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Notation alternative that simply tells the note name and the typical 1st position finger number.

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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Sweet Georgia Brown

By on March 24, 2013 in Artist Level, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Knowledge, Cornerstone Styles, Fiddler’s Tab, G major, Gigger Level, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music History, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Classic Jazz tune from 1925 that is covered in all kinds of jazz settings from ragtime to modern jazz & lounge groups.  I will especially focus on this song in the Gypsy Jazz style. Here’s the melody and chord chart to get us started.  There have been many, many interpretations

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Oh When the Saints Go Marching In

By on March 16, 2013 in Beginner Violin, By Ear, By Sight, Fiddler’s Tab, Folk Fiddle, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Lesson List, Music History, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

A Spiritual typically considered to be associated with New Orleans, LA culture.  The prayerful lyric of: “Oh Lord, I wanna be in that ‘number’ (dance, song), when the saints go marching in (to heaven on the Christian religion’s ‘judgement day’).”  Usually associated with the early jazz music called “Dixieland.”  E-Z

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It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing)

By on March 14, 2013 in Artist Level, Bb major, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, Fiddler’s Tab, G minor, Gigger Level, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Harmonic Minor Scale, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Scale, Master Class, Music Mechanics, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Famous song, written in 1931 by Duke Ellington (music) and Irving Mills (lyrics).  Recorded by too many to mention here.  Often played in the gypsy jazz style. Sounds fun and easy with it’s “do wop” sing-along anthem, but can actually be rather difficult to solo over.  I’ll attempt, in typical

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Gypsy Sound – Anatomy

By on March 11, 2013 in A minor, By Ear, By Knowledge, By Sight, D minor, E minor, Fiddler’s Tab, G minor, Gigger Level, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Harmonic Minor Scale, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Jazz, Lesson List, Music History, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

 The anatomy of the gypsy sound is characterized by the Harmonic Minor Scale.  Classically trained violinists will probably already know this scale well, but if you are a fiddler, or just used to jamming to rock and blues based music, as I myself was at one time, then this

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