Included here are nuts-and-bolts fiddle lessons from my blog with assorted sheet music, audio and video resources as well as essays about being a musician and a teacher.
FIDDLE TUNES & TECHNIQUES
- Christmas Seal – “A Fisherman’s Song for Calling the Seals,” trad. Orkney jig (sheet music)
- Diatonic chords and music – Chord Wheel and more from “Fiddling Demystified for Strings” Vol. I.
- Festival of American Fiddle Tunes – 2019 class repertoire (audio, sheet music)
- Festival Mémoires et Racines 2014 – two Louis Beaudoin reels (audio, sheet music)
- Jiggety-jig to the dance! – fiddle music is dance music (audio, sheet music)
- “La marche des femmes” – a 1984 composition recorded in 2013 with Panache Quartet
- Millworkers – My People – Franco-American history in my original song “The Shuttle” (audio)
- Music on the deck and online – Québecois fiddling video from my weekly Fiddling Demystified class
- “Raven’s Wing” – a tune for my father co-written with Max Cohen, who was there that day (audio, video)
- Rhythm bowing patterns for jigs and reels – lesson in subdividing rhythm with your bow (sheet music)
- The art of the groove – Smith College syllabus/handouts for rhythm workshop for faculty and students
- Facebook Fiddlers’ Association – A forum friends and I founded where 7000+ fiddlers share tunes, videos and fiddle lore
ON BEING A MUSICIAN
- How to learn a tune by ear – what does it take?
- Jamming Successfully – some guidelines and questions
- Music as a birthright – music in families on Cape Breton, from “Notes from Cape Breton”
- Music is our birthright – how do we nurture it in young people?
- Play vs. Practice – how do you approach your fiddle time?
- The Stage As a Living Room – reframing stage fright
- Twelve questions about fiddling for violinists – published in a 2002 Strings Magazine article
- Why I play Franco-American music – published in 1998 in Le Forum/UMaine Orono
- You and your fiddle – hints about making your music more fun