Cajun & Creole Blues accordion cajun & creole blues cajun and creole cajun blues cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Apr 13, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…welcome to my vlog! And my vlog this week is on Creole and Cajun blueses. Really old-timey blueses going back to maybe the 1920s, 30s, played by Dennis McGee and by Douglas Bellard, people like that.

So the first one I was going to play was a blues that I heard...

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Saute Crapaud and Cajun Jigs accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun tuning fiddle lessons saute crapaud and cajun jigs st. patricks day traditional tune Mar 01, 2017

Hi, I'm Mitch Reed, and welcome to my vlog. It is the 1st of March, and I am thinking about St. Patrick's Day already. And I thought this would be fun to maybe play one of the few Cajun jigs that we have. A jig is a type of dance tune that's in six-eight. we have one in Cajun music and it's...

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Seconding at a Cajun Jam accordion bowing c accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun jam cajun music cajun tuning fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana occasional blues seconding at a cajun jam two step cajun Jan 20, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, welcome to my vlog. Today I’m going to talk about going to a jam and being able to bring your fiddle and play chords behind the accordion, the singer, and all that stuff. So basically, how to second at a Cajun jam, the things to think about, and what to look for....

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Double-Time Bowing accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun waltz double time bowing double-time bowing fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag old time cajun Dec 30, 2016

Hi, today on my vlog I’m going to talk about double bowing for Cajun waltzes. What I mean by that is using this rhythm [00:10]. I’ll slow it down a little bit [00:18]

So some of the old-time tunes that were recorded like in the ’30s and the ’20s, some of the fiddlers used...

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Ornamentation in Cajun & Creole Music accordion appalachian fiddling cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag ornamentation in cajun & creole music scotch irