I stumbled onto this Gamalon footage from 1988 today. That’s me on a home-made violin I called EVI (minus the gray hair we see today!). I had probably been in the band about a year at this point, but you can readily hear how developed our sound was even in
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Dust in the Wind – Kansas
By fiddlejamman 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