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Jim Releases ACUTAB Instructional DVD!!
Jim Van Cleve - Become A More Compete Fiddler
Unlock the secrets of improvising in traditional American fiddle styles. 4 hours on 2 DVDs - with printed booklet.
It marks the first instructional project for this Grammy-nominated musician, one of Nashville's most celebrated fiddlers, and a driving force behind bluegrass supergroup Mountain Heart. Van Cleve also performs regularly with guitar legend Tony Rice, and has toured in 2009 with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The Jim Van Cleve DVD is being marketed and promoted now online (YouTube, Google, Facebook, Strings, The Bluegrass Blog, The Fiddle Hangout,) and in selected print publications. Your customers will be looking for this DVD. If they play or study the violin and have an interest in traditional fiddle music, it will surely have an immediate appeal.
Jim wanted to do more than just teach some of his favorite tunes - though that is also included - so the largest part of this better than four hour presentation focuses on a topic of interest to fiddlers at any level... how to create effective solos based around the melody in different keys.
After some discussion about early learning experiences, AcuTab's John Lawless leads Jim through a discussion on improvising and building solos on a number of popular jam session standards. Two songs, Banks Of The Ohio and Pretty Polly, are each played with a band and then slowly demonstrated in 3 different keys.
For newer players, these demonstrations will help open your eyes - and ears - to playing a melody in different keys, while more experienced fiddlers will gain insight from the many examples Jim shows. Especially useful is Jim's explanation of the differing note choices you would make for a song in a diatonic major key, versus one in a Dorian, "mountain modal" style.
He doesn't ignore his own music though. Jim carefully teaches fours songs he has recorded - three of his own (Nature Of The Beast, Devil's Courthouse and #6 Barn Dance) plus Bill Monroe's classic Wheel Hoss. After being slowly demonstrated lick-by-lick, they are each shown (fast and slow) in a split screen orientation. A printed booklet with standard notation for each of these songs is also included.
Jim has been recognized since he first emerged on the scene in the 1990s as one of the more technically versatile fiddlers in bluegrass and acoustic music. What he has to say in this new DVD about tone, technique, practicing and improvising will offer tremendous value to anyone who wants to, well... Become A More Complete Fiddler.
The 2-DVD set and booklet carries a retail price of $50 (USD). Buy from this site and shipping is included in the price.
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In only ten years as a professional musician, Jim Van Cleve has made quite a name for himself in bluegrass and acoustic music. He's spent time with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, saw his debut solo CD nominated for a Grammy and toured all over the world with Mountain Heart. He's become a sought-after Nashville session player and one of the most admired fiddlers in bluegrass.