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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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Gypsy Sound – Anatomy

By on March 11, 2013 in A minor, By Ear, By Knowledge, By Sight, D minor, E minor, Fiddler’s Tab, G minor, Gigger Level, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Harmonic Minor Scale, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Jazz, Lesson List, Music History, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

 The anatomy of the gypsy sound is characterized by the Harmonic Minor Scale.  Classically trained violinists will probably already know this scale well, but if you are a fiddler, or just used to jamming to rock and blues based music, as I myself was at one time, then this

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Harmonic Squeal Faux Feedback Technique

By on March 5, 2013 in Artist Level, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Gigger Level, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Jamming 104, Lesson List, Rock, Vibrato, VioTek

If you have been alive on this planet, anytime in the last 50 years or so, for sure, somewhere, you have heard an iconic wailing electric guitar hold out a long sustained note that breaks into a high squealing sound as the guitarist masterfully moves closer to the amplifier and

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