Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle
with Chris Haigh
Intermediate
47 lessons (3h 22m)
Sheet music included
Backing tracks included
Mobile, Tablet + Desktop
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Course Trailer
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Sample Lesson
Free
- Introduction
- Course Welcome
- 1. The Good Old Days
- Drones: basic exercises and Arkansas Traveller
- Nashville shuffle and Old Joe Clark
- Blues: Knox County Blues (Lesson)
- Blues: Knox County Blues (Performance)
- Syncopation: Pig Ankle Rag (Lesson)
- Syncopation: Pig Ankle Rag (Performance)
- 2. The Beginning of Country Music
- The Georgia Shuffle
- Whiskey Before Breakfast (Performance)
- Double stops Wednesday Night Waltz
- Wednesday Night Waltz (Performance)
- More double stops: Cheatem County Breakdown
- Cheatem County Breakdown (Performance)
- Singing Cowboys: Yellow Rose of Texas
- Yellow Rose of Texas (Performance)
- 3. Western Swing
- Western Swing: Beaumont Rag
- Beaumont Rag (Performance)
- Bob Wills - Red River Valley
- Red River Valley (Performance)
- Twin Fiddling: scale, Goodbye Liza Jane
- Western Swing soloing
- Goodbye Liza Jane (solo performance)
- Western Swing licks
- Girl I Left Behind Me (solo walkthrough)
- Girl I Left Behind Me (solo performance)
- 4. Bluegrass (1)
- Old time vs Bluegrass
- Bluegrass: melody and fills
- Bluegrass: Kickoffs and solos
- Bluegrass: Chubby Wise Licks
- Bluegrass: Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms (Chubby Wise solo)
- Bluegrass: Benny Martin, Kenny Baker licks
- Bluegrass: Lost Indian (performance)
- 5. Bluegrass (2)
- Bluegrass: Vassar Clements 1
- Bluegrass: Vassar Clements 2
- Bluegrass: the Chop
- Bluegrass: Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (chops performance)
- 6. Commercial Country in the 1950s
- Honky Tonk: Banks of the Ohio
- Honky Tonk: Banks of The Ohio - Intro and Outro
- Honky Tonk: Banks of the Ohio (performance)
- Honky Tonk: Walking Fiddle
- Honky Tonk: solo
- Honky Tonk: Nashville Shuffle
- Mexican Trumpets
- 7. Contemporary Country
- Cajun meets Country
- The Double Shuffle
- Fiddle Capo
- Contemporary Country; Both Kinds of Music
Lesson plan (3h 22m)
Chris Haigh is a professional violinist based in the UK. He's played with the likes of Alison Moyet, Bob Geldof and Morcheeba. He's also a world-renowned fiddle expert and educator.
This interactive video course is based on the book Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle published by Schott Music and teaches the techniques of all the main branches of country and bluegrass fiddle. It will bring structure, clarity and purpose to your learning, and help you to fluidly play through a country song, differentiating between the intro, the backing, the fills on verse and chorus, the fiddle solo, and the outro, all in a style appropriate to the type of song.
Included with this course are:
- 31 detailed lessons + performances
- Integrated sheet music examples
- PDF downloads for all pieces
- MP3 backing tracks
Styles covered include Old time, early string band music, western swing, bluegrass, honky tonk, Cajun and commercial country. You will learn how to play like specific players from the history of country, such as Vassar Clements, Bob Wills and Chubby Wise, so that you can absorb and master the techniques which they pioneered.
You will also learn fundamental techniques like drones, double stops, "the chop", fiddle capo and many more.
The course is practical and fun, spiced with anecdotes from the many colourful characters we meet along the trail, be they heroes or villains! There are loads of songs to learn and backing tracks for you to practice with and the videos come complete with figures and notation as well as downloadable PDFs.
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