Bluegrass & Modern Country Fiddle

Name: Bluegrass & Modern Country Fiddle
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Duration1h 51m

Modules22

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (1h 51m)

About this course

Chris Haigh is a fiddle player and educator covering rock, country, bluegrass and jazz. Full bio on Chris's artist page.

This is Part 2 of Exploring Country & Bluegrass Fiddle. Two dedicated sections cover bluegrass fiddle technique and repertoire, followed by commercial country in the 1950s (the Nashville sound era) and contemporary country fiddle.

By the end you'll handle bluegrass tempos and idioms, understand the 1950s shift in country production, and play in a contemporary country style suitable for modern recordings.

Who it's for

Fiddlers who completed Introduction to Country & Bluegrass
Players ready to handle bluegrass tempos and idioms
Returning fiddlers transitioning into modern country styles

What you'll learn

Play bluegrass fiddle at up-tempo speeds with clean intonation
Apply 1950s Nashville-sound idioms to recording-style playing
Adopt contemporary country fiddle styles

What you'll need

A violin and a willingness to read notation
Comfort with bowing at faster tempos
A few minutes most days to practise

Explore the series · Exploring Country & Bluegrass Fiddle

01
Introduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle
02
Bluegrass & Modern Country Fiddle
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Meet the Guru

Chris Haigh

Chris Haigh has been a professional fiddle player for 25 years, with experience covering many different genres. He has played on over 75 albums, working with artists including Alison Moyet, Bob Geldof, All About Eve, Michael Ball, David Soul, Oumou Sangare, The Quireboys, Riverdance, Morcheeba, James Galway and Steps.

He has played swing jazz with The Kimbara Brothers, Diz Disley, Le Jazz, The Hot Club of London, and the Quecumbar Allstars, and leads a 7-piece Soviet swing band, The Kremlinaires.

Chris gives lessons and workshops on jazz violin technique and has taught jazz violin at Middlesex, Brunel and Newcastle universities and Truro College. His writing credits include nine fiddle books, among them The Fiddle Handbook.

He also runs Fiddling Around (fiddlingaround.co.uk), probably the most comprehensive and widely visited source of fiddle information on the web.

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Schott Music

Founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770, Schott Music is one of Europe's oldest and largest music publishers, with a catalogue of more than 30,000 titles. Over its 250-year history Schott has issued first editions of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, championed 20th-century voices from Hindemith and Schoenberg to Ligeti and Henze, and today publishes sheet music, books and educational materials from offices in Mainz, London, New York, Tokyo and beyond.

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