Andy Reiner

River of Suck Podcast – Live Recording with Andy Reiner & Barry Saunders

November 22, 2019 By

Host: Andy Reiner Special Guest: Barry Saunders
All Levels; All Instruments

Be part of a live recording of River of Suck Podcast – the evolution of Andy’s “Healthy Musical Attitudes” from a decade of fiddle camp workshops. “You have to suck at something before you can be good at it.” River of Suck is real-talk about struggles with confidence, self-doubt and becoming the youest you. Host Andy Reiner and Special Guest Barry Saunders will parse tough questions about maintaining a healthy attitude in the face of impossible obstacles.

Improvising with Fiddle Tunes

November 22, 2019 By

Instructor: Andy Reiner
All Levels; Bowed Stringed Instruments

Using ornaments, tune skeletons and smaller phrases, we’ll learn strategies for on-the-spot rhythmic and melodic variations. Keeping tunes fresh, alive, and 3-Dimensional. (Can you find the mysterious fourth dimension of fiddle tunes?) Game-changing for contra dance tunes as well as taking solos in bluegrass jams.

Tunewriting

November 22, 2019 By

Instructor: Andy Reiner
All Levels; All Instruments

Tunewriting is for players who want to explore the compositional side of traditional music. In this workshop, we’ll dissect fiddle tunes to find out what makes them tick, explore different compositional strategies, discuss how to use melodic development to turn a small phrase into a coherent fiddle tune, and learn how to open ourselves up to receive those magic bits of inspiration. As a group, we will collaborate on writing a new tune together, and attendees will leave with a new skill set and inspiration for writing new tunes into the future!

Free Improv

November 22, 2019 By

Instructor: Andy Reiner
All Levels; All Instruments

Featuring small group musical explorations in a welcoming environment with a strong focus on listening and musicality. A perfect introduction to improvising, and just as appropriate and deeper for more experienced players. It’s time to get weird!

Improv From Scratch

November 22, 2019 By

Instructor: Andy Reiner
All Levels; All Instruments

With our instruments, we will explore rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic improvisation strategies that enhance our musicianship in any style, while working to cultivate a healthy musical attitude – removing mental barriers and freeing ourselves to be creative, improvising musicians.

Chopping and Strum Bowing (Tracy Silverman’s new rhythm fiddling method, it rules!)

November 22, 2019 By

Instructor: Andy Reiner
All Levels; Bowed Stringed Instruments

This class combines both chopping techniques as well as the Strum Bowing Method. Both are described below:

Chopping – unpitched bow noises that turn the violin into a drumset. Learn the technique and feeling at an incremental pace. Take the oath and learn how to chop wisely, musically, and tastefully. You will emerge with the tools and strategies to practice your chopping into the future, and employ the technique wherever your creativity takes you.READ MORE