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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Learning by first understanding.
Moonlight Drive Jam Track
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
Beethoven’s Oven
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
iFiddle Mag Chord Basics Lesson
Here’s a lesson provided for iFiddleMag.com about understanding chord basics and ways to implement them on your fiddle without having to think about them too hard. Enjoy! Want to see the full lesson? Find out about our membership options by clicking here. Here’s a lesson provided for iFiddleMag.com about
Truck Talk – Beginner Lesson Approaches
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
iFiddle Blues Scale Magic
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
Cool Grapelli ii-V Trick
As a more advanced Master Class Lesson, here’s a cool trick that Stephane Grappelli often did that adds an air of sophistication to any dominant chord. I’ve applied it as an exercise for you, over a Rhythm Changes tune called Stompin’ at Decca by Django Reinhardt & Stephane from 1938.