This course is for beginners with no previous experience with piano accompaniment. No music reading ability is needed. However experienced players in other styles of piano music can benefit as well as those new to playing piano. A piano or keyboard is required. A practice CD is included so that you can play along on your keyboard with the fiddler on the CD. Ryan demonstrates playing techniques used to accompany a melody instrument such as a fiddle playing a 4/4 reel in the common key of D.
Topics include: major scale, constructing chords, chord inversions, right and left hand patterns, rhythms, walking bass lines, syncopation, and fingerings. The techniques can be used for fiddle styles including contra and square dancing, Irish and Scottish ceili, fiddle contests, and jam sessions. The DVD is 62 minutes. DVD ISBN 0-931877-50-4
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A very useful accessory to this video is The Chord Encycyclopedia for 1400 Fiddle Tunes and Country Dance Melodies. which you can use to practice your chord progressions and familiarize yourself with commonly played fiddle tunes.