocabulary of ideas, licks, and tricks that you can then call upon in your improvisations later. The

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