Introduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle

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Introduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle

Name: Introduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle
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Duration1h 30m

Modules25

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (1h 30m)

- 01. Course Welcome
  0:59
- 01. Drones: basic exercises and Arkansas Traveller
  5:19
- 02. Nashville shuffle and Old Joe Clark
  Free lesson
  5:23
- 03. Blues: Knox County Blues (Lesson)
  4:44
- 04. Blues: Knox County Blues (Performance)
  0:26
- 05. Syncopation: Pig Ankle Rag (Lesson)
  6:45
- 06. Syncopation: Pig Ankle Rag (Performance)
  1:22
- 01. The Georgia Shuffle
  5:42
- 02. Whiskey Before Breakfast (Performance)
  0:44
- 03. Double stops Wednesday Night Waltz
  8:34
- 04. Wednesday Night Waltz (Performance)
  0:54
- 05. More double stops: Cheatem County Breakdown
  4:06
- 06. Cheatem County Breakdown (Performance)
  0:44
- 07. Singing Cowboys: Yellow Rose of Texas
  5:34
- 08. Yellow Rose of Texas (Performance)
  0:22
- 01. Western Swing: Beaumont Rag
  9:50
- 02. Beaumont Rag (Performance)
  1:12
- 03. Bob Wills - Red River Valley
  5:25
- 04. Red River Valley (Performance)
  0:33
- 05. Twin Fiddling: scale, Goodbye Liza Jane
  3:35
- 06. Western Swing soloing
  5:06
- 07. Goodbye Liza Jane (solo performance)
  1:17
- 08. Western Swing licks
  9:19
- 09. Girl I Left Behind Me (solo walkthrough)
  2:33
- 10. Girl I Left Behind Me (solo performance)
  0:28

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 1 of Exploring Country & Bluegrass Fiddle. You'll trace the historical thread from "the good old days" of old-time fiddle through the beginning of commercial country music to western swing - each era with its own bowing, ornamentation and repertoire.

By the end you'll have an authentic sense of country fiddle's roots and a working repertoire across three of the most foundational American fiddle traditions. Part 2 takes the story on into bluegrass and modern country.

Who it's for

Classical or folk violinists curious about American fiddle styles
Returning fiddlers wanting structure across country traditions
Self-taught players ready to study specific fiddle eras

What you'll learn

Play old-time fiddle tunes with idiomatic bowing
Apply early country music vocabulary across standard repertoire
Use western swing rhythms and harmony in your fiddle playing

What you'll need

A violin and a willingness to read notation
Comfort with basic bowing and intonation
A few minutes most days to practise

Explore the series · Exploring Country & Bluegrass Fiddle

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Introduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle
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Bluegrass & Modern Country Fiddle

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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