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Tatering level 3 – chord tone double stops

Level 3 is a bit more tricky, technically speaking.  This involves including other notes from the chords as they pass in a progression… not just necessarily the tonic (name of chord) and it’s fifth anymore.  This means that you’ll have to learn some (simple don’t worry) Music Theory or Music

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Tatering level 1 – play the name of each chord

Level 1 is the easiest.  I actually get a new student to do this in the very first lesson, mainly just to give them a musical experience right away!  Even if they do not hold the bow correctly, or know anything about fingering yet, in the first lesson, we can

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Tater Section

“Tater” as in po-tater po-tater or po-tato, po-tato (long – short short, long – short short bow strokes) in the Suzuki tradition, or more generally as the art of creating improvised double string back-up support parts based on the underlying chord progression of a song.  …Don’t worry, it’s not as

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Musical Priest – Irish/Celtic tune

Being a metaphysically oriented guy, I kind of think of myself as always aspiring to be a musical priest of sorts.  A priest of jamming!  ;~)  This tune caught my eye, just for its title at first, but I’ve grow to love it.  My students seem to like it

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III7-VI7-II7-V7-I Exercises

 This is the famous chord progression that is in a Rhythm Changes bridge.  I will, for study purposes, stretch them out to four bars each, to give you time to “explore” various practice techniques on each chord.  I provide them in all 15 keys below (all natural notes, and up

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Barefoot therapy

Running barefoot seems to be all the rage these days.  My Chiropractor gave it a thumbs up.  He said there is something about barefoot running that makes you use a different posture that ends up being more natural and gentle on the body… if done properly, with good technique.  I

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