Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond

Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler-Improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas exercises and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational techniques and sounds. Develop your fingerboard versatility andmaster harmonic and rhythmic ideas on the Violin.The CD has demonstration and play-along tracks performed by an all-star bluegrass band. You will learn to build solos using techniques such as: uncovering a melody's mostdefining notes and using them in a new context; reharmonizing chords and changing modes; breaking down rearranging and varying melodic and rhythmic cells; using position shifts string crossings and double stops; drawing fromtetrachords guide-tone lines and other constructs.

DVD 3-Move beyond the basics and get into the finer points of bluegrass flatpicking. You''ll be jamming with the best of them once you've mastered the tunes and techniques on this final DVD in this series.Steve Kaufman broadens your musical vocabulary by focusing on the essentials of good picking techniques. You'll learn to play six classic fiddle tunes - Liberty Salt Creek Blackberry Blossom Clarinet Polka Home Sweet Home and Ragtime Annie. Steve slows each one down highlighting the tricky areas and then playing it up-to-speed so you'll hear how it should sound in performance.You'll learn how to dress up your solos usingslides arpeggios bends accents and a variety of intros and endings. Detailed instruction in the intricacies of crosspicking will help give your playing more rhythmic appeal and style. Steve devotes much-needed attention to one of the most challenging areas for intermediate players - how to build speed - giving you invaluable advice on practicing testing yourself and perfecting left and right hand positions to help you accomplish your goals.