Like the wonderment Dorothy must have felt traveling that yellow brick road, I too tend to feel that same wonderment when working on hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides. Especially when used in the context of a tune. There are several reason why we might use these slurs, but the most important to me is variation. Another […]
Too many notes! If you’ve seen the movie Amadeus then you might remember the scene where the emperor tells Mozart this, and that he should remove a few. I’m sure, like Mozart, Colonel Sanford C. ‘Sandy’ Faulkner would be asking, “Which few did you have in mind?” Mr. Faulkner would probably be aghast at the […]
This ol’ boy was traveling through the Ozarks with his rucksack and fiddle strapped across his back. As he stopped to catch his breath he looked across the expanse of forest and mountains. With a head full of fresh mountain air he sat down, pulled out his fiddle, tuned the strings, and composed this little […]
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