Texas and Swing Fiddle
HOMESPUN

From Traditional Tunes to Jazz Standards

Taught By Matt Glaser.
Level 3
Six CDs plus Music Book
With Molly Mason, rhythm guitar

These lessons will expand your repertoire along with your skills and knowledge of the fiddle. Starting with old-time Texas fiddling, you'll progress through modern Texas, Western Swing and jazz soloing. Matt Glaser carefully breaks down all the tunes and analyzes the styles of Benny Thomasson, Bob Wills, Vassar Clements, Mark O'Connor, Stephane Grappelli, Joe Venuti and Eddie South. Before long, you'll be improvising jazz and swing solos like those performed by these great pioneering artists.

These CD lessons will help you develop strong technical skills. You'll learn the secrets of back-up fiddle, how to improvise over chord changes, play tricky cross-bowing passages and lots more, including detailed instruction on how to play more than twenty great songs. These include:

"Sally Goodin," "Salt River," "Leather Britches," "Billy in the Lowground," "Sally Johnson," "I Don't Love Nobody," "Texas Waltz," "Maiden's Prayer," "Corrina, Corrina," "Lady Be Good," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Forked Deer," "Dusty Miller," "Cotton Patch Rag," "Beaumont Rag," "Milk Cow Blues," "Panhandle Rag," "Faded Love," and more!

About Matt Glaser
Matt Glaser has been chairman of the String Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for 18 years. He has performed widely in a variety of idioms with artists such as Stephane Grappelli, David Grisman, Lee Konitz, the Waverly Consort, Fiddle Fever, and most recently with Wayfaring Strangers--a band that fuses jazz and folk music. He has published four books on contemporary violin styles including "Jazz Violin" co-authored with the late Stephane Grappelli, and has written for many music magazines including Strings, Acoustic Musician, and Acoustic Guitar.
Matt has performed at the White House, and at Carnegie Hall with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor as part of Stephane Grappelli's 80th birthday concert. He has taught at the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp, University of Miami, American String Teacher Association conferences, International Association of Jazz Educator conferences, and many others.

"Possibly America's most versatile violinist." -- The Boston Herald