How to Play the Fiddle : Making Basic Notes Using Five Note Scale on Arpeggio Exercise on the Fiddle
Learn how to make the basic notes using the basic five note scale on arpeggio exercise on the fiddle with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip for beginners.
Expert: David Kaynor
Contact: www.DavidKaynor.com
Bio: David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley.
Filmmaker: Jay Holzer
Duration : 0:3:5
Cajun Moon
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDIwO8fBlSg&fmt=18
Buck Norris sings Cajun Moon by Ricky Skaggs.
Skaggs began playing music at a very early age, being given a mandolin from his father at the age of five. Before his father had the time to teach Ricky how to play, the child had learned the instrument himself, and by the end of 1959, he had performed on-stage during a Bill Monroe concert, playing “Ruby Are You Mad at Your Man” to great acclaim. Two years later, when Skaggs was seven, he appeared on Flatt & Scruggs’ television show, again to a positive response. Shortly afterward, he learned how to play both fiddle and guitar and began playing with his parents in a group called the Skaggs Family. In addition to traditional bluegrass, Skaggs began absorbing the honky tonk of George Jones and Ray Price and the British Invasion rock & roll of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. In his adolescence, he briefly played in rock & roll bands, but he never truly abandoned traditional and roots music.
During a talent concert in his midteens, he met Keith Whitley, a fellow fiddler. The two adolescents became friends and began playing together, with Whitley’s brother Dwight on banjo, at various radio shows. By 1970, they earned a spot opening for Ralph Stanley. Following their performance, Stanley invited the duo to join his supporting band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, and they accepted. Over the next two years, they played many concerts with the bluegrass legend and appeared on his record Cry From the Cross. Skaggs also appeared on Whitley’s solo album Second Generation Bluegrass in 1972.
Though he had made his way into the bluegrass circuit and was actively recording, Skaggs had grown tired of the hard work and low pay in the Clinch Mountain Boys and left the group at the end of 1972. For a short while, he abandoned music and worked in a boiler room for the Virginia Electric Power Company in Washington, D.C., but he returned to performing when the Country Gentlemen invited him to join in 1973. Skaggs spent the next two years with the group, primarily playing fiddle, before joining the progressive bluegrass band J.D. Crowe & the New South in 1974. The following year, he recorded another duet album with Whitley, That’s It, and then formed his own newgrass band, Boone Creek, in 1976. In addition to bluegrass, the outfit played honky tonk and Western swing. Boone Creek earned the attention of Emmylou Harris, who invited Skaggs to join her supporting band. After declining her several times, he finally became a member of her Hot Band once Rodney Crowell left in 1977.
Between 1977 and 1980, Skaggs helped push Harris toward traditional country and bluegrass, often to great acclaim. Skaggs also pursued a number of other musical venues while he was with Harris, recording a final album with Boone Creek (1978′s One Way Track), two duet albums with Tony Rice (1978′s Take Me Home Tonight in a Song, 1980′s Skaggs & Rice), and finally, his first solo album, Sweet Temptation, which was released on Sugar Hill. Sweet Temptation was a major bluegrass hit, earning the attention of the major label Epic Records. The label offered him a contract in 1981, releasing Waitin’ for the Sun to Shine later that year. The album was a big hit, earning acclaim not only in country circles, but also in rock & roll publications. By the end of the year, Skaggs had become a star and, in the process, brought rootsy traditional country back into the consciousness of the country audience.
During 1982 and early 1983, he had five straight number one singles — “Crying My Heart Out Over You,” “I Don’t Care,” “Heartbroke,” “I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could,” “Highway 40 Blues” — as well as earning numerous awards. Later in 1982, he was made the youngest member of the Grand Ole Opry. For the next four years, he was a major artistic and commercial force within country music, raking up a string of Top Ten hits and Grammy Award-winning albums. His success helped spark the entire new traditionalist movement, opening the doors for performers like George Strait and Randy Travis. Toward the end of the decade, Skaggs wasn’t charting as frequently as he had in the past, but he had established himself as an icon. Each of his records sold well, and he collaborated with a number of musicians, including Rodney Crowell, the Bellamy Brothers, Johnny Cash, Jesse Winchester, and Dolly Parton.
