It’s back! After it’s initial month-long members-only run in 2014, the Fiddle Jam Music Mechanics 101 Course has been updated and is now available separately from our School Store. 5 modules and 38 lesson units will give you all the knowledge and confidence you’ll need to know to navigate
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News from Fiddle Jam Institute founder Geoffrey Fitzhugh Perry
Fiddle Jam 101 Course Re-Release!
OK! Forward! I finally got the new version 2.0 of the Fiddle Jam 101 Course up for sale in the School Store! This new version has Lifetime, and random do-in-any-order access, with 8 modules and a whopping 77 units! Webinars, tutorials, charts, jam-along tracks, quizzes, and even an opportunity
Improvisation as Therapy
My thought for the day: Improvisation is therapy for over-thinkers (which I myself tend to be). They say that the teacher teaches what they most need to learn themselves! I myself have also said that passions, which to the best of my knowledge, no one knows from whence they
Stormy Monday Lesson improvements
It took me a few hours of work, but I finally scratched one off my to-do list today! I created a much improved melody and chord chart for my T.Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday” Blues Lesson. Gone is the old hand-written chart. I made some hard choices when figuring out
iFiddle Johnny Gimble Tribute Lesson
Famed Western Swing fiddle icon Johnny Gimble passed this week. He was 88. Mike Spears of iFiddle Magazine asked me to do a little tribute piece about Johnny. I tell of my experience playing his parts at a Bob Wills Festival. I hope you enjoy! It is a fun memory
New Cajun Zydeco Lessons!
They’ve been on my to-do list for a while. Sorry for the wait. This style was an important 10-year journey in my history and remains close to my heart as a “humbling element”… in that, no matter how virtuosic of a player you might be, nobody will much care at
New My Path Learning Suggestions System!
OK! I’m very happy to announce that, after a few failed software plugin attempts (one that we think crashed the site for a couple hours a few weeks ago! Yikes!), I put a solid week-and-a-half of work into D.I.Y-ing my own homemade system to address the increasing complaint that many