Catherine Towns Miller http://www.ctmiller.net/cathy Violin, Viola, and Fiddle Lessons & Performance Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:42:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Jam session thoughts http://www.ctmiller.net/cathy/2008/07/21/jam-session-thoughts/ http://www.ctmiller.net/cathy/2008/07/21/jam-session-thoughts/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:40:57 +0000 admin http://www.ctmiller.net/cathy/?p=9 Jam sessions are a great way to work on your listening and interpretation skills. I was fortunate enough to end up at a legendary private party out in Chardon last week that was incredible! Even though I only knew about half of the songs, I was able to work on inserting riffs from songs that I do know into the fabric of new tunes. For those players who are good readers and like to wrap their heads around the theory behind what they are playing,

I recommend the Mel Bay Hokum Theory and Scales for FIddle. I have found it to be helpful if you’re into that sort of thing.

I cannot recommend enough the importance of getting out and playing with other people. The only way to get better and to put the skills that you are learning into context (this applies to classical music as well) is to get together with other musicians.

You can always feel free to email me if you have questions about fiddle music or teaching techniques.

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