Product Details

• Actors: Vassar Clements
• Directors: Happy Traum
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Homespun Tapes
• DVD Release Date: June 3, 2005
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009WSO9S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,812 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

No fiddle player will want to miss this powerful DVD lesson! Vassar Clements’ superb technique and imaginative musical ideas are slowed down and brought up close to help you improve your technique, increase 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.

You’ll learn to play Vassar’s awesome fiddle arrangements for classic tunes such as Avalanche, Good Woman’s Love, Listen to the Mockingbird, Lonesome Fiddle Blues, Windjammer, Orange Blossom Special, Down Yonder and more. 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!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Words of Wisdom from a Master Fiddler, June 27, 2009

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E. McCabe "mccab42" (Corona, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DVD-The Fiddle According To Vassar (DVD)

What a great way to learn from a master. This DVD was filmed in a casual conversational manner. It's like sitting in on a chat between two musicians. Vassar learned fiddle like players of decades past...by listening. Here's a great opportunity to listen and emulate. Though the DVD comes with sheet music resist the temptation to use it. Tune your ears and watch the fingerboard, you'll be glad you did.

5.0 out of 5 stars "Vassar", February 2, 2009

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Harley Morris (Riverside area of California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DVD-The Fiddle According To Vassar (DVD)

I found this a really great item. People can learn alot from this outstanding fiddler!
I highly recommend this item.