Duration : 0:3:55
Slim's Cyder Co. – Is it Love or Food Poisoning
Live at the Sir Richard Steele
Duration : 2 min 48 sec
Cajun-music by The Balfa Doucet Brothers at Heleneholms Library
This is a performance by a Swedish Cajun-band, Balfa Doucet Brothers, who attends Heleneholms Gymnasium of Music in Malmö.
Fr.L:
Upright Bass: Jean-Henry Blenaird Doucet
Accordion % Vocal: Blanchard Pomee Leger T. Doucet
Slide-guitar & Vocal: Dugas-Allain Poirier Cabri-Cher Doucet
12-stringed Acoustic Guitar: Jean-Marie Bujeau Daigle-LeJeune Doucet
Washboard: Gumbo Savoie Sonnier Doucet
Three-stringed Banjo: Roy-Daigle Tayaut Coo Doucet
Duration : 0:4:53
Cajun Country Driving Tour
Offthetrails explores the backroads of Louisiana’s Cajun Country,
sampling food, and discovering their history. For more,
http://www.offthetrails.com/
Duration : 0:10:0
Jimmy C. Newman “boudin”
Here is a song from Jimmy C.Newman about the cajun boudin (boo-dahn).Traditionally, boudin is a sausage stuffed with pork and rice. Recently, shrimp, crawfish, and alligator have been added to the list of meats used.
Jimmy C. Newman was born and raised in true Cajun style just outside Big Mamou, Louisiana. However, it wasn’t Cajun music but the cowboy music of boyhood hero Gene Autry that got him started singing with bands, traveling through the South and Southwest. Soon, he was host of his own radio show in Lake Charles, Louisiana. That led to membership on the famous Louisiana Hayride radio showcase, to a TV show in Shreveport and to a Dot Records recording contract.
In 1954, Jimmy C. had his first country hit — the plaintive “Cry, Cry Darling,” which he co-wrote. He followed that with the hits “Daydreamin’” and “Blue Darlin’” and won Opry membership in 1956. In 1957, he had his biggest country hit with “A Fallen Star,” which also crossed over to the pop charts.
Then it was time for Jimmy C. to get back to his Cajun roots. He formed his Cajun Country band and was soon playing the music of his native Louisiana to fans around the world. Along the way, he became the only Cajun artist ever to receive a gold record on a Cajun French song. The tune, “Lache Pas La Potate,” earned gold status in Canada in 1976.
Jimmy C. and his band—known for their skilled, high-energy performances—have enjoyed success in Europe since their first appearance in London, England, at the famous Wembley Country Music Festival in 1980.
In 1991, Jimmy C. and Cajun Country earned a Grammy nomination for their Rounder Records album Alligator Man. The next year, Jimmy C. earned a special award from the Cajun French Music Association of South Louisiana for contributions to the promotion of Cajun music worldwide.
In November 1993, Jimmy C. added to his list of television credits with a guest appearance on the CBS Sunday Night Movie Conviction, playing and singing traditional Cajun music.
On March 12, 2000, Jimmy C. was inducted into the North American Country Music Association’s International Hall of Fame; that award hangs on the wall alongside his induction into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame in Lafayette, Louisiana. Jimmy was inducted into the Cajun Hall of Fame in October 2004. For all that acclaim, he’s equally proud of his induction into the Fred’s Lounge “Wall of Fame” in his hometown.
The proud Cajun credits his band for much of his unique sound. With Bessyl Duhon on Cajun accordion and some of the best musicians in Music City, the group treats audiences to such high-spirited favorites as “Jole Blon,” “Jambalaya,” and “Diggy Liggy Lo.”
Jimmy C. and wife Mae continue to make their home on their 670-acre Singing Hills Ranch in Rutherford County, Tennessee, just a short drive from Music City and the Grand Ole Opry.
Duration : 0:3:22
