Vassar Clements

A 90 minute video taught by Vassar Clements. No fiddle player will want to miss this! Vassar Clements' superb technique and imaginative musical ideas are slowed down and brought up close in this powerful video lesson. This tape will improve your technique, enhance 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.

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!

Avalanche
Good Woman's Love
Listen To The Mockingbird
Lonesome Fiddle Blues (The Devil Went Down To Georgia)
Windjammer
Orange Blossom Special
Down Yonder