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Moonlight Drive Jam Track

By on March 19, 2016 in A minor, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, By Sight, C major, Gigger Level, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jamming 102, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Music Mechanics, New Jam lessons, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Style Studies

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

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Beethoven’s Oven

By on March 18, 2016 in A minor, Aeolian Mode, Artist Level, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, C major, Fiddler’s Tab, FItz-Hu-Ki, Gigger Level, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Harmonic Minor Scale, Ionian Mode, jamming 103, Jazz, Lesson List, Mixolydian Mode, Music History, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Viola

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

By on March 10, 2016 in A major, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, By Sight, C major, D major, G major, Gigger Level, iFiddle Magazine, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Major Scale, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH

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

By on February 22, 2016 in A minor, Aeolian Mode, By Key, By Scale, By Sight, Fiddler’s Tab, Gigger Level, Learning Methods, Lesson List, Music History, Note Name – Finger Number, progressive rock, Rock, Staff Notation, Viola

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

By on January 7, 2016 in Beginner Violin, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Learning Methods, Lesson List, Master Class, Music Philosophy, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Truck Talks

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

By on January 5, 2016 in A minor, B minor, Bb major, Blues, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, By Sight, C major, Cornerstone Styles, Country, D major, D minor, E minor, F major, Fiddle Jam, G major, G minor, iFiddle Magazine, Jammer Level, Jamming 101, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Master Class, Minor Pentatonic Scale, Rock

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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Rhythm Futur

By on September 12, 2015 in Artist Level, C major, G major, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Harmonic Minor Scale, Jamming 104, Jazz, Lesson List, Music History, Rock, Staff Notation, V7b9 scale

This is definitely one of the strangest tunes Django wrote.  I’m told it was the “B-side” of the “Nuage” vinyl record and is supposed to represent the horrors of war as opposed to Nuages cloud-like beauty.  My old Gyspy Jazz group “Babik” had both songs arranged for symphony orchestras to

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