The Amazing Fiddle Styles of Rickie Simpkins - Favorite Fiddle Tunes
by Rickie Simpkins
60-Minute Video
(96-FUS-A) $29.95
Rickie Simpkins is one of the most in-demand fiddlers on the acoustic music scene today. He makes hundreds of appearances a year throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan with legendary guitarist Tony Rice and bluegrass supergroup Continental Divide. He also appears on recordings by many of today's top country music performers such as Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Rickie's world class fiddling combines hints of Appalachia, a healthy dose of bluegrass, emotional blues, a touch of gypsy jazz and sizzling hot licks to produce a truly unique and compelling personal style which is at once traditional and revolutionary.
Here is a rare opportunity to study with a modern fiddle master. In this new exciting video, Rickie teaches you some of his favorite fiddle tunes phrase by phrase. Special camera angles and two forms of notation (standard music and tablature) help you unlock the secrets of Rickie's great style. Included are arrangements of Dusty Miller, Maiden's Prayer, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Done Gone, Cattle in the Cane, Paddy on the Turnpike, Temperance Reel and more.
The Amazing Fiddle Styles of Rickie Simpkins - Bluegrass Solos and Backup
by Rickie Simpkins
60-Minute Video
(96-FUR-B) $29.95
In this new exciting video, Rickie teaches you solos and backup for some of his favorite bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes phrase by phrase. Special guest Chris Vandertuin sings while Rickie demonstrates "backing up", "padding", and "filling holes". Special camera angles and two forms of notation (standard music and tablature) help you unlock the secrets of Rickie's great style. Included are Forked Deer, Sitting on Top of the World, Nine Pound Hammer, All the Good Times are Past and Gone, Kiss Me Waltz, Banks of the Ohio, and more.
Today's Country Fiddle Method
Ed Marsh
If you want to play country fiddle in a band or just for the fun of it, this course will teach you all of the most important skills necessary to be a good fiddle player. Ed teaches intros, fills, backup styles and practical exercises for developing technical skills. He also teaches several complete songs, scale development and bowing techniques.
(CF-60) $29.95
Basic Bluegrass Fiddle
Ed Marsh
This video teaches a variety of bluegrass fiddle licks and also features many of the famous solos that you have heard on your favorite Bluegrass records. Ed also teaches you how to build your own solos and how to play in the upper positions so that you can sound like the professional players. Ed has consulted with many of today's top bluegrass artists and has brought many years of research to this video. It is just what you need to play really great Bluegrass Fiddle.
(FB-60) $29.95
All Time Fiddle Favorites
Ed Marsh
This video teaches you note-by-note how to play many of the all-time fiddle favorites. Ed Marsh teaches "The Orange Blossom Special," "Listen to the Mockingbird," and many famous waltzes and breakdowns including the great favorite "The Black Mountain Rag". The cost of just collecting this music would probably be more than the cost of this video. Ed also includes many examples of how to use "Hot Bowing" techniques, shuffle rhythms, cross-noting, and lightning fast runs, trills, and many other fiddle "ornaments." If you play the fiddle and want to put some real "Sizzle" into your playing, this video will put you in a much higher level of fiddle playing.
(FF-60) $29.95
Beginning Cajun Fiddle
Joe Carr
The infectious rhythm of cajun style fiddling is a favorite of musicians and fans alike. Now regardless of your previous experience, this exciting style can be yours. Beginning with basic scales in the popular keys of "D," "G," and "A," Joe Carr shows you the "cajun shuffle" bowing step by step and then teaches you some great sounding tunes to practice with. Folks will swear you're from Louisiana. Ayyyy-eeeeeeee!!
(93-CC-60) $29.95
"Hot" Fiddle Styles
Ed Marsh
If you like the hot fiddle styles of Johnny Gimbal, Mark O'Conner, Buddy Spicer and Stewart Duncan, you will enjoy this great new fiddle video with Ed Marsh. Ed takes you through several recorded solos and teaches the important scales, arpeggios, and techniques that are used in the music of George Strait, Ricky Skaggs, Merle Haggard, and Bob Wills. If you are ready to learn professional level material, you will have a great time with these solos, intros, and fills.
(EM-60) $29.95
Basic Violin Video
Ed Marsh
Of all the musical instruments, the violin requires the most exacting attention to detail in order to produce a good tone and play in perfect tuning. Ed Marsh has had numerous requests to produce a video that will provide the beginning violinist with a comprehensive technical development level of instruction. Ed provides careful and complete explanations of the proper left and right hand positions, time honored musical exercises, and compositions which will enable violinists to advance at their own pace. This video is the perfect addition to private or school music instruction and it can also be a great way to start yourself on the road to good violin playing. This video is a great way to prepare for Ed's Country Fiddle, Bluegrass Fiddle, or Hot Fiddle Styles videos.
(EV-60) $29.95
Reading Music Naturally for Fiddle
Lanny Fiel
Reading Music is the best tool for gaining access to a growing body of fiddle transcriptions. This 90-minute video with printed study guide teaches the reading of musical notation in a series of step-by-step, self paced lessons designed for the fiddler. Players of all levels can enhance their musicianship through this innovative learning approach. The lessons proceed gradually from simple to more complex. To bridge the gap between playing by ear and reading music, the fiddler listens to old-time, Texas-style, and Cajun fiddle tunes while watching them go by in musical notation. By the end of the course, he or she has enough skill in reading music to begin to fiddle the tunes. Lanny Fiel brings insights from his experience as a violinist with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and fiddle player with the West Texas band, "Yellowhouse". He Is also co-author with Frankie McWhorter of "Be Lazy With It"- The Bob Fills Fiddle Legacy, forthcoming from Texas Tech University Press.
(LFF-60) $29.95
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