Lesson 5 of 25ViolinIntermediate

Blues: Knox County Blues (Performance)

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Chris Haigh plays through Knox County Blues on the fiddle — watch and play along using the interactive notation.

Part of the courseIntroduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle25 lessons (1h 30m)

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- 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)
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  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

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Part of the courseIntroduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle25 lessons (1h 30m)

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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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