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Styles Page

By 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

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Fiddler’s Tab

By 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

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G Jam

By 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 

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Gypsy Jazz – Section

By on March 13, 2013 in Artist Level, By Knowledge, Gigger Level, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Section/Title Pages, Style Studies

Gypsy Jazz is a style of music that was first developed in the Paris, France area by gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and his side-kick violinist Stephane Grappelli in the 1930’s and 40’s.  Gypsy Jazz, sometimes called “Hot Club” music after Django & Stephane’s original group “The Quintet of the Hot

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