Technique Tutorial – Jam and Band Conventions

In this lesson, Megan Lynch Chowning discusses the roles each instrument plays in both a jam and band setting. Would you like to be more at ease in a jam setting? Would you like to know what you’re supposed to do as a fiddler in a band? Learn what your responsibility as a fiddle player is here. We hope you enjoy this excerpt of the course.

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