SUPER ASTA Fiddle Jam SALE! and more...

Hey there Fiddle Jammers! I hope this finds you all well and good and jamming gleefully!! :~))

I thought that you might be interested that I recently posted a notice of a super deep sale for lifetime membership to the Fiddle Jam Institute site, access to 4 courses and digital copies of both my books, see below. I showed my Outlaw Fiddle violins at the recent American String Teacher National Conference in Orlando, Florida with a booth there.

The response from the electric enthusiast portion of the violin community was very positive, with most saying that my patent pending EV3 pickup technology is where the electric violin needs to go next!  …and also echoed my sentiments of “why didn’t we go this way before?”  I have bemoaned that point in other videos, and won’t start ranting here… heck, the whole Fiddle Jam Institute is really about trying to break those old stuck traditions and attitudes! But, hey… I’m just glad to be on this new wave in the development of the violin… and happy that you are also here with me!!

Check out the SUPER ASTA SALE HERE.  It’s a great opportunity to get access to all the 100’s of lessons in the Fiddle jam Library and courses and books… for a limited “fund raising” time, only $99 for all!

 

      

Hey Fiddle Jammers!

Happy New Year!  I hope you all made it through the Holidays unscathed and are jamming joyufully!

Things are still humming along at the Fiddle Jam Institute online school.  The School Store is still open for stand-alone courses.  Check them out!

Most of my efforts currently are going into developing my Outlaw Fiddle electric violin business, and I hope to be showing them at some violin conferences in the coming year.  I have changed the name of FJi’s YouTube channel to reflect this addition from Fiddle Jam Institute to now: Outlaw Fiddle Jam.

I am still doing the weekly live streaming sessions if you are interested, at 6:30pm Wednesdays EST.  Join in!  You can watch these as replays too.

For those interested in gear that is good for electric violin, I am currently selling my Pearse G1 amplifier that I used for 30+ years on 1000’s of gigs.  It has a 12″ speaker and also a 4″ speaker that makes electric violin hi-end sound sweet, but not screach-y.  I’m asking $550 for it.  I have twice that into it.  I have it listed on Reverb.com also, but will be happy to sell it to one of you privately (it would save me about $50 in fees).  I can offer free shipping in the continental US, and am willing to look into shipping elsewhere.  I include the ad text below for you to check out if you are interested.  Just hit me up via email if you’d like more info.

Stay in touch!

Fitz

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Reverb.com ad:

Pearse G1 Guitar Amp late 1980’s. Workhorse 100 watt amp used on 1000’s of gigs, never whimpered once. This was one of the first tube-less amps that sounded the closest to tubes at the time, endorsed by Steve Via, Alan Holdsworth, Les Paul and many others. I worked at the factory in Buffalo, NY as shipping manager and had the electronics guys do all the latest artist mods (EQ and Gain structure).

One knob not original (I stumbled coming home tired from a late gig and banged it into the door jamb). The potentiometer is fine. Tons of design features/options: Dual channel (clean and dirty, or both simultaneously, switchable via footswitch included). FX loops for each individual channel and a master effects loop (pre-amp to power amp). Nice musical sounding limiter. 3 different db input sensitivity settings. Separate inputs for each channel and a combined input. Internal spring reverb tank (lightly foamed to tone it down a bit for my personal preference).

Cabinet is a bit dinged up after 30+ years of steady gigging, but has no rattles. I have it as a closed back cab currently, the open back boards are long gone. I used to run two of these in stereo, one closed back and the other open back, in a Marshall-like stack. I used this amp for electric violin as well as guitar and had a MTX 4″ mid-range “cranker” car stereo speaker also in the cabinet for a little extra sweet high-end for the violin (included, but currently disconnected). Original Fane 12″ speak included also. Padded factory amp cover included. Removable casters.

Great amp. Sad to see it go, but it is time to get it to another good home, as I have moved on to other rigs for my electric violin. I will ship for FREE anywhere in the US.<<::>>

      

Hi Fiddle Jammers!

I just finished the latest of my weekly Fiddle Jam Live streaming sessions on YouTube (Every Wed. 6:30 EST). Go to the Outlaw Fiddle Jam YouTube Channel to find more about that.  This time I got into Boundary Expansion for your playing, talking some about different styles, but more about little things you can “borrow” from styles like Blues and Cajun music that are not really major or minor and sometimes 1/4 steps in-between on certain notes within a scale (not ALL of them!… that would just be OUT OF TUNE! ;~)  Check it out if interested.  The replay should be available any minute now: HERE

I also mentioned/reminded that the big Black Friday Super Sale has only two days left!  $100 to get in on about $1000 worth of material, access, courses, and books!!  It’s a great time to get in the Fiddle Jam Club!  Click on the link below to get more info:

Happy jams!

