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Alternative violin notation system that uses only the open string name and which finger is used on the string.

Red Haired Boy

By 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

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Stormy Monday Blues by T-Bone Walker

By on July 31, 2013 in Blues, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Cornerstone Styles, Fiddler’s Tab, G major, G minor, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Rock, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker Here’s a classic slow blues tune, that has become a “standard” for Blues bands around the world, written by T-Bone Walker in 1947 and covered by Eric Clapton, BB King, and countless others, the most famous of which is probably the Allman Brother’s Band on

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Wagon Wheel – Old Crow Medicine Show

By on July 14, 2013 in A major, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Country, Fiddler’s Tab, Folk Fiddle, Gigger Level, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Music Mechanics, Note Name – Finger Number, Old Time Fiddle, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Lesson description: I get a lot of requests from my private students for the fiddle intro to this popular song.  Originally written and recorded by the iconic Bob Dylan, the band “Old Crow Medicine Show” has had a hit with the song, and their’s is the version we will be

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Jammin’ by Bob Marley

By on June 30, 2013 in B minor, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Fiddler’s Tab, Isms, Skisms & Hybrids, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Lesson List, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Minor Scale, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Reggae violin, Rock, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Here’s an iconic Reggae rock tune by Bob Marley. I’ve kind of consolidated the melody into an EZ repeatable version for you here. I at first tried to transcribe Marley’s exact vocal performance (which was very time consuming as, in the loose Reggae way, he did not sing a single

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Tatering level 3 – chord tone double stops

By on June 4, 2013 in “Tater”, A-toodz Level 3, Artist Level, Bluegrass Fiddle, Blues, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, C major, Cajun-Zydeco, Cornerstone Styles, Country, Fiddler’s Tab, Folk Fiddle, G major, Gigger Level, Isms, Skisms & Hybrids, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Major Scale, Memphis Country Blues, MixoBluesian Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, Note Name – Finger Number, Old Time Fiddle, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Rock, Section/Title Pages, Staff Notation, Style Studies, Swamp Fiddle

Level 3 is a bit more tricky, technically speaking.  This involves including other notes from the chords as they pass in a progression… not just necessarily the tonic (name of chord) and it’s fifth anymore.  This means that you’ll have to learn some (simple don’t worry) Music Theory or Music

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Musical Priest – Irish/Celtic tune

By on May 27, 2013 in “Tater”, Aeolian Mode, B minor, BowTek, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Celtic-Irish-Fiddle, Cornerstone Styles, Country, Fiddle Tunes, Fiddler’s Tab, Gigger Level, Isms, Skisms & Hybrids, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Master Class, Minor Scale, Music Mechanics, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies, The Chop, VioTek

Being a metaphysically oriented guy, I kind of think of myself as always aspiring to be a musical priest of sorts.  A priest of jamming!  ;~)  This tune caught my eye, just for its title at first, but I’ve grow to love it.  My students seem to like it

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The Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band

By on March 27, 2013 in Aeolian Mode, Artist Level, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Cornerstone Styles, Country, Country Rock, D minor, Fiddler’s Tab, Gigger Level, Harmonic Minor Scale, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Minor Scale, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Rock, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Top 10 hit from 1979.  Fuses Country Rock and Rap in a story lyric about Satan challenging a fiddler in the state of Georgia (USA). *It used to be that as soon as one would pull out a fiddle in a bar, somebody would inevitably heckle you for “Orange Blossom

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