Here’s a pop tune by request of a 6 year old Simone, from the group “Gorillaz.” I’m not personally sure what the video has to do with the tune exactly, other than a couple of lyric references, but with 13 million + views, who am I to judge! I include
Archive | By Feeling
Learning by the feeling it gives you.
Music Book Reviews
By fiddlejamman on September 17, 2013 in By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, By Topic, Fiddler’s Tab, Lesson List, List, Music Essentials, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Reviews, Section/Title Pages, Staff Notation
I’ll put links to info and reviews of music study books I think are worthy of you checking them out here: C.A.D. (Creative Ability Development) book and method review including a translation excerpt of a letter written by Mozart about how he created! Interesting. Essential Elements – method review Technique
Red Haired Boy
By fiddlejamman on September 14, 2013 in A major, Artist Level, Bluegrass Fiddle, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Celtic-Irish-Fiddle, Cornerstone Styles, Fiddle Tunes, Fiddler’s Tab, Folk Fiddle, Gigger Level, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Master Class, MixoBluesian Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies
Here’s I cool tune that I have become rather enamored with lately. The A section and the B sections are almost identical… only one line different from each other, so once you learn the A section you’ll practically have the whole tune down! Below are 3 versions, EZ to more
Modes
By fiddlejamman on September 2, 2013 in Aeolian Mode, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Dorian Mode, Gigger Level, Ionian Mode, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Locrian Mode, Lydian Mode, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Phrygian Mode
Modes sound like a scary topic to many, but are not as hard to understand and apply as they seem. I’ll start out with a “cheat sheet” list of the 7 classic modes here, and explain them further with exercises and lessons on ways to assimilate them into your musical
Tri-Tone Substitutions
By fiddlejamman on August 31, 2013 in Artist Level, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Lesson List, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH
Tri-Tone Substitutions… huh? What are they? Sounds like pretty geek-y stuff! …maybe it is a little bit, but it is not as hard or complicated as it sounds… and can make your chord progressions hipper!… Non-members: Want to learn more about this? Click here for more info on our free
Bone Bossa by G. F. Perry
By fiddlejamman on August 30, 2013 in Artist Level, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, C major, Cornerstone Styles, Gigger Level, jamming 103, Jamming 104, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Scale, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies
Here’s a tune in the Bossa Nova style that Babik played live for a short time. I was thinking of Trombone in the intro when I wrote it… hence the title. Play the intro double stops near the frog with a down up up bowing pattern. Improv: There are not
Creative Ability Development (C.A.D.) book report
By fiddlejamman on August 18, 2013 in Bulletin Board, By Ear, By Feeling, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Lesson List, Music History, Music Philosophy, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Reviews, Teacher Training, Wit & Wisdom
The book that kick-started this teaching-folks-how-to-jam-stuff for me: Creative Ability Development (C.A.D.) by Alice Kay Kanack. Review & report below. Alice was a friend of my sister’s. They both went to the world famous Eastman School of Music together. Alice’s family also owns a prestigious violin shop in the Rochester,