HOMESPUN Rhythmic Explorations for Bowed Instruments
Taught By Darol Anger, Casey Driessen, Rushad Eggleston.Level 3
Two hour DVD, includes music
With Darol Anger, Casey Driessen, Rushad Eggleston
“Feel the boogie!” – Rushad
With the help of two of today's hottest young players, veteran violinist Darol Anger shows how you can create infectious, driving rhythms in a wide variety of musical styles. The percussive bowing techniques they teach produce exciting grooves that you’ll be able to use to accompany musical genres from bluegrass to Celtic, swing to ska, Latin to rock and funk. Darol, Casey and Rushad demonstrate each of these styles, sharing their ideas and abundant musicianship with fellow string players at all levels of expertise and ability.
The techniques you’ll learn here - chopping, scraping, bouncing the bow, left hand pizzicato, rolling bass lines and more - allow you to get a variety of “feels” for providing a solid rhythmic groove. At the same time, you’ll learn how to create syncopations by using strong and weak strokes, ghost beats, triplets and other important rhythm devices.
This nearly two-hour DVD will expand all string players’ musical options,
inspiring a wealth of ideas that will enable you to play more roles in different
kinds of contemporary and traditional music.
Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator Darol Anger has performed
in a number of musical styles, from the jazz-oriented Turtle Island String Quartet
to the bluegrass-derived supergroups Psychograss, Newgrange and the David Grisman
Quintet. He has worked with some of the world's great improvising string musicians,
among them Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Béla Fleck, Mike Marshall and Vassar
Clements, and is featured on dozens of critically lauded recordings. His latest,
“Diary of a Fiddler,” features duets with some of the most prominent and innovative
fiddlers of our time.
Darol holds the String Chair of the International Association of Jazz Educators;
has led seminars at the Stanford, Oberlin and Amherst Jazz Worshops; and has
taught at the Berklee College of Music, the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp, and in
workshops from Brazil to Germany. He was the recipient of a 1995 California Arts
Council Composer Fellowship, and was nominated in 1997 for the CalArts Alpert
Award in the Arts. Darol has been a featured soloist on a number of motion picture
soundtracks, and was the winner of the Frets Magazine Readers' Poll for Best
Jazz Violinist for four years running.
Casey Driessen is becoming one of the great young fiddlers of his generation.
His father started him in the bluegrass style of fiddling by taking him around
the country to festivals and contests, starting at age 6. Casey has since branched
off to explore jazz, rock, funk, pop, country and other musical genres. With
roots still in the American bluegrass tradition, Casey's playing reflects a deep
sense of rhythm and groove, whatever the style at hand.
A Chicago native now based in Nashville, Casey is currently making appearances
with Tim O'Brien, and with his own group, Wisechild, with Luke Bulla. He has
appeared, both live and on recordings, with Steve Earle, Nickel Creek, John Mayer,
Darrell Scott, Chris Jones, Darol Anger, Judith Edelman, Alison Brown, Robbie
Fulks, John Cowan, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Scott Nygaard. He also shares
his musical experience by teaching at Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp, Bluegrass
Week at Augusta Heritage Camps, and the Haapavesi Music Camp in Finland. Casey
is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Music Production
and Engineering.
The brilliant young cellist Rushad Eggleston is a master of improvisation and fiddle styles on the cello. He was the first string student admitted to Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship. He was a member of the Grammy-nominated group, Fiddlers 4, with Michael Doucet, Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger, and his own group, Wild Band of Snee, is one of the hottest acts in the New York music scene.