Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler

Improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas, exercises, and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational techniques and sounds. Develop your fingerboard versatility, and master harmonic and rhythmic ideas on the violin. The CD has demonstration and play-along tracks, performed by an all-star bluegrass band. You will learn to build solos using techniques such as: uncovering a melody's most defining notes, and using them in a new context; reharmonizing chords and changing modes; breaking down, rearranging and varying melodic and rhythmic cells; using position shifts, string crossings and double stops; drawing from tetrachords, guide-tone lines, and other constructs.

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Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler

Improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas, exercises, and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational techniques and sounds. Develop your fingerboard versatility, and master harmonic and rhythmic ideas on the violin. The CD has demonstration and play-along tracks, performed by an all-star bluegrass band. You will learn to build solos using techniques such as: uncovering a melody's most defining notes, and using them in a new context; reharmonizing chords and changing modes; breaking down, rearranging and varying melodic and rhythmic cells; using position shifts, string crossings and double stops; drawing from tetrachords, guide-tone lines, and other constructs.

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Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler

Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler

by Matt Glaser
Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler

Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler

by Matt Glaser

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Improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas, exercises, and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational techniques and sounds. Develop your fingerboard versatility, and master harmonic and rhythmic ideas on the violin. The CD has demonstration and play-along tracks, performed by an all-star bluegrass band. You will learn to build solos using techniques such as: uncovering a melody's most defining notes, and using them in a new context; reharmonizing chords and changing modes; breaking down, rearranging and varying melodic and rhythmic cells; using position shifts, string crossings and double stops; drawing from tetrachords, guide-tone lines, and other constructs.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780876391082
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 04/01/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 50
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 11.80(h) x 0.40(d)
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