Wagon Wheel - 1st Solo Break for Fiddle Lesson 

I can't take my eyes off the cat. THE CAT.

Dude knows how to teach! So grateful.

You are the BEST teacher!!! Thank you so much for your generous heart.

This is the type of tutorial I've been looking for. I'm so out of practice that I've forgotten how to read sheet music, and breaking a song down Barney style is just what I need.

Wtf am I doing here I have a big test tomorrow. I don't even have a violin

Love your teaching style

I've been trying to learn this tune for forever! Glad to finally find a lesson video that is understandable! Much appreciated :)

This is awesome. I'm learning Irish fiddle, but I do love Wagon Wheel...can't wait to try this when I get a little better.

Been playing the mandolin for almost 20 years and the fun part is finding fiddle and violin videos like this to challenge myself. Perfect video man!

Thank you sir. Been wanting to play this for an age transferred to Irish tenor banjo. Picked it up in no time.

Fiddlehead your videos make my day. Thanks for being such a kind teacher. I come back to you all the time to learn new tunes, it feels just like when I learned to play fiddle from some friends in North Carolina.

Thank you so much for this tutorial and for producing the sheet music as well.

Yes. The kitty cat. I love the poses. Cats are awesome. And this lesson is great!!!

You are a great teacher! Thank you!

Thanks for sharing this fine fiddlin

One of my favorite tunes. Thanks for posting!

Wow, you are on it. Lol I got a request from an open mic pub group to be able to play this and here we go Fiddlehed to the rescue. Love the graphical follow along, I always wondered why someone didn't do that, it just makes sense and if i did fiddle videos, that would have been my addition.

Don’t even play fiddle, but love your vids. Thank you

Hi Jason. Thanks for the very useful videos. You are quite right, Old Crow vary their Wagon Wheel performances a lot. I timed their gig in Bonorroo 2005 and there were 3 fiddle breaks, song lasting 4.47 mins. In 2013 at The Americana Music Festival there were 4 fiddle breaks, song lasting 4.28 mins......So fiddle dee dee!

Excellent tuition thank you

Well, i finally got a fiddle a couple of months ago, i have been wanting to do this for years. Ive been playing guitar for around 30 years, banjo about 18 years, steel guitar for 15 and been a working musician for a good long time. I really like your teaching style, very layed back but your very clear in conveying yourself, and i checked out ALOT of the fiddlers on you tube. I gotta say its taken me longer than i thought to start making sounds that didnt resemble cats raping each other but i finally can thanx to you! The further i go the more i am completely serious about this. At first i wanted to learn it cause i was curious and liked the way it sounded, now i can tell its gonna be like guitar and ill be playing and learning till the end, i love it!(plus i 'm betting gigs will come to me more having the edge of knowing this instrument too. Thanx man, i appreciate you doing this.

Big favorite of mine that I play on guitar. I love that I have this video to go through phrase by phrase, a million times if I need it. This is just awesome

Well played Jason. This has been very helpful. Thank you. ;-)

Excellent lesson

As a guitarist of 20 years is so crazy to watch you hit the notes without frets 😂Just ordered a fiddle and gonna work towards learning this song.

I love the song and the cat.

another awesome video. thank you for being an awesome teacher. I'm working on a way to repay you in this lifetime.

This was the song that made me want to get a fiddle in the first place when i was 19 years old! thanks man! great vid

i like old crow medicine show, thanks for sharing it with us!

I love your cat!

This is so great! Thank you, you make it so easy to learn.

Gonna be performing this on Friday :D thanks for this tutorial.

Your channel is the best! thank you!

I am extremely excited that I can now play this!!! I saw Old Crow Medicine Show last year and that was the inspiration to start learning the fiddle. What a tune. Thanks Fiddlehed ! Merry Christmas!

Kitty doesn't move. Lovely cat

Thanks for this! i have a student wanting to learn it. 16:30 medium speed solo run-through

I dig the 3rd phrase looping for 4th finger work.

I never get thru the whole vid cuz I end up finding things to jam out on great style of explanation makes me want to rip thanks for all the free lessons I'm a big fan

Fantastic!!! Thank you.

Thank you again. Great teaching.

I do not have my violin/fiddle yet but I am going to get it soon I am just watching this ahead of time I plan to watch it when I get it.

You're really good. Thanks!

This is great! Would love to learn some more old crow from you! They have such a great sound, Thanks for sharing!

Great job, thanks for uploading this, and adding the tabs.

awesome! cant wait to sit down and learn this!

That started out easy but then it got hard towards the end but I think I got it :D After practicing each section it helps a lot to go back to the full speed version at the beginning to hear what it's supposed to sound like.

Yes!

