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Learning by ear
Fiddle Jam 101 Course has been updated!
Hey there Fiddle Jammers! I heard from one of our students that they could not view a bunch of the videos in the Fiddle Jam 101 Course materials. Thanks for the heads-up Artisto! Should be all fixed now. What happens sometimes is, host platforms, in this case YouTube, change their
Master Sixteenth Note Reading
I have given this exercise to hundreds of my private students over the last 40+ years. Rhythm is king, and reading rhythms is the secret to learning to read music notation effortlessly. The rhythms presented below are ALL the possible sixteenth and eighth note combinations that can exist within one
iFiddle Magazine Special COVID-19 Lesson
Here’s a copy of a video lesson I did for Mike Spears at his online iFiddle Magazine. He asked all past interviewee’s (I was on the cover for issue #8), if they would supply something during the COVID-19 pandemic for fiddle folks to learn from while they were sequestered in
B minor A-Toodz play-along practice session
B minor. A cool key that was featured in my original Fiddle Jam book. Here in the A-Toodz book, I run through some sample riff and tricks from the 3 levels and one “Groove Tood.” Read along from your book or just follow along by ear (recommended even if you
Box Blues Complete Study Lesson
You could learn this cool blues violin tune too! It was first released as part of my Blues Violin Course where it was one of my favorites, but I thought it might be fun to re-release it just as a single song lesson for sale in the School Store and
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