Taught By Vassar Clements.
Level 4
90-minute DVD or VHS,Includes music book

No fiddle player will want to miss this powerful DVD lesson! Vassar Clements’ superb technique and imaginative musical ideas are slowed down and brought up close to help you improve your technique, increase your repertoire and expand your musical horizons.

Vassar explores more than a dozen of his classic licks, showing how he uses slides, chromatics, double and triple-stops, slurs and boogie-woogie patterns to enhance a variety of tunes. You’ll learn some of his best-known original and traditional fiddle breaks and how he uses his earliest influences—blues and jazz—to transform ordinary bluegrass/country fiddle sounds into extraordinary ones.

You’ll learn to play Vassar’s awesome fiddle arrangements for classic tunes such as Avalanche, Good Woman’s Love, Listen to the Mockingbird, Lonesome Fiddle Blues, Windjammer, Orange Blossom Special, Down Yonder and more. Sit in on a conversation with his friend and accompanist Bob Hoban as Vassar reveals some “trade secrets” about pick-ups, bows, rosin, strings and other fascinating topics. He even gives a rare demonstration of flatpicking the fiddle in a blues-style improvisation!

Vassar Clements made his professional debut at the age of 14 playing the Grand Ole Opry with Bill Monroe, with whom he toured and recorded for more than 15 years. He has performed on more than 4,000 recordings with acts as diverse as John Hartford, David Grisman, The Allman Brothers, The Grateful Dead and The Boston Pops. He was a key figure in the classic album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," and received a Grammy nomination for "Together At Last" with jazz great Stephanie Grappelli. Vassar continues to tour and record with his own band and as a feature artist with many other top performers.