Greetings, Fiddlers!
As we head into Autumn of 2021, I hope everyone is getting enough fiddling time. It’s a bit better year so far, with unexpected setbacks, but basically we’re hopeful that we’ll gradually be able to get out there and play more music with friends, maybe sooner, maybe later.
We now have the complete lesson series [all 5 parts!] of Byron Berline’s Huckleberry Hornpipe safely tucked away in the Greeting Video section, available to all you fiddlers simply by clicking on the VIEW MORE button right below the screen in the middle of you Fiddle School Home Page.
The overworked tech crew at Artistworks also found time—between moving the entire production office across town and adding 2 MAJOR new music schools— to post a new lesson series on one of my favorite tunes: the great and multi-faceted Bonaparte’s Retreat. At this point, only the beginning version is up, but there are beginning, intermediate, and advanced versions, and I’ll soon have some nice backup tracks for those various versions of this tune available in the “Study Materials” section. The PDFs are already there, in the Additional Study Materials bin.
https://my.artistworks.com/darol-anger/learning/185804/271034
https://my.artistworks.com/darol-anger/study-materials
AND… our Fiddle School has a Facebook Page! Many of you have already visited this; it’s the former Darol’s Fiddling Retreat page. The events of the last couple of years have made it impossible to actually do this event, so I just turned that page into a “gateway drug” for our fabulous enclave here.
https://www.facebook.com/darolangerfiddleschool/
You can post there for the public, or just do a quick survey of various news about fiddlers in general. Mostly I’ve been purging the page of heavy-metal music incursions! Somehow, many movie and Metal fans saw an opportunity to post all over my fiddle page, but I’m weeding them out. Ah, the Internet. It makes me extra grateful for this protected space here where we can all do our thing and bathe in fiddling thoughts, and support and encourage each other.
Thanks again for being such seriously wonderful participants in our great collective endeavor: to improve our fiddling a little bit at a time, and have a good time doing it!
Enjoy!
—DA