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Learning A Fiddle Tune – Part 5

Dan Miller has presented a series of lessons outlining an approach to learning how to play fiddle tunes, using the tune “Liberty” as an example. This is the final video in that five-part series where he discussed a couple of ways to embellish the B part of “Liberty.”

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O Come All Ye Fiddlers

For the holiday season, Mike Mitchell provides us with an arrangement of “O Come All Ye Fiddlers.”

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Playing Over the Flat 7 Chord

In previous videos we have addressed the various scales that you can use when playing over chords that are diatonic to the key, especially the I, IV, and V chords. But, what do you do when the Flat 7 chord shows up, as it does in fiddle tunes like “Salt Creek” and “Red Haired Boy.”…

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Moving Into Your Solo

In this video Brad Davis discusses and demonstrates how to use a walk up to one of the notes of the first chord of a song to help launch your solo.

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Two Bar Hot Licks in G, C & D for Fiddle

In the October 2023 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine, we featured fiddler Justin Branum and his fiddle instruction website. So that you can get a feel for the kind of lessons Justin provides on his site, we are providing a sample lesson where Justin teaches two-bar licks that can be played over the G, C…

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