Fiddle with Darol Anger
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Course Structure Fiddle with Darol Anger
Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!
Master fiddle with legendary Grammy nominee Darol Anger. Over 270 lessons from beginner bowing basics through advanced soloing techniques for bluegrass, swing, jazz, blues, 5-string fiddle, and more.
Beginner Fiddle
Learn fiddle basics with bowing, posture, simple scales, and beginner-friendly tunes. Explore early fiddle skills through fun tunes, bowing practice, and steady technique. Build confidence with clear bowing, simple melodies, and foundational fiddle technique.
Intermediate Fiddle
Explore shuffles, double stops, more tunes, and solo breaks to strengthen your fiddle skills. Learn blues scales, vibrato, and essential licks to grow your expressive fiddle style. Build intermediate technique with shuffles, position work, and classic fiddle breaks.
Advanced Fiddle
Explore advanced improvisation, diminished chords, and classic tunes like “Grey Eagle.” Develop your skills with chord substitutions, creative phrasing, long-form solos, and refined techniques. Build fluency with advanced sequences, creative phrasing, and expressive arrangements.
Jazz & Blues Fiddle
Explore jazz theory, bebop licks, and blues improvisation through classic swing tunes. Discover jazz and blues fiddle using scales, arpeggios, and gypsy jazz-style melodies. Build jazz fluency with arpeggios, chord tones, and songs like “Minor Swing” and “Bebop Blues.”
5-String Fiddle
Waltzes
30 Day Challenge
About Fiddle with Darol Anger
Darol Anger has created a comprehensive video library that includes hundreds of fiddle lessons, exclusive performances, and interviews. Students have unlimited access to all these online fiddle lessons plus tabs, backing tracks, and other study materials. What ultimately sets these online lessons apart from other offerings however, is the ability to submit a video for personalized feedback using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange® learning platform. Darol Anger reviews each submission and records a video response, offering tips about how to improve. All students can access Darol’s Video Exchange Archive, which is expanding all the time and may contain the key to unlock your playing.
About Darol Anger
Darol Anger has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his founding of numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as his Republic Of Strings, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet, Montreux, the Duo, and numerous other ensembles. Today Darol can be heard on NPR's "Car Talk" theme every week along with Earl Scruggs, David Grisman and Tony Rice. Since 1977 he has recorded and produced scores of important recordings, and has received numerous composers' residencies and grants. A MacDowell and UCross Fellow, he is a featured soloist on dozens of recordings and motion picture soundtracks. Anger is also committed to string education and helped found the String Resource Board for the International Jazz Educators Association. He is a contributing editor for Strings Magazine and has given string clinics all over the world at camps, festivals and universities.
What students are saying!
Studying with Darol Anger on Artistworks is the best online course for learning fiddle
I've tried out many online courses for learning fiddle. Nothing beats Artistworks with Darol Anger for several reasons: 1. Video exchanges with Darol. They ability to upload a vide...
Darol is A Great Fiddle Teacher!
I have been learning with Darol for a number of years now on ArtistWorks and really appreciate the access this has given me to his first class expertise and musicianship on fiddle!...
Darol Anger Fiddle
His beginner section is really for an intermediate fiddle player. His lessons get real challenging real fast. If he focused on easier tunes and went into more detail it would be ...
Outstanding content
My only quibble is that I can’t renew manually and add the new time period to the existing time on my account. I have to either let the subscription expire or renew early and lose ...
Not your average fiddle teacher
Darol is an inspiring teacher and a great guy; a refreshing change from the classical music teaching styles.
Darol Anger/Master educator
Darol is a gifted educator who uses his vast experience as a performing artist to help his students focus on what they need to do, from where they're at. I had been playing fiddle ...
A fiddle course for more than Bluegrass
Darol is a legend in moving violin acceptance into alternative genres. His tone production is superb. Shared playing and insights in every lesson. I’m not a BG player, loving the i...
Awsome!
Has improved my skills drastically in a short time. I have not posted a video yet, but watching Darol's responses to other students has nearly had the same impact as a private less...
Darol rocks
Grateful for the lessons with Darol. He is timely in his responses, encouraging, constructive, challenging and tailors things to that which I’m interested in learning
Fiddle with Darol Anger
THIS IS NOT FOR PUBLICATION. ArtistWorks: Mr. Anger's program, instruction, and material are excellent. This is my fourth year subscribing. Unfortunately, I have never been able ...
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