• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Fiddleicious Traditions

Fiddleicious Traditions

  • Home
  • About
    • Fiddle-icious Traditions
    • Photos
    • Videos
    • Participant Testimonials
    • In Fiddler Magazine
    • Fiddle-icious
    • Area Info.
  • 2020 Instructors
  • Classes
  • Schedule
  • Sponsors
  • Contact
  • Cart

Jazz

Adding Improvised Variations and Fills to your Tune Playing

January 22, 2020 By

Instructor: Neil Pearlman
Intermediate/Advanced Levels; All Instruments

So you know a bunch of tunes but what now? How do you keep them fresh, interesting and exciting as you delve into them? In this class Neil will share some of his favorite techniques for adding spontaneous variations and fills to the fiddle tunes you know and love. We’ll cover a variety of ideas from adding occasional “jazzy” runs to re-purposing the ideas already present in the tune to give it an extra kick!

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Jazz Fiddle: Where To Begin

December 26, 2018 By

Instructor: Rob Flax
All levels, Fiddle

This class focuses on unpacking the underlying structure of the jazz standard “Ja-Da,” a simple melody from the pre-bop era, which features a ii-V-I progression that pops up in thousands of jazz tunes (and many other places).

Tunes

Ja Da, by Bob Carlton (1918), as performed by the legendary jazz violinist Stuff Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=S9WM0W-pQSg

READ MORE

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Copyright © 2023 · Fiddle-icious Traditions is part of Fiddle-icious, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization · site by iknow