Video Lessons for Old Time Fiddle

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Video Lessons Available

Buffalo Gals
Chips and Sauce
​Cluck Old Hen
Going Down to Cairo
Happy Hollow
Henry King's Reel
Kiowa Special
​Lost Indian
Porter's Reel
​Rachel
Shippingport
Stambaugh's Waltz
​Shuckin the Brush
The Fun's All Over

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:

• Basic melody broken down phrase by phrase
• Bowings for all phrases
• Bowing ideas include 3-1 bowing, Nashville shuffle, bow pulses, ghost bows, bow rocks
• Rationale for bowing 
• Altered tunings include ADAE, ADAD, AEAE, AEAC#
• Description of all chording
• Left-hand techniques
• Discussion of the chord progression 
• Variations 
• Written transcriptions with bowings and chords
• Practice tracks along with a play-through of the full tune

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See also Ken’s book Old-time Fiddle Style  (Mel Bay, 2010)