Rockin' Out With Blues Fiddle

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781879730113
• ISBN10: 1879730111
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Huiksi Music Company

Summary

The blues is an incredibly powerful form of music that creates an environment within which you, the soloist, can improvise easily and expressively. This one-of-a-kind book for violinists - with its supportive practice CD - will provide you with technical, musical and stylistic tips designed to activate your imagination, fine-tune your right- and left-hand touch, and help you develop a uniquely individual sound. Includes 17 solos to demonstrate the styles of great blues fiddlers, with bios on each. "Blues Fiddle presents an excellent introduction to the often overlooked art form of blues fiddling." - Frets Magazine

Table of Contents

A Blue Odyssey Into Fiddling	6	(9)
Blues Fiddle Technique and Theory	9	(6)
Introductions, Backup, and Endings	15	(8)
Fiddling with Funk	23	(1)
Amplification	24	(2)
The Blues Fiddle Tradition	26	(5)
How To Read the Transcriptions	31	(3)
The Tunes	34	(1)
The Blues Fiddlers	35	(23)
Blue Miss	36	(1)
Clifford Hayes
Tears are Falling	37	(1)
Lonnie Johnson
Blue Lament	38	(1)
Eddie Anthony
J.J.'s Blues	39	(1)
Tom ``Bluecoat'' Nelson
Mindy's Fiddle Blues	40	(1)
Nap Hayes
Blues Be Kind	40	(1)
Milton Robie
Sad-Eyed Blues	41	(2)
Lonnie Chatmon
Gravedigger Blues	43	(1)
James Cole
Moving Right Along Blues	44	(1)
Will Batts
Grits and Gravy Blues	45	(1)
Charlie Pierce
Crying Blues	46	(1)
Carl Martin
Hotter Than Blues	47	(1)
Remo Biondi
Stretch It	48	(2)
Don Sugarcane Harris
Blues on the Riviera	50	(2)
Howard Armstrong
Papa's Blues	52	(2)
Papa John Creach
Blues at Dawn	54	(2)
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Whose Blues	56	(2)
Claude Williams
Blues Fiddle Today	58	(1)
Discography	59	(1)
Bibliography	60