Fitz

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Hey Fiddle Jam Insider’s!

I hope you are all doing jammingly well.

If you haven’t been following my Fiddle Jam Institute offerings of late, I wanted you to at know that I just started a BIG sale!  I ran this sale once before during the pandemic, but thought it was time to do it again.  Pretty much EVERYTHING I HAVE to offer for one low price!

For ONE week only:

$100 bucks to get everything I’ve currently have to offer! 

Including:

• Lifetime All Access Library Pass (100’s of lessons!)
• All 4 courses: Fiddle Jam 101, Music Mechanics 101, Blues Violin, Bucket List Fiddle Jam.
• Both my books: Fiddle Jam, and Rock n Blues Fiddle Jam A-Toodz
• and two bonuses: 1) the Non-Reader’s Cheater sheet and 2) unreleased to date, my Master Jammer Scale List, which includes access to description and example videos of each scale as well!!

That’s almost a thousand dollars worth of fun stuff!

If you haven’t been following my materials lately, this is a good time to get in!  Click HERE NOW to check it out in detail.

Other Fiddle Jam News:

Weekly Fiddle Jam Live Streaming Sessions on YouTube is something I quietly started doing as an experiment a few months ago.  I’m having fun doing them and it seems to be being received well.  I’m doing them Wednesdays at 6:30pm EST for about 30 minutes, and am covering a variety of topics.  I’ve been trying to split each sessions into two halves as well, first for more beginner players, and later expanding it into more advanced materials.  I’ve created a Playlist within my Outlaw Fiddle Jam YouTube channel (recently name-changed from Fiddle Jam Institute to this to include my electric violin making endeavors) for these live streams.  If interested, check them out HERE.

ALSO:

The Holiday Song Lesson Vault is open for the season!  Each year, I re-open all the timeless classics.  You can get to this seasonal list by clicking on the Holiday Song menu on the Fiddle Jam Institute home page or directly by clicking HERE.

As always, Thanks for your support!

Sincerely,

Fitz

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Hey folks, I hope this finds you all well.

If you are subscribed to my Fiddle Jam Institute YouTube** channel (see below if not), you maybe have seen a notice in your “feed” that I did my first live streaming Fiddle Jam Session test last week, with the intention to do one each Wednesday about the same time.

…well… the best laid plans, sometimes can take unexpected twists and turns if seems.  Yesterday I tested positive for COVID… no worries, I only seem to have had one day of flat out in bed with fever symptoms, and feel that I am on the down-side of it now.  But I did already miss week #2!

Wisdom tells me that I should have 1 or 2 of these sessions pre-recorded and in “the can” for when life throws in a curve ball.  At least I could post those in that case as a default.

I think it’s fun to do them live if possible, and will eventually get the hang of seeing and responding to chat streams if you have questions or comments in real-time, but for now, send me your questions, and wish-list of things you’d like me to cover and I will be happy to do my best to accommodate you!

The general intention I am putting forth, is a more immediate and personalized jam session that we could not fit on the Fiddle Jam Book’s CD, where I spend more time on inner ear and groove training using “call and answer” and slowing down the cool stuff riff by riff so you can develop a useful jamming vocabulary on your fiddle for a featured key each week.  Though, if there is interest, I can do other things too.  One thing that was mentioned to me was breaking down the famous jazz song, “All of Me” into smaller bites that a jazz novice could handle more easily.  I’m open to your suggestions!  What I cover does not HAVE to be the basics.  Any topic is fair game.  Send me your ideas and votes!

Happy Jams!

Fitz

To subscribe to the Fiddle Jam Institute YouTube channel: simply go to ANY of my videos, say… like last week’s live stream session test HERE or below (in case you missed it ;-), and if you are logged in to your YouTube account (it’s free to start one), just click on the SUBSCRIBE button below the video and it will add anything new that I post into a notification for you.  This can come to your email or just show up as a priority in your video list “feed” along with other videos from providers that you might have subscribed to or show interest in.  Pretty easy stuff.  Let me know if you need any help!