Fiddler's Three Violin Book 1

Playing in groups is good fun rewarding and essential training from the earliest stages. With this book individual pupils can get together for ensemble sessions with or without the teacher playing along. Compiled and edited by Peter Mountain  Fiddler's Three Violin Book 1 presents twenty-eight arrangements for Violin trio including: Old King Cole Amazing Grace Dance of the Hours William Tell Lavender Blue Yankee Doodle and many more! All three parts on the same pages.

A supplementary book of repertoire for three Violins (with Optional Viola Cello and Piano accompaniment as arranged and edited by Peter Mountain. This collection features twenty-eight arrangements including: Ash Grove Autumn (The Four Seasons) Greensleeves Kum Ba Yah Lincolnshire Poacher Minstrel Boy and more...

Unlock the secrets of improvising in traditional American fiddle styles with this Grammy-nominated stage and studio master. In only ten years as a professional musician, Jim Van Cleve has made quite a name for himself in bluegrass and acoustic music. He's spent time with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, saw his debut solo CD nominated for a Grammy and toured all over the world with Mountain Heart. He's become a sought-after Nashville session player and one of the most admired fiddlers in bluegrass. Jim covers many things on these 2 DVDs, but they really break into three sections. After some discussion about early learning experiences, AcuTab's John Lawless leads Jim through a discussion on improvising and building solos on a number of popular bluegrass standards. Two songs, Banks of The Ohio and Pretty Polly, are each played and demonstrated in 3 different keys. Before demonstrating the tunes, Jim breaks down the scale and common positions for each key in turn. He shows where to find the melody, and where adjacent double stops are located, as well as licks and phrases that suit each song. Attention is given to both playing a melody-based solo and what a fiddle can do to assist the band sound in accompaniment. He also carefully teaches four songs he has recorded - three of his own (Nature of the Beast, Devil's Courthouse and #6 Barn Dance) plus Bill Monroe's classic Wheel Hoss. After being slowly demonstrated lick-by-lick, they are each shown (fast and slow) in a split screen orientation. A printed booklet with standard notation for each of these songs is included. Two screen orientations are available for the split screen sections, based on whether the left or right hand is of greater interest. Simply switch between them using the Angle key. Over 4 hours of instructiona on 2 DVDs. / Violon (Traditionnel) / 240 pages / niveau : Débutant / 2-Dvd Set - Format: 7,5 X 5,25

Discovering Creative Improvisation For String Players. Par WALLER JULIANNA. Learn how to improvise and explore your creativity with this method developed by acclaimed fiddler, violinist, and instructor Julianna Waller. This book is divided into four Skill Sections and presented in workbook format. Each exercise includes basic and advanced examples as well as easy progress tracking. The unique improvisatory activities entice the imagination through imagery, observation, external stimuli, art projects, and memories! This multifaceted methodology is appropriate for novice and professional string players of the fiddle, violin, viola, and cello and is adaptable to many musical styles. A high-quality play-along recording is provided to support your practice and entice your imagination! The recording includes all examples from sections two and three, piano and full band accompaniment tracks for the I - IV - V7 - I chord progression in ten keys, and excerpts from two bluegrass compositions by the author. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Bluegrass and Country - Improvisation / Recueil / Violon

A lively collection of great Scottish Irish and Canadian tunes to add variety to your sets! The four books in the series 'The Ceilidh Collection for Fiddlers' have been best sellers in Scotland for more than 20 years with all ages and stages of fiddle players - a testimony to the great Scottish music contained in them. This volume contains some tunes which use more complex rhythms bowings and the keys up to three flats but most of the tunes are in A D or G. Another stunning collection of popular tunes for ceilidh dancing and solo performances. “The Ceilidh Collection has over eighty tunes arranged by type and hereis its real strength: if you’re playing at a ceilidh what you want is a set of tunes suited to the next dance and you want them quickly - mustn’t keep the dancers waiting. Well using this book you just turn to the page and away you go. It’s not just that the tunes are arranged by jigs reels waltzes or whatever but they are also arranged by dance.” “For anyone staring out in the business of playing for dancers the Ceilidh Collection is ideal. It has all the old favourites and a few newer ones for interest. It has nearly all the dances which are usually performed and a few titbits like the set for Burns Nigh and some airs. Nor is it just for fiddlers because everything is chorded. A thoroughly worthwhile publication.” - John Moar Orkney View Magazine