The Amazing Fiddle Scale: New Lesson Series

Fri, 12/09/2016 - 3:58pm
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amazing fiddle scale

A new 3 part lesson series has just gone up, harvested from Darol's recent epic ArtistWorks studio session. Darol identifies and demonstrates a very versatile scale pattern that works in any key. Using a simple rule of removing certain notes when ascending or descending, fiddlers can fly around scales and changes with ease. Darol not only teaches the scale pattern and ways to use it, he also demonstrates many places in popular tunes where it can be used to your advantage. Check out the Amazing Fiddle Scale and see how well it helps you zoom handily through chord changes in your favorite tune!

Find it in the Intermediate area of the Learning Channel or just click here!  

Darol Anger with Alex Hargreaves at RockyGrass 2016

Thu, 12/08/2016 - 3:01pm
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darol anger with alex hargreaves at rockygrass 2016

This is a great interview with Alex Hargreaves, a major rising star in the fiddle world filmed in the RV at RockyGrass 2016. As the newest member of the Grammy award-winning, Turtle Island Quartet (of which Darol was an original member), Alex Hargreaves is an innovative, cross-genre violinist. ArtistWorks mandolin teacher Mike Marshall calls him “one of the greatest improvising violinists in America today," and they recorded an album together as The Big Trio when Alex was just 17 years old along with bassist Paul Kowert. Alex has a long running relationship with our Bluegrass faculty and we're happy to bring you this interview.

Find it in the +Music section of the Learning Channel or just click here

New Gypsy Jazz Fiddle Lessons

Fri, 12/02/2016 - 6:51pm
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gypsy jazz fiddle lesson - minor swing

We're excited to announce we've just added some new Gypsy Jazz fiddle lessons! Recently Darol visited the ArtistWorks studios to teach some of the most popular tunes from the Gypsy Jazz repertoire. Accompanied by renowned picker (and teacher of our free acoustic guitar lesson series) Scott Law, each song has in-depth analysis from Darol, plus duet performances with Scott and fiddle notation. Darol has particularly unique and rare insight on these tunes having learned them directly from the great Stéphane Grappelli himself. 

Each of these has their own lesson series, find them in the Learning Channel or click on the links below:

Minor Swing
Swing 42
Djangology

The Coal Burnin' Grease Fire

Sun, 08/07/2016 - 7:14am
Written by DarolAnger

Here's a great version of "The Coal Burnin' Grease Fire" I played recently with Mike Barnett (interviewed on this site!), and Joe K. Walsh on mandolin - recorded live at Augusta Bluegrass Week 2016! This tune appeared first on a Compass CD Mike Marshall & I made called Brand New Can. You can also download the Psychograss version here: https://darolanger1.bandcamp.com/track/psychograsslive-coal-burnin-grease-fire