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50 Fiddle Solos
Seane Keane, popular fiddler of the Chieftans has selected, arranged, and recorded 50 superb jigs, reels and hornpipes. Songs include The Legacy, Molloy’s, Music in the Glen, Imelda Roland, Dunmore Lassies and many more favorites. With accompanying CD.
Product# AM970497
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60 Hot Licks for Country Fiddle
Great Texas fiddle artist Ed Marsh teaches 60 of the best country fiddle licks as heard on today's top-selling recordings. These licks will help make you intros, solos, and fills sound like the great nashville artists of today.
Product# LM-EM-1
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A Guide to American Fiddling
A Guide to American Fiddling exposes serious students of the violin to the technical nuances of traditional Old Time fiddling. In this book, violinist/fiddler Andrew Carlson provides a detailed technical analysis of Missouri-style fiddling, focusing primarily on the use of the bow.
Product# 99128BCD
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A Hundred Favorite Fiddle Tune
One hundred great fiddle solos and duets on reels, waltzes, jigs, hornpipes, two-steps, breakdowns, clogs, and schottisches by well-known Canadian fiddle Bill Guest. This book was compiled mainly for the violin student who is interested in learning to play old-time fiddle music.
Product# 93730
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Absolute Beginners Irish Fiddle
Paul McNevin, master teacher and musician, takes you step by step from holding the fiddle and bow to playing your first tunes. Complete with live stage performances featuring...Gavin Ralston - guitar, Gerry O'Connor - banjo. Paul McNevin is one of Ireland's finest fiddle teachers and performers.
Product# WM1445DVD
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Accompaniment Styles & Techniques for Dulcimer
Dennis Lee has developed this new tape of intermediate accompaniment techniques. Using the ionian tuning, Dennis teaches strum patterns and finger picking for the right hand, and chords for the left hand. You'll soon be able to accompany vocals and fiddle tunes and make up your own solos!
Product# 93-LA-60
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Advanced Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar with Wyatt Rice
In this 90-minute DVD, rhythm guitar master Wyatt Rice teaches you how to greatly expand your rhythm guitar abilities by teaching: crosspicking rhythm; syncopated rhythm; a variety of right hand patterns combined with left hand technique to develop a “groove” rhythm; unique bass runs; passing chords; chord substitutions; and chord inversions. Additionally, Wyatt is shown improvisationally accompanying various instruments (banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin) and then analyzing what he has done to provide the rhythmic foundation behind each instrument.
Product# FGM1006
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Alan Munde Professional Banjo #4 -  Fiddle Tune
Alan Munde has long been respected for his arrangements of fiddle tunes for the banjo. This tape features five of the most beautiful tunes from his recordings, Huckleberry Hornpipe, Smith's Reel, Molly Bloom, Lime Rock, and Paddy on the Turnpike. A 59-minute video
Product# AB-95-04
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American Fiddle Tunes for Mountain Dulcimer
This book contains melodious and energetic music arranged for the novice to experienced player in traditional keys, with musical notation so the selections can be played with other instruments. Accompaniment chords are included.
Product# 95527
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Autoharp Method In Four Easy Steps
Part One includes basic music theory, Part Two includes rhythm strumming instructions, melody chord changes, and lyrics to 18 well- known American folk songs and southern fiddle tunes in the keys of G, F, C major, and A modal.
Product# 99187BCD
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Basic Bluegrass Fiddle Video
This video teaches a variety of bluegrass fiddle licks and features many of the famous solos you have heard on your favorite bluegrass records. Ed also teaches you how to build your own solos and how to play in the upper positions so that you can sound like the professional players.
Product# FB-60
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Basic Bluegrass Fiddle Video
This video teaches a variety of bluegrass fiddle licks and features many of the famous solos you have heard on your favorite bluegrass records. Ed also teaches you how to build your own solos and how to play in the upper positions so that you can sound like the professional players.
Product# FB-60DVD
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Basic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar
Steve Kaufman is one of America's top bluegrass guitarists! His video covers the basics of back-up guitar, from the simplest two-chord song to Texas-style fiddle tunes. Players will master bass walks, the Lester Flatt 'G run,' altered chords, complex progressions and more.
Product# 641045
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Basic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar
Steve Kaufman is one of America's top bluegrass guitarists! His DVD covers the basics of back-up guitar, from the simplest two-chord song to Texas-style fiddle tunes. Players will master bass walks, the Lester Flatt 'G run,' altered chords, complex progressions and more.
Product# 641655
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Beginning Bluegrass Country Fiddle
If any instrument needs a VISUAL LESSON, it's the FIDDLE! Although it's a lot of fun, the fiddle is more difficult in the beginning than any other instrument. This lesson is designed to start you off on the right foot, with hints that will make your progress FAST and PAINLESS!
Product# 7035
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Bluegrass & Country Fiddle
Beginners will be playing double-stops, harmonies, riffs and exciting solos right from the first lesson. More than 35 great fiddle tunes are taught!
Product# 641577
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Bluegrass Country Guitar Jamming
New! Sit in and jam with a top notch bluegrass band. The definitive fun, practice and playing tool for all guitarists. Includes a full-length DVD, and two bonus CDs. The CDs include 13 songs, each recorded twice - once with a guitar solo, and once without (so that you can solo yourself over the backing tracks.) Notes on each song - including the key, to help center your improvisation - are included in the booklet.
Product# DV10054N
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Bluegrass Fiddle
Classically trained bluegrass virtuoso Richard Greene covers a fascinating array of musical ideas, exercises and instrumental examples on this one-of-a-kind fiddle lesson. 85-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES MUSIC • INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Product# 641773
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Bluegrass Fiddle Boot Camp - 2 DVD's
Here is a complete course in which Stacy Phillips unlocks the secrets of playing authentic bluegrass fiddle. These lessons are aimed mainly at basic players. Stacy provides in-depth, detailed advice on all aspects of fiddling, including bowing, slurs, double stops, slides, bowing patterns, etc. 2-DVD SET· LEVEL 2
Product# 641562
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
Product# JJ-60
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
Product# JJ-60DVD
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Bluegrass Jamming DVD
Pete Wernick has the perfect solution for novice bluegrass players who want to start jamming, or for any picker wanting to build experience and confidence. He has created a video jam session so that players of any level can play along with some experienced musicians and get ready for the real thing.
Product# 641558
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Bluegrass Lead Guitar
In this DVD, renowned guitarist Scott Nygaard guides you through different types of songs, and shows you how to combine these influences when creating a solos on a bluegrass tunes. Scott explains in detail the techniques needed to master the bluegrass lead guitar style and the ideas behind his arrangements. All are clearly illustrated in split-screen close-ups. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
Product# GW604DVD
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Bobby Hicks Teaches Fiddling, Volume 1
Inducted into the Fiddlers Hall of Fame in 2002, Grand Ole Opry performer for 50 years, considered part of the “first generation” of bluegrass musicians, Bobby Hicks is a master and a teacher. The techniques of his unique style are now available on this DVD for developing fiddlers who will learn what no other instructor can teach.
Product# BHDVD1
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Building Right Hand Technique
This book provides a master source for building agility, flexibility and speed while playing with a flatpick, as well as a repertoire source for the plectrum-style guitarist. The studies are designed to build reading ability and clarity of sound in a variety of styles, as well as agility in cross-picking and the playing of rapid linear passages.
Product# 93780
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