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FiddlePal - Home
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Workshops on the Road. Fiddle Pal Camp Minnesota 2016. American Fiddle Masters Concerts. The American Fiddle Masters Concert is a virtuosic mix of bluegrass, old-time Appalachian, Scottish, and swing, delivered with spontaneity and fun. This year performers will include Brian Wicklund (fiddle), Katie McNally (fiddle), Shauncey Ali (fiddle), Emliy Schaad, Ben Winship, Flynn Cohen, and Kevin Rowe (bass). American Fiddle Masters Concerts. 7PM Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater, MN. St Croix Falls, WI.
mikesblog.all12notes.com
Mike Cramer's Blog: One String Pentatonic Scales
http://mikesblog.all12notes.com/2009/10/one-string-pentatonic-scales.html
Music and Guitar related stuff. One String Pentatonic Scales. Posted by Mike Cramer. Pentatonic scales are 5 note scales that should be in every guitar player's vocabulary. The two most common pentatonic scales are the major and minor variety. However, any combination of 5 notes could be considered a pentatonic scale. Guitar players often learn pentatonic box shapes. These shapes are incredibly useful and easy to learn, but one problem many guitarists face is getting stuck. One String Pentatonic Scales.
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Mike Cramer's Blog: Creating Major Scales
http://mikesblog.all12notes.com/2009/10/creating-major-scales.html
Music and Guitar related stuff. Posted by Mike Cramer. Here's a handout I created for students that explains how to create all of the major scales. Click here. I hope you find it helpful. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My name is Mike Cramer. I co-own All 12 Notes, a music instruction center located in St. Paul, MN, where I teach guitar, mandolin, and electric bass. I'd like to use this space to share music and guitar related information in the form of lessons, reviews, and observations.
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Mike Cramer's Blog: Major Triads for Guitar
http://mikesblog.all12notes.com/2009/10/major-triads-for-guitar.html
Music and Guitar related stuff. Major Triads for Guitar. Posted by Mike Cramer. Learning triads and their inversions is a must for all guitarists, regardless of stylistic interests. In our rush to play our favorite songs we often skip directly to larger chord forms and harmonic structures instead of gaining a solid foundation in basic chord structure and harmony. It's not until later, however, we get a sense that a piece of the harmonic puzzle is missing from our chord vocabulary. Once we've created the ...
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Mike Cramer's Blog: May 2009
http://mikesblog.all12notes.com/2009_05_01_archive.html
Music and Guitar related stuff. Playing through Changes with Digital Patterns. Posted by Mike Cramer. At the last All 12 Notes Swing Jam. The topic of Digital Patterns came up as technique for navigating chord changes. Digital patterns are easy to implement and are great for getting the sound of individual chords and chord progressions in your ear. They're also good technical studies. What's a Digital Pattern? What if I'm confronted with chords of the minor family? Click for Exercise 1. One of the best p...
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Resources - Uke-4-Fun in Minnesota
http://www.bluegrassfun.com/resources.html
Why I Like Playing My Uke. Twin Cities Uke Club. TC Uke Club Photos. 1, 4, 5 and Chords. 2017 Great Minnesota Uke Gathering. Site Info and Pics. Learn to Play Uke! 2014 GMUG - History and Photos. Here are some of my favorite resources for picking and singing. I am very much a buy locally guy, but there are just some times you can not get what you want from your favorite locally owned store. So, here are a few of my favorite sites here and elsewhere in the good old USA. For All Things Ukulele. Minnesota B...
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The Barley Jacks - Bio
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Learn how to get your music noticed at ReverbNation.com. Acoustic Alchemy and Fiddle Wizardry. Is the interaction of forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual parts. an apt description for The Barley Jacks. Published by Mel Bay with over 100,000 copies sold. He teaches fiddle and mandolin at camps throughout the US, UK, Canada and Sweden. He hosts his summer, week-long Fiddle Pal Camps in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Massachusetts and has begun a new, online fid...Minne...
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Mike Cramer's Blog: October 2009
http://mikesblog.all12notes.com/2009_10_01_archive.html
Music and Guitar related stuff. One String Pentatonic Scales. Posted by Mike Cramer. Pentatonic scales are 5 note scales that should be in every guitar player's vocabulary. The two most common pentatonic scales are the major and minor variety. However, any combination of 5 notes could be considered a pentatonic scale. Guitar players often learn pentatonic box shapes. These shapes are incredibly useful and easy to learn, but one problem many guitarists face is getting stuck. One String Pentatonic Scales.
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Mike Cramer's Blog: Sus 2 and Sus 4 Chords for Guitar
http://mikesblog.all12notes.com/2009/10/sus-2-and-sus-4-chords-for-guitar.html
Music and Guitar related stuff. Sus 2 and Sus 4 Chords for Guitar. Posted by Mike Cramer. If you've ever found yourself searching for a way to harmonically spice up your folk and pop based tunes then check out Sus2 and Sus4 chords. They are versatile, easy to play, and harmonically satisfying. What are Sus2 and Sus4 Chords? Playing Sus Chords on the Guitar. The easiest way to learn sus voicings is by altering your triad voicings. For a usesful reference sheet on triads visit my post on triads.
