Hey Fiddle Jammers! I just posted a new jam for you that uses the D Dorian scale/mode. It came from a jam we made up on-the-spot during a private lesson (hear the live recording with adult student Bill too). I liked the groove of it so much that I later
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Student MM101 Course homework Blog page info & link
Course participants: Send me your YouTube links whenever you are ready and I’ll post them to the blog. So far I’ve gotten Anders, Tom and Lisa’s. Nice job all! This is too cool. Since this is the first time doing this, we are working out the kinks as we go.
New EZ version of Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
I found a new EZ version of Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here that I had created and forgot to post. It should be especially good for those who may struggle a bit with reading standard staff notation. I left some suggestions as to how to practice and apply
Personal Updates
Hey Fiddle Jammers, Fitz here. I’m feeling the need to share a bit of an apology for the lack of activity on the FJi website this past month. Things have been super busy on the homefront, with some family illness and visitors coming and going, and me having to also
Get The Led Out Guitarist’s illuminated bow
I met “Get the Led Out” guitarist Paul Hammond while he was purchasing an extra bow at Guitar Center in Gainesville, Florida to use in their Led Zeppelin tribute show re-creating Jimmy Page’s famous bowing of the electric guitar. He invited me to their show at University of Florida’s Philips
Webinar #1 March 12, 2014 Replay
By fiddlejamman on March 19, 2014 in Blues, Bulletin Board, By Key, By Scale, By Topic, D major, E minor, Folk Fiddle, Founder’s Blog, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Lesson List, Major Scale, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Open Office Hours, Webinar
Here is it, for those who missed it, or want to review. We had about 15 minutes of technical chaos at the beginning (edited out here)… I thought I was ready and knew how to run the webinar software!… not quite… will do better in the future, I promise! In
Our First Webinar!
OK, thanks to those who attended, and thanks and sorry for those that tried to attend and gave up after or 15 minutes or so of technical glitches! We did end up doing the webinar and it will be posted for replay (after I edit out the chaos part!). I