At Fiddlin' Mike, our fiddle, guitar, and mandolin lessons are designed so that players of all levels can benefit from the 100+ hours of streaming video and an extensive sheet music library. Our instructors use a wide variety of tunes to communicate specific music concepts, like fingering, bowing, pick technique, intonation, tone, improvisation, or theory. These lessons cater to both beginning and advanced students, and are designed to break down advanced techniques used by masters so that any student can learn and apply them.
Fiddlin' Mike teachers include state and national fiddle, guitar mandolin champions and nationally touring musicians. Covering a range of styles from bluegrass, Texas/Contest style fiddling, Swing, Jazz, Country, our teachers can cover anything else you pickers want to learn!
Keep an eye out, because we will feature at least one new video every week, where you can learn great tunes and killer licks.
You guitar pickers get to capo up to 3rd fret and play in G major. Us mando pickers have to learn it in Bb or figure it out in G without a capo. I cheated, sort of, by using a capo and transcribing the notes in G. It will take me the rest of my life to learn this in B flat and play it fast like Nat Keefe does. Either key, it's a great tune, one I have been obsessed with since 2019.
Hi Mike I'm just now discovering your vids and pretty awesome stuff! Curious about your flattop box is that a Mossman? I use to own one the headstock resembles those style. Thanks for the teaching here sir God bless you and yours! 🎸👍🇺🇸⚔️👍🎸
Beautiful! Thank you for this. I noticed that youtube censorship hit Garryowen hard. It supposedly racist because at some point Caster used it as his marching tune. I wonder when google libtards are going to ban Richard Wagner...
The Irish will claim every good tune is Irish. They will take obscure Scottish tunes and rename them with something Irish in the title, sometimes play them in g instead of A or b flat to keep the flute players happy This one is almost unknown in Ireland. Now I hear english are claiming it I know it as a Shetland tune
If the teaching was broken into teacher/pupil Q and A phrases whilst keeping the flow /continuity intact then pupils musicality might be enhanced rather than stopping for discussion -think " from the general to the particular? build up particular small chunks that are easily `memorisable `-This could help reading like rehearsing for a drama /play - give space for other actors to have their bit even if you foul up yours -this is the value of group teaching .
