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Donna Hébert

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Fiddling Demystified for Strings

"Should be required reading for every string teacher hoping to branch out into fiddling!" Strings Magazine
“A substantial contribution to the growing field of fiddling pedagogy. Fiddling Demystified should be required reading for all string teachers hoping to branch out into fiddling.” — Laura Risk, Strings Magazine

Darol Anger: Foreword    Lessons/tunes    Jam CD    Samples    Download book/CDs

Reviews . . .

The overarching vibe of this book is not coincidentally the quality that best expresses Donna’s character: Generosity. Fiddling Demystified is packed with so many years of thought, emotion, and experience, imbued with joy and delight, both the inherent delights of the fiddle and Donna’s irrepressible joie de vivre. Donna gets it all right, as far as I’m concerned. A cornucopia of technical and stylistic details flood this book, along with good stories replete with local and universal cultural context, but all the information serves the greater point, which is to get in there and crank that rhythm! I suspect that the general level of fiddle knowledge and playing will take a major uptick soon after publication, just as other great music books such as Earl Scruggs’ original banjo book, O’Neill‘s great Irish fiddling reference and the infamous jazz Real Book influenced the course of musicians’ lives and work.” – Berklee string prof Darol Anger in his Foreword to Fiddling Demystified

Donna is an outstanding performer and a world-class teacher of the art of fiddle. I consider her at the forefront of the developing field of fiddle pedagogy.” — Dr. Alan Jabbour, fiddler, Dir. (ret.), The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

The book and CD are GREAT! Wow!  The book is pretty wonderful on its own, a nice collection of tunes, with everything meticulously transcribed and explained in the text.  The CD’s though, are what really blew me away. Your explanations of not only the tunes, but also the ornamentations and other techniques that give them their character, is unique, amazing, and incredibly valuable! What an incredible gift you’ve given to those who aspire to play fiddle and to those of us who don’t but still want to know how to fold fiddle-istic ornaments and techniques into our playing! This is a treasure trove and I’m recommending it to everyone. There is tremendous value here, far beyond what I paid. You should be amazingly proud of yourself and YES … please … get busy on volume two. I’ll buy the first copy!” Wayne Fugate, mandolin player, musical cast member of “Bright Star” on Broadway.

Lesson/tune list    Darol Anger: Foreword    Sample pages    Jam CD   

Fiddling Demystified - fiddle edition - DOWNLOAD
Fiddling Demystified - fiddle edition - DOWNLOAD
Donna Hebert’s encyclopedia of fiddling with separate editions for violists and cellists. 70-page book opens with 20 pages of style vocabulary and technique lessons. 31 authentically-styled tunes from Celtic and North American traditions, with bowings, ornaments, suggested chords, embedded lessons for each. CD tracks demonstrate tunes at two speeds, with separate lesson tracks, for a total of 140 minutes of instruction. Fiddlejam CD features Donna and friends jamming on the tunes. Click book image for sample pages and lesson mp3s. "Donna gets it all right!" (Darol Anger: Foreword)
Price: $30.00

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