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E minor Tabla Jam

By on April 22, 2016 in Beyond the Book, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, By Sight, E minor, Fiddle Jam, Jamming 101, Lesson List, Minor Pentatonic Scale, New Jam Lessons, Pop, Teacher Training

Here’s a new one I created in GarageBand for a student’s Call & Answer session recently.  It worked very well for her!  This particular student is a super-smart teen who is going to college early and has a very developed left/logical side of her brain… so much so that she

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Swamp Fiddle for iFiddle Magazine

By on April 13, 2016 in Artist Level, Blues, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Scale, Founder’s Blog, Gigger Level, iFiddle Magazine, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Master Class, Memphis Country Blues, Minor Pentatonic Scale, MixoBluesian Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, Swamp Fiddle

Here’s my April 2016 column for iFiddle Magazine called “Swamp Fiddle.”  What’s Swamp Fiddle you may ask?  It’s my favorite!  Watch the videos to find out! Promotional Video: Join our free Fiddle Jam Club to see the whole lesson!  It’s free!  Just click here.Here’s my April 2016

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Moonlight Drive Jam Track

By on March 19, 2016 in A minor, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, By Sight, C major, Gigger Level, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Music Mechanics, New Jam lessons, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Style Studies

I first created this jam-along track for inclusion in a lesson I did for iFiddle Magazine on the Magic of Blues Scales.  It is “in-the-style-of” the great electric violin icon Jean Luc Ponty and a rough take-off of the tune “Sunset Drive” on his “Taste for Passion” album (with

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Beethoven’s Oven

By on March 18, 2016 in A minor, Aeolian Mode, Artist Level, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, C major, Fiddler’s Tab, FItz-Hu-Ki, Gigger Level, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Harmonic Minor Scale, Ionian Mode, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Mixolydian Mode, Music History, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Viola

Here’s a tune that I’ve become a bit enamored with lately.  It is the first section of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, the 2nd Movement.  I of course, had heard it many times before, but it didn’t really get on my radar for our uses here until hearing a Bashar (the spirit

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Truck Talk – Beginner Lesson Approaches

By on January 7, 2016 in Beginner Violin, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Learning Methods, Lesson List, Master Class, Music Philosophy, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Truck Talks

Happy New Year 2016!  I’m thinking on some new approaches to reaching more people who can benefit from what I have to offer.  Though absolute beginner lessons was something I consciously avoided in the early development of the Fiddle Jam Institute, with recent successes of some of my beginner violin

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iFiddle Blues Scale Magic

By on January 5, 2016 in A minor, B minor, Bb major, Blues, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, By Sight, C major, Cornerstone Styles, Country, D major, D minor, E minor, F major, Fiddle Jam, G major, G minor, iFiddle Magazine, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Master Class, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Rock

In partnership with iFiddle Magazine, I’ve produced this lesson on two different, two-finger, two-string fingerboard patterns (I call “EZ-Zones”) that allow you to play 10 different Pentatonic scales very easily.  Pentatonics are great for getting started with anything from creatively spicing up your fiddle tunes, to outright improvisation in

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