Aerobics for Fiddlers - Softcover

Carol Ann Wheeler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786600004 ISBN 13: 9780786600007

Publisher: Mel Bay Pubns, 1994

Synopsis

A fast and fun way to get in shape and stay in shape on your fiddle! Written by champion fiddler Carol Ann Wheeler, Aerobics for Fiddlers contains well-thought-out exercises dealing with dexterity, vibrato, loosening and strengthening the wrist, plus techniques such as double-stops, turn-arounds, chromatics, etc. If you are serious about improving your tunes this is for you! Aerobics for Fiddlers is a proven method for developing quality sound and great facility. The exercises are designed especially to help players improve on the skills and licks used by fiddlers, and are different from violin exercise methods.

About this title

About the Author:

For over 20 years, Carol Ann Wheeler has been active as a violin soloist, orchestral player, and string teacher in public and private schools. Since 1974 she has produced five fiddle albums and has been a contest fiddle participant and judge, as well as a fiddle workshop teacher. She performed for ten years through Young Audiences of Oregon and Washington, and has traveled and performed in Japan, Canada, and Scotland, as well as in the U.S. Ms. Wheeler has helped perpetuate the fiddle tradition by teaching and performing before thousands. She and her students have won fiddle contests numerous times at the state, regional, and national levels. She taught her own two children to play fiddle at an early age. Both became champion fiddlers and between them they have filled their home with over 200 fiddle contest trophies. Ms. Wheeler is known for being an energetic and enthusiastic performer and for teaching not just notes, but technique and style as well. She is thrilled to be able to to reach out and perpetuate the art of old-time fiddling to an even larger scope of people with her books, CDs and videos through Mel Bay Publications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mel Bay Pubns
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0786600004
• ISBN 13: 9780786600007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38