This book is a “must have” for any serious student of the fiddle.” 0 Our mission is to bring the joy of fiddling to everyone, whether you are a student just beginning your journey on the instrument or an experienced teacher looking for new ideas and inspiration. 1.9K likes. Canadian Fiddle Styles was written to include both beginning/intermediate and advanced fiddlers. 76546.jpg Richard Wood, Canadian electric fiddle player.... + Lightbox. Email : info@crosscanadafiddle.com In other words, April Verch and Brian Wicklund bring us not just a “tune book” but a method book. 76549.jpg Richard Wood, Canadian electric fiddle player.... + Lightbox. Please have a look around: you will find complete e-books for all skill levels, individual tunes to help you round out your repertoire, and many exciting tune arrangements so you can make music with your friends. Learn With Us Geoff’s exciting chord colours are often the foundation of the ensemble arrangements we create for string ensembles. Pianists can gather many interesting chord ideas by listening to his unique accompaniment style on the recordings found on this site. They present the history of the tunes, the barebones versions of the tunes, and then the traditional bowings and ornaments to challenge any fiddler. Despite this association, however, the violin did not travel over with the first colonists to New France. draws on a wide variety of experience as a teacher, performer, and lifelong student of music. And this book is not only special but important: pretty much every detail you¹d want to know about these styles, presented clearly and in good order, with some of the best-recorded versions of these tunes too. Sign up to stay informed! What's New
76547.jpg Richard Wood, Canadian electric fiddle player.... + Lightbox. She is now a full time fiddle instructor, performer/entertainer, fiddle competition judge, Director of the Orangeville Fiddle and Step Dance Camp, and is a freelance workshop and camp instructor. The Fretless is the Canadian fiddle foursome playing an essential part in the emerging movement mainstreaming traditional irish folk music. A great music book, indeed.” “I love this book! It shows you that there isn’t just one way to play a tune. This collection of Acadian fiddlers was organized by Louis and Devon Léger with the help of the staff at Hearth Music, especially Carl-Eric Tangen.By no means a final compendium of Acadian fiddlers, it was our wish to start a dialogue and encourage research into the lives and music of the great fiddlers of the Acadian regions that have inspired us and made us dance through the years. Following the basic melody, each tune is notated a second and third time demonstrating more advanced ornaments and bowing patterns that are traditional in the region of Canada where the tune originates.This highly anticipated book features traditional tunes from each regional style of fiddling in Canada including Old Time Canadian, French Canadian, Cape Breton and Métis, as well as examples of the various types of tunes in the Canadian fiddling repertoire: reels, jigs, hornpipes, waltzes, schottisches, airs and strathspeys.An extremely exciting bonus to this method is the 60 minute play-along audio that is included with each book. Calvin Vollrath (Canadian Fiddler). SHOPPING CART
Ensemble Music Format : Sheet music + CD . April and Brian- two wonderful fiddlers (one Canadian!)
Classic Canadian tunes give the student a solid foundation in the tradition while clearly notated melodies and ornamentations combine with recorded audio to allow for a well rounded approach. In addition to piano, Geoff plays fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and sings. This book, I think, will be the classic reference book for Canadian fiddling for a very long time.” “I have had the honor of performing and teaching alongside April and Brian.