Bluegrass Fiddle Lessons

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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