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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

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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

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Dust in the Wind – Kansas

Here’s the perennial favorite progressive rock classic from 1978 that features a famous violin solo in the middle (~ 1:30 in the original recording) by the band Kansas… who are not surprisingly, from Kansas, USA.  I believe Lawrence, Kansas claims them as their own, or so people said when I

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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

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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

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Back Door – Cajun Zydeco

Uptempo Cajun/Zydeco staple!  Basic 12 bar Blues form in the key of G.  EZ pentatonic-based melody leaves room for adding your own touches.  Check out the chart and Master Class video below for more info on that!  Have FUN! <<::>> Want to see all of this lesson?  Join us

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