Bluegrass: Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms (Chubby Wise solo)
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Chris HaighChris Haigh teaches the Chubby Wise fiddle solo on 'Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms', breaking down the position shifts and fingerings slowly before taking it up to tempo with the backing.
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What's in the course
22 lessons (1h 51m) · 1 free
01. Old time vs Bluegrass
Free lesson11:17
02. Bluegrass: melody and fills
7:52
03. Bluegrass: Kickoffs and solos
7:28
04. Bluegrass: Chubby Wise Licks
5:25
05. Bluegrass: Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms (Chubby Wise solo)
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06. Bluegrass: Benny Martin, Kenny Baker licks
5:50
07. Bluegrass: Lost Indian (performance)
0:40
Lesson transcript
Music Lesson
I'll go through this slowly and then we'll do it up to tempo with the backing.
Lesson Breakdown
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Kick Off
- First finger over with an A above it.
- Second finger with an A above it.
- Fourth finger with an A above it.
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Transition to Third Position
- Moving into third position, start with the first of a second.
- Second finger with an E above it.
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G Natural
- We have a G natural:
- First finger over, with a little hammer on.
- This signifies the A7.
- Transitioning from first over third into third position.
- We have a G natural:
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Finger Placement
- Leave the first finger where it is and bring your third finger down.
- Staying in third position, move two over and two down to first position.
Practice Phrase
Let me give you that last phrase again:
1, 2, 3, 4.
Okay, try that a few times, and let's see if we can do it up to tempo with the backing.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
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.