First off I wanted to say I appreciate all the helpful videos you put out for us. I think it would be awesome if you put out more tutorials for the country fiddle tunes since there are practically no resources out for that. If you have the time it would be awesome if you could put together a tutorial for Long Hot Summer Day - John Hartford. Or Turnpike Troubadours version as well and they have a lot of great fiddle songs in general. Thanks again keep it up please!

Very good lesson - thank you. Good quality clear video.

Nice tutorial. Thanks. I also like the cat

Love your Cat😘

thank you so much for you're videos they are so very helpful!

I'm playing this with guitar, sounds good

Thank you

Okay.. I start practice this one even I just finished the second violin book..화이팅~~

I would love to see you play the song Home for a rest- by Spirit of the West and teach a tutorial for it. That would be wicked.

I'm new to fiddling, and your videos have really helped me! Can you do a video on cross tuning AEAE? Songs in A like this would be easier with no raised third fingers.

0:41 if you just want to play along at speed.

It would be awesome if you did a lesson video for old hickory by old crow medicine show

The Cat made me subscribe.

Hey Jason! Loved all of the Wagon Wheel videos. I was wondering if you might consider doing another Old Crow song in the future. I've really been wanting to find a video on their song "Carry Me Back to Virginia." It's a really fun, fast-paced tune. Thanks for all of these awesome lessons!

I don't know who is cuter...you or the cat???!!!! Got the song down by concentrating on the cat...meow ;)

hahhha ha best intro!! :)

Fiddle cats! My cats hate the sound of violin and viola, but they like the sound of my mandolin.

I get the feeling that house hold might be slightly chill on the chill meter. Chill on Brotha!

Kitty is the biz!

I think I learned a lot from you I'm just slow learner

This is the best lesson I've seen. But I have one question. I am a beginner who started not too long ago, so can you explain the difference between a H3 and a 4 for the finger placement?

Love your videos. Question: are your fiddles in standard tuning? I tune mine using any number of online violin tuners. It sounds in tune--but when I play along with you, we seem to be 1/2 step off from one another, or even less than that. We don't seem to be tuned the same. Would that be a digital/wav thing coming through the computer, or are we just tuned differently? One day I hope to play with a group :)Love that you're sharing your knowledge and talent with us. Thank you so much!

The high playing on G-string is so hard for me-I'm quite small in stature-barely 5ft- and short arms and fingers to match. I'm finding this makes playing high really tough. I'm trying to experiment with adjusting fiddle hold forward & bringing elbow in closer to front of body to even barely reach these notes. Its like a torture hold- I hope to hell it will get easier or I'm throwing the fiddle in the fireplace and going to get a massage!

This is great! Does anyone know if there is sheet music to go along w this lesson? The Old Crow Medicine Show sheet music is different that FiddleHed's lesson.

What key are you using? What does 'Old Crow use? Thought it was G?

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Hey! I'm loving the videos they're super helpful. Any chance of a lesson for Sweet Amarillo by Old Crow Medicine Show?

Hi, for the double stop on the first phrase, A 2, are you playing the open E string, or playing an E on the D string?

I am looking forward to learning this and this lesson is so good I am very confident but...what are those white lines on the neck? My fiddle does not have them and I thought all fiddles were fretless....so what's with the fret lines?

sorry I forgot to thank you for your videos

Ok so what happened in the beginning?

Is this piece included in the free trial? Is it a standard tuning?

I'd like to see a Wagon Wheel lesson in Cross-tuning

yay kitty!

I like the tabs in the corner to get you on track. That cat is really exhausted-what's his name?

hey I like your cat

Good video! You use the term "fiddle Break" in this video, and others. What does the term mean?

why do you suppose he cross tuned to play what you just taught without cross tuning?thanks for the lesson. fact is id rather not cross tune cause then I'd find myself searching for tunes I learned in standard tuning.

I got it own in 2 days

I see that you have a cat that looks similar to mines (he is gray/white). My cat keeps climbing on me and trying to swat the bow away from me. Maybe its just that I suck. Any tips for keeping a cat calm while playing?

I'm sorry, but where are the tabs?

Trying to register on Fiddlehed.com, but it won't let me register or change my password

Great videos! Thanks for sharing, where can I find the tabs for this song? I can't write that fast!

Do you offer this written out in musical notation anywhere?

Where can I find the tabs?

Still struggling...what do you suggest as a beginners song to learn on?

Can you do September Doves by Old Dog Street Band?

This song is a lot easier in AEAE. I think that's how OCMS plays is.

hey fiddlehed what strings are you using?

Is that cat dead?

14:00

Would saw mill tuning be good for this?

the sheet music fot the violin, im to lazy to tune it fiddle style :D