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Bluegrass Fiddle Lessons BLUEGRASS FIDDLE LESSONS FIDDLE BASICS BLUEGRASS SONG SOLOING Care and Maintenance Closed Positions Tuning the Fiddle Your Love Is Like a Flower Bow Technique Bluegrass Licks in C Left-Hand Technique Bluegrass Licks in G Vibrato Train 45 OLD-TIME FIDDLE TUNES Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky Angeline the Baker Creating a Melody-Based Solo: “Uncloudy Day” June Apple Double-Stop Solos: Two Mac Wiseman Improvising on June Apple Songs Old Joe Clark CLASSIC BLUEGRASS FIDDLE SOLOS Whiskey Before Breakfast BLUEGRASS FIDDLE TUNES Flint Hill Special Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Road to Columbus Chubby Wise Solos on “Will You Be Cattle in the Cane Loving Another Man” Rebecca Pike County Breakdown Bill Cheatham Dark as the Night, Blue as the Day New Camptown Races Blue Ridge Cabin Home SCALES AND CHORDS “Rawhide” Stuart Duncan Solo Can’t You Hear Me Calling Scales and Chords, Part 1: Major Cry, Cry Darling Scales Highway of Sorrow Scales and Chords, Part 2: Chords G Chords BILL MONROE TUNES Chord Intensives, Part 1: A and D Lonesome Moonlight Waltz Chord Intensives, Part 2: G and C Big Sandy River Chord Intensives, Part 3: C and F Big Mon Seventh Chords Methodist Preacher Brown County Breakdown 1 BLUEGRASS FIDDLE LESSONS (Bill Monroe tunes, contd.) Jerusalem Ridge PRACTICE TECHNIQUES Gold Rush THE PHYSICS AND PHYSIOLOGY OF FIDDLING Uncle Pen FEELING THE PHYSICS OF FIDDLING Ashland Breakdown Panhandle Country Wheel Hoss MORE BLUEGRASS FIDDLE FAVES Big Sciota Golden Fiddle Waltz Golden Fiddle Waltz Arpeggios Cherokee Shuffle Sally Gooden Texas Style Sally Gooden Variations Part 1 Sally Gooden Variations Part 2 Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom Maiden’s Prayer Billy in the Lowground Paddy on the Turnpike "Paddy on the Turnpike" Solos Lonesome Fiddle Blues Bluegrass in the Backwoods Stony Point BLUEGRASS BACKUP Bluegrass Fiddle Backup Bobby Hicks Backup Licks Backup Fiddle in Bb Bluegrass Backup in E 2 .
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