Troubles ’Round My Door

from: Advanced Bluegrass Fiddle with Chad Manning

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Learn fiddle in the styles of Kenny Baker, Stuart Duncan, Vassar Clements, Bobby Hicks, and other bluegrass greats by learning classic tunes, with improvisation exercises and advanced techniques.

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Troubles ’Round My Door

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Troubles ’Round My Door

Vassar Clements’s solo on “Troubles ’Round My Door,” from the Red Allen album Family and Friends, is a great example of his idiosyncratic bluesy fiddling. It’s in the key of B and includes some B minor pentatonic scale lines in different positions as well as some of Vassar’s trademark chromatic licks. Chad walks you through the solo phrase by phrase, and gives you ideas for using some of the positions and shapes Vassar uses to create your own licks.

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