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  • Home
  • Shop
  • About
    • Reviews
    • Brad and Ken
    • Ken and Elke
  • WINTER SOLSTICE CONCERT
  • Backyard house concert: 2025 Johnny and The Yooahoos
  • Thanksgiving Concert
  • Schedule
  • Baltimore Old Time Jam
  • Ken & Brad Kolodner
  • Ken Kolodner & Mary Lynn Michal
  • Lessons & Workshops
    • Hammered Dulcimer
    • Fiddle Lessons
    • Distance Lessons
    • Workshops
    • School Programs
  • Dulcimer Video Lessons
  • Fiddle Video Lessons
  • Sandbridge Hammered Dulcimer Retreat
  • Watkins Glen Hammered Dulcimer Retreat
  • Sandfiddlers Old Time Fiddle Retreat
  • Weddings
  • Contact
  • Baltimore Old Time Music Festival

Video Lessons for Old Time Fiddle

Video Lessons:
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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:
  • 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) 

Technical Details

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