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No fiddle player will want to miss this powerful DVD lesson! Vassar Clements´ superb technique and imaginative musical ideas are slowed down and brought up close to help you improve your technique, increase your repertoire and expand your musical horizons.
Vassar explores more than a dozen of his classic licks, showing how he uses slides, chromatics, double and triple-stops, slurs and boogie-woogie patterns to enhance a variety of tunes. You´ll learn some of his best-known original and traditional fiddle breaks and how he uses his earliest influences-blues and jazz-to transform ordinary bluegrass/country fiddle sounds into extraordinary ones.
You´ll learn to play Vassar´s awesome fiddle arrangements for classic tunes such as Avalanche, Good Woman´s Love, Listen to the Mockingbird, Lonesome Fiddle Blues, Windjammer, Orange Blossom Special, Down Yonder and more. Sit in on a conversation with his friend and accompanist Bob Hoban as Vassar reveals some "trade secrets" about pick-ups, bows, rosin, strings and other fascinating topics. He even gives a rare demonstration of flatpicking the fiddle in a blues-style improvisation!
(about 90 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on June 07, 2005 in Musical Instruction::Fiddle.
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This video was not helpful to me at all. Vassar shows you how to play some of his embellishments and tricks, but doesn't play any songs in their entirety. If you want to learn songs, I would recommend the Brad Leftwitch DVD that Smartflix has or the Bruce Molsky Homespun DVD that Smartflix doesn't have.
This is an excellent DVD for intermediate to advanced players that want to learn how to add to any fiddle tune. Vassar is awesome and shows easy to harder level ornamentation. There is also a little booklet of the complete tunes for you to follow along with.
If you can read music, can hear, and can play the violin... you will love this little DVD.
