A Fiddle Player's Guide to Jamming
by John Sherman & Carl Yaffey
$14.99
sku: 02-20889M
Book with online audio. Everything a beginning/intermediate fiddler needs to know to participate in a jam session. Describes the anatomy of a jam session, jam session etiquette, chords and keys for jamming, and vamping. The play-along audio includes 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel, and once in stereo. 30 pp. More Details...
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Contents:
- Preface
- About the Audio
- Acknowledgements
- Anatomy of a Jam Session
- Chords and Keys for Jamming
- Bluegrass Rhythm
- What Can I Bring to the Jam?
- Laying Back
- Percussive Vamping
- Percussive Vamping with Bounce
- Rhythmic Chordal Vamping
- Melodic Fills
- Playing a Parallel Harmony Line
- Taking a Solo
- Index of Double Stop Chords for Vamping
- Participating in a Jam Session
- Jamming Etiquette
- Appendix 1 - Some Typical Guitar Chords
- Appendix 2 - Resources
- Appendix 3 - Some Rules for Jamming
- Appendix 4 - Audio Tunes
- About the Authors
- Hot Corn, Cold Corn
- Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
- Nine Pound Hammer
- John Henry
- Two Little Boys
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Down the Road
- Little Maggie
- John Hardy
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