Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle
TUTOR BOOK AND ONLINE VIDEO COURSE
This book and video course teaches the techniques of all the main branches of country fiddle. It brings structure, clarity, and purpose to your learning, and allows you to fluidly play through a country song, differentiating between the intro, the backing, the fills on verse and chorus, the fiddle solo, and the outro, all in a style appropriate to the type of song.
Old time, early string band music, western swing, bluegrass, honky tonk, Cajun and commercial country are all covered here. You will also learn about specific players from the history of country, so that you can absorb and master the techniques which they pioneered.
The style of the book is practical and down-to earth, but also entertaining, spiced with anecdotes from the many colourful characters we meet along the way, be they heroes or villains!
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Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle is available either as a book (published by Schott Music), or a video course by MusicGurus. Buy it HERE
The book is 132 pages long, and comes with downloadable audio files. It is both a tutor book (with many tune examples and technique exerscises), and an entertaining story of the history of Country Music.
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The MusicGurus video course has 47 lessons (3hrs 22 mins), and includes sheet music and mp3 backing tracks
Buy it HERE
"Entertaining and fascinating" history of the beginnings of Country and bluegrass music! Chris Haigh has a great writing style which keeps the pages turning! I found myself cackling at some of the descriptions ..."tasty 2 over 4 double stops” ! But also included are examples of techniques and styles and nice representations of the music— complete arrangements or snippets of techniques. But wait!!! There’s more!!!!
Also included is the fabulous audio material that can be easily downloaded to your phone. There is much more— helps for improvising, shuffles, chops, fills....chord sequences. So as you can see— you’ll have the whole ball of wax with this purchase— and have a great time too!
-Pam, Amazon review
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