Video Lessons for Old Time Fiddle
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New Video Lessons (2026):
Black Eyed Susie Elzic's Farewell Five Miles of Ellum Wood Half Irish Hell Broke Loose in Georgia Indian on a Stump Money in Both Pockets Moon Behind the Hill No Corn on Tygart Old Town Band Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains Rabbit in the Pea Patch Sweet Nell Rush and the Pepper Belle of Lexington Buffalo Gals Calico Billy in the Lowground Chips and Sauce Cluck Old Hen Going Down to Cairo Golden Ticket Green Willis Happy Hollow Henry King's Reel Hollow Poplar Jeff City Jenny Lynn Kiowa Special Lost Indian Martha Campbell Old Horse and Buggy Oyster Girl Porter's Reel Rachel Rye Straw Shippingport Smoke Above the Clouds Stambaugh's Waltz Shuckin the Brush The Fun's All Over Who's Gonna Talk to Dinah? |
The Sandbridge Old Time Fiddle Video Project
For the last few years, I have run a 3.5-day old-time fiddle retreat for intermediate level players in Sandbridge VA – The Sandbridge Old-Time Fiddle Retreat. We hold the workshop in a couple of beautiful oceanfront houses. We focus on a variety of bowing systems to create a solid groove, left-hand techniques (chording, slides, ornaments, 4th finger unisons etc), altered tunings, chord theory and more. For all the tunes, we prepare summary videos and provide written transcriptions with all bowings and notation of the left-hand techniques. I am pleased to now make many of these recordings available for everyone. The scope of material presented for each tune is comparable to several private lessons. Topics covered in most of the videos include the following:
See also Ken’s book Old-time Fiddle Style (Mel Bay, 2010) |