Description: A Geoff Perry original ballad that first appeared on Babik’s American Gypsy CD. This tune is one of those that seemed to write itself. Improvising over this one is more advanced (see below). Jamming: Over all this song uses the G harmonic minor scale with a few
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Fully Diminished 7th Studies
By fiddlejamman on March 24, 2013 in Artist Level, By Knowledge, By Scale, Cornerstone Styles, Diminished Scale, Gypsy Jazz Violin, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Style Studies
The fully diminished 7th chord is an oddity in music. It sort of sounds like an oddity too. Made completely out of minor 3rd intervals (1 & 1/2 steps), it exactly divides the octave into four equal parts, so that any one of the notes could be called and used
Sweet Georgia Brown
By fiddlejamman 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
Reverse Engineer Mandolin Strumming to Fiddle
By fiddlejamman on March 21, 2013 in By Sight, Lesson List, Mandolin for the violinist, Non-violin/fiddle
Learn some techniques on how to reverse engineer mandolin strumming and apply it to your fiddle for some ukelele-type sounds. Part 1: video… View more of this content! Check out our two options of becoming an officially registered FJI member! <<::>> Learn some techniques on how to reverse engineer
Fiddler’s Tab
By fiddlejamman on March 18, 2013 in Bluegrass Fiddle, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Country, Fiddle Tunes, Fiddler’s Tab, Folk Fiddle, Lesson List, Music Mechanics, Old Time Fiddle, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Section/Title Pages, Style Studies, Teacher Training
”Fiddler’s Tab” (FT) is a notation system for violinists that is popular with non-staff reading fiddler’s and often used by teachers with their beginning students. I think I myself was taught this system for the first couple of months of my playing back when I was 9 years old. Simple
G Jam
By fiddlejamman on March 18, 2013 in Beyond the Book, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Cornerstone Styles, Fiddle Jam, Gigger Level, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Lesson List, New Jam lessons, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Rock, Roots Rock, Style Studies
Here’s a new jam lesson I put together after the Fiddle Jam Book came out. Enjoy. G Jam performance video: check out what can be done with this track! Want to learn how to jam like this? Click here for more info on our free Fiddle Jam Club membership and
Oh When the Saints Go Marching In
By fiddlejamman 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