Thanks for your kind endorsement and insight into blues fiddle playing. Listening to the style of a good singer is especially instructive for fiddle or violin playing.

These tips really came in handy. Thank you very much!

Got tabs? lol. I'm glad I stumbled on this. It's really going to round me out!

"G" scale for blues violin G, Bb, C, C#, D, F, G

Great player and great teacher!

I really like your demo, and explanations.

This is THE ONLY blues fiddle posting on all of youtube that is not some "violinist" blathering pentatonic diarrhea over the 12 bar form. Most of them sound way too nervous, and nervous is not blues music! Milk Cow is an excellent example of how blues music sounds. I wonder if any of the so-called purvuyors of "blues fiddling" have ever listened to Little Walter or other classic blues harmonica players? The most authentic sounding blues fiddlers I hear are the Texas fiddlers like Cliff Bruner.

Thank you for your kind words, coming from a great student, which is exactly what I hope to be.

Great!! thanks for posting this.

That's a good experience, playing fiddle music in an old time string band.

Thanks a lot for this - but you have insidiously inserted some very advanced music theory in here without boring me. ha ha!

Good stuff . . i.m learning the fiddle using videos on u tube just like this very helpful . . thanks very much.!

The clue is the open string I start with. The G string and the scale and key of G. Often called "the people's key of G."

Essentially he's playing on the G and D strings: G, B, D, F natural (lo 2) and back down. The second chord (C) is C (3rd finger on G), E (first finger on D), G and B flat (lo 1 on A). The third chord (D) is open D, F sharp (hi 2), and open A. There are slides and some double stops (two strings played at once) but essentially just as I described above.

Thanks for posting

That's Milk Cow Blues, a country blues song. I picked it up from Doc Watson.

The violin is a Hanson made in 1937 in New York. I also use it in my orchestra playing with the Richey Communiy Orchestra.

I did not catch the lack of appreciation. Thanks for holding up the flag of good music.

Holy god this guy is good

lol cool i like your work this is the same as bass walking and also guitar scales and solo

Great!

Thanks!

It is also a Johnny Burnette song titled Rock Therapy

My baby plays the guitar, I pick a banjo now...

What style of blues did he mention at 3:19? It sounded really awesome, something that I would love to play on my guitar

Aren't those words from Rock Me Like a Wagon Wheel?

I wonder if the difference you hear is the steel vs. nylon strings. A fiddle and violin are identical, but many fiddlers use string whereas most classical violinists use nylon. That more metallic sound might be what you assiciate with a stroh.

Hi Grassapelli, i like your lectures. Hope i can get a grip with time. You mention a fiddle book in this section. Can I get it from you? Greets from Germany.

I do recognize the tune, but I just wondered if it had a name, cause then I could go looking for some sheet music for this :)

Well, gee....(looks down at the floor, shuffles his feet)...now I'll have to do another one.

sorry to bug again butt does blues fidd work the same on guitar a lot of time the cords line up like 1,4,5 blue cords

What was the title of that song?

For more about 12 bar blues, visit bluesviolin[dot]com.

.,.,can u pls tell wat scale are you using.,. tnx.,.,

I love to hear your Violin Sound that Fat but Crisp on High register. what Violin that you use on this video Dear Sir? is it Galglianno or Stainer or Bennedetto or Cremona? please Answer. thanks a lot and God Bless You...!

Hi! Great video! I am trying to write down all your notes from 3:14 to 4:28 and it's really hard. Do you know your notes and could write them? I understand that it's still the 12 bar blues form but I can't figure out the notes. All the notes 0:30 to 0:56 I have accomplished to write down! Ps. I am a beginner but I really want to progress!

@Grassapelli

7 жыл бұрын

Milk Cow Blues, and I do have the tab for it. Look for it on 100fiddletunes.com in about a week.

@alvar1211

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Is the tab up now?

@Grassapelli

7 жыл бұрын

I will have it up by Mon. Or perish in the attempt.

@Grassapelli

7 жыл бұрын

And it's up now. 100fiddletunes.com/milk-cow-blues

@alvar1211

7 жыл бұрын

Great, thank you!

Do you offer books without the tab format?

Soon I should have charts in standard musical notation.

(continued) and Joe Holley (or most any of Bob Wills' fiddlers) and Kansas City "jazzer" Claude Williams. So many of the "blues fiddle" postings here are virtuosic types like Mark O'Connor and Dorol Anger, and while phenominal at non-blues styles, do not exhibit any soulful comprehension of blues music. I would point to the singing of Jimmie Rodgers as the most accessable example of blues, but would hope folks would dig deeper to Son House Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters etc. Listen to singers!!

What scale do you use for blues in A MINOR? I know you use Am for blues in A maj

@Grassapelli

6 жыл бұрын

John Austin Historical recordings have major chords in blues, while the melody goes a little bit minor.

@JNITLOST

6 жыл бұрын

But more modern blues musicians tell us we should be able to play blues in minor keys??

@Grassapelli

6 жыл бұрын

John Austin Musicians try many things. What they like, they keep. That’s the main rule.

@JNITLOST

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Elan - nice videos

if you could record the mast closer .... and see more clear notes ..

@ElleEaze Sind Sie Deutcher?

i cant figure out the notes??? takes so long im a beginner any help anyone??

@truegrassboy: yes, i am German...why?

How do I play this? And would this answer my question on my quizd396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/musicianship/L04_Study-Guide-v1.pdf to play the 12 bar blues. I don't understand keyboards or other instruments just violin. Do you have the exact notes. I suppose if i listened a few times I could play it. All instruments the same but note the same on chords/notes? Not sure if making myself clear, seems so hard but easy. Been playing violin for years but have no knowledge or understanding very little of music theory, wish I could just memorize every sound and kinda can do some to play in groups but there has to be a purpose to this music theory stuff. Intervals are helpful make sense

@Grassapelli

10 жыл бұрын

Keyboard theory is not so useful in learning music theory for violin and fiddle. Have you gone through the complete Playlist of kzread.info/head/PLFEE6ACBC6A976462 That's a good starting point.

@bchristianful

10 жыл бұрын

Elan Chalford thanks will look through all this. I grew up Suzuki and was hoping I could give up music theory and just play by ear but that doesn't seem to work in Yanni Until the Last Moment. I can play this if I listen to it enough times. Will look through your information before giving up on music theory. I was hoping I could give up music theory and memorize every sound, note but that doesn't seem like that is working, kinda. Thanks

@bchristianful

10 жыл бұрын

bchristianful I want to learn to play well with others maybe in a church group and probably music theory is needed

Great!