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Waltzes, Airs and Haunting Melodies

...with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason

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Learn to play lovely, heart-rending pieces and benefit from Jay Ungar's years of experience as a top fiddler. He shows the inventive use of slides, grace notes, rolls, smears, vibrato and special bowing techniques that turn ordinary tunes into distinctive compositions. Jay teaches "Tombigbee Waltz," "Tennessee Waltz," "South Wind," "Shebeg Shemor," "Give Me Your Hand" and his Grammy-winning tune from Ken Burns' PBS Civil War series, "Ashokan Farewell."

(about 90 minutes)

This video was added to our catalog on June 07, 2005 in Musical Instruction::Fiddle and Musical Instruction::Guitar.

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Reviewer: Jim L.

For the beginner or intermediate player, this little instruction set on pleasant, easy to play melodies is just the ticket. The instructor doesn't talk down to you, doesn't talk too fast and the camera work is done in such a way as to show you what you need to play it too.

Highly recommended.

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Reviewer: Tim M.

Excellent video. Mr. Ungar's lessons and playing are among the best I've seen.

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