Mel Bay A Fiddle Player's Guide To Jamming - Yaffey/Sherman - Book/Audio Online

Authors: Carl Yaffey and John Sherman
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Fiddle

This book presents everything a beginning or intermediate fiddler player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe the anatomy of a jam session, jam session etiquette, chords and keys for jamming, and vamping. A play-along online audio recording download is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel, and once in stereo.

Contents:

• Anatomy of a Jam Session
• Chords and Keys for Jamming
• Bluegrass Rhythm
• What Can I Bring to the Jam?
• Laying Back
• Percussive Vamping
• Percussive Vamping with Bounce
• Rhythmic Chordal Vamping
• Melodic Fills
• Playing a Parallel Harmony Line
• Taking a Solo
• Index of Double Stop Chords for Vamping
• Participating in a Jam Session
• Jamming Etiquette
• Appendix 1 - Some Typical Guitar Chords
• Appendix 2 - Resources
• Appendix 3 - Some Rules for Jamming
• Appendix 4 - CD Tunes
• Tunes
  • Hot Corn, Cold Corn
  • Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • John Henry
  • Two Little Boys
  • Columbus Stockade Blues
  • Down the Road
  • Little Maggie
  • John Hardy