Instructor: Neil Pearlman
All Levels; Accordion
Learn one or two of Neil’s favorite tunes to play on the accordion along with specific tips for ornamentation, style and fingering on the instrument.
Accordion
Adding Improvised Variations and Fills to your Tune Playing
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!
Hearing the Chords
Instructor: Neil Pearlman
All levels, All Instruments
At sessions it’s not uncommon to be have a fiddler call out a key and start playing, but how does the accompanist follow along if they don’t already know the tune? Do guitarists and pianists have to develop an encyclopedic repertoire of tunes just to survive? Happily this is not the case.READ MORE