Fiddle
New Beginner Fiddle Lesson: Little Liza Jane
Darol filmed a batch of new lessons during his most recent visit to the ArtistWorks studios and we've just added a few more to the Beginner section. You'll find 2 new lessons on the classic tune Little Liza Jane; taught in the keys of A & G. Darol performs the tune both with and without a backing track and breaks it down with analysis. You'll find notation and backing tracks in multiple tempos in the lesson study materials to help your practice. You can find these lessons in the Beginner Fiddle lesson list or by clicking on one of these titles:
Happy bowing fiddlers, stay tuned for more new lessons coming soon!
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the first DA Global Fiddle retreat is complete.
Greetings, Fiddlers!
October has been an amazing month: Two Orchestra solo appearances, my new recording (MUSIC OF OUR PEOPLE) getting into the top 5 in airplay on American Folk Radio, my first month living back in the West, and this new venture: my first foray into the scary and exciting world of Fiddle Camp-Land.
Yes folks, I threw my own darn fiddle party, and just as with any party, you don’t know if anyone will come, or enjoy. But… it worked!
The first ever Darol Anger Global Fiddle Retreat is history, and folks seemed to really have a great time! It was small and very cozy, but we also had the incredible award-winning youthful fiddler Annie Staninec and Singer-Songwriter-Creativity Guru Emy Phelps to coach the participants.Thanks also to the generosity of Jim Dunlop and D’Addario Strings for providing great gift bags stuffed with super-useful goodies!
Read MoreDarol Anger’s unlisted 7-part Irish Fiddle YouTube Intensive with Adam Agee
A little bit of an Irish Summer in Colorado.
Darol Anger's unlisted 7-part YouTube interview with the incredible Irish fiddler Adam Agee is now available exclusively to Artistworks Fiddle students.
Irish-style fiddling, like Ireland, is full of amazing twists, turns, and back roads leading to unexpected, highly detailed vistas. Darol interviews one of the most interesting Irish fiddlers out there: Adam Agee. Adam grew up in America, and his choice to pursue Irish traditional music arose purely from a his love for, and resonance with, the Irish sound. ?Over decades, at Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon fiddle camp and at various workshops in America and Ireland, where he studied with many of today's greatest living tradition-bearers, such as Martin Hayes, Liz Carroll, and others.
Adam's devotion to detail make him an ideal instructor of this style, and you can see in these videos how he approaches an authentic Irish fiddle sound. Darol and Adam geek out on slides, cuts, rolls, trills, and other musical emements of this amazing fiddle style.
These videos were shot outdoors in the aftermath of Colorado's famed Rockygrass Festival, and the lighting and sound are not always perfect, so we're making it available as an unlisted series only for Artistworks Fiddle School students.
Darol Anger’s unlisted 7-part Irish Fiddle YouTube Intensive
A little bit of an Irish Summer in Colorado.
Darol Anger's unlisted 7-part YouTube interview with the incredible Irish fiddler Adam Agee is now available exclusively to Artistworks Fiddle students.
Irish-style fiddling, like Ireland, is full of amazing twists, turns, and back roads leading to unexpected, highly detailed vistas. Darol interviews one of the most interesting Irish fiddlers out there: Adam Agee. Adam grew up in America, and his choice to pursue Irish traditional music arose purely from a his love for, and resonance with, the Irish sound. ?Over decades, at Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon fiddle camp and at various workshops in America and Ireland, where he studied with many of today's greatest living tradition-bearers, such as Martin Hayes, Liz Carroll, and others.
Adam's devotion to detail make him an ideal instructor of this style, and you can see in these videos how he approaches an authentic Irish fiddle sound. Darol and Adam geek out on slides, cuts, rolls, trills, and other musical emements of this amazing fiddle style.
These videos were shot outdoors in the aftermath of Colorado's famed Rockygrass Festival, and the lighting and sound are not always perfect, so we're making it available as an unlisted series only for Artistworks Fiddle School students.
New Fiddle Lessons on Double Stops
This month Darol will be adding new fiddle lessons expanding his teaching on double stops - a crucial stylistic technique for playing bluegrass! This third new addition to the topic of double stops teaches a very helpful exercise to help you practice your double stops in 3rds around the neck. The lesson has play throughs in slow and fast tempos and notation to assist your learning. Find it in the Intermediate section or just click here!
Fiddle Arpeggios: Crazy Arpeggio Etude
This is the last in a recent series of new lessons on fiddle arpeggios. Next month we'll be adding more new fiddle lessons with a focus on Double Stops. Find it in the Intermediate section or just click here!
Fiddle Arpeggios: Dixie Breakdown
Continuing with Darol's Fiddle Arpeggios lesson series, this week Darol has added the tune "Dixie Breakdown". Find it in the Intermediate area of the Learn area or just click here!
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Darol Anger Teaches 15 Iconic Bluegrass Fiddle Solos
Bluegrass music was built upon historic performances by the creators of the style: Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Vassar Clements, Chubby Wise, Benny Martin, and many others. We study those performances to master the style. And in Bluegrass music, as in Bebop, Rock, and many other genres, quoting a performance from the original recording is considered not only a good idea, it’s a badge of knowledge and belonging, and a way of connecting the past with the present. Knowing these genre-defining solos can help you develop subtle and nuanced musical commentaries on the original solo, and help you create your own accurate, original take on the entire style.
We've been releasing one solo a week and now they're finally all up there, it's a fiddle fest!
Now Available:
- Muleskinner Blues Kickoff #1
- Muleskinner Blues Kickoff #2
- Fiddle Arpeggios: 1-4-5- in A
- Uncle Pen
- My Cabin in Caroline
- Somone Took My Place with You
- Can't You Hear Me Calling
- Footprints in the Snow
- Foggy Mountain Special
- Blue Night
- Gonna Settle Down
- On My Way Back Home
- Ginseng Sullivan
- When Joy Kills Sorrow
- Border Ride
- Flint Hill Special
Wintergrass Fiddle Intensive Session Thursday Feb 23!
Hey, you Pacific Northwest fiddlers, you! You can attend an in-person hands-on Fiddle Workshop led by Darol Anger at the Wintergrass Music Festical in Bellevue, WA on Thursday Feb 23. Find out all you need to know right here.
http://www.wintergrass.com/intensives.html
Read MoreArtistWorks Live: Fiddle
This recent edition of ArtistWorks Live is hosted by John Graves and features Darol Anger talking fiddle with Kathleen Parks. We've been doing these once a month with one of our teachers here for a while now, and anyone with our 12 month membership can tune in live to ask questions. You can find more on our YouTube channel here! Read More