This class is for students who feel comfortable playing a variety of basic fiddle tunes in a jam or on stage. Style/tunes taught: Canadian and American Old-time, Scottish and Bluegrass. Our objectives will be to help you expand your repertoire of standard fiddle tunes AND attempt a few challenge tunes. The repertoire of standard tunes […]
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Tunes will begin on a level comparable to Arkansas Traveler, Me & My Fiddle, Ramona Waltz, Dreamers Waltz, and Pig Ankle Rag. In addition to some great new tunes, we’ll also be learning more about bowing, triplets, positions, double stops, and adding “pizzazz” to your playing. We’ll also touch on basic theory to help you […]
Student should have a basic understanding of common fiddle tunes; like or similar to Tennessee Waltz, Swallowtail Jig, and Red Wing. I teach with notes, tab, and by ear. I will teach some really fun tunes that can be mastered quickly and played at jams, as well as tunes that will require a bit more […]
This class we will be covering some more basic fiddle tunes. I will give tips on how to make playing fiddle more fun and a little bit of fiddle technique. I want to help you become an amazing sounding fiddler. My materials will be tablature.
Hey everyone, let’s play some awesome tunes and make friends! I will be covering proper technique when playing and some fun fiddle tunes. I will also be giving tips on how to make practicing at home fun. My materials will be tablature.
Fiddlers with considerable experience and familiar with many jam tunes will practice techniques for playing tunes with less common chords, more advanced bowing patterns, double stops, 2nd or 3rd position, double shuffle or variations on the melodies. Sound recordings will be downloadable and transcriptions will be handed out, but not used in class. I’ll show […]
Students will learn tunes in a variety of keys and styles, reviewing scales and arpeggios based on the chord structure for each. Sound recordings with backup will be available, as well as transcribed sheet music. The written music won’t be used in class, since this is a valuable opportunity to practice learning “by ear”, […]
I like to teach tunes that highlight techniques that need to be learned. Playing on your finger tips, right arm levels, correct left and right hand positions are needed to make tunes sound the best they can. I will also cover tips on how to practice to get the most out of time spent. Tunes will […]
Let’s learn to LOVE the fiddle! We will cover correct right and left hand posture to get the most tone we can out of those little fiddles. Simple tunes will be taught as stepping stones to bigger and better tunes. Tunes will be given in tablature. A recording of tunes taught will also be given […]
This class is for students who feel comfortable playing a variety of basic fiddle tunes in a jam or on stage. Style/tunes taught: Canadian and American Old-time, Scottish and Bluegrass. Our objectives will be to help you expand your repertoire of standard fiddle tunes AND attempt a few challenge tunes. The repertoire of standard tunes […]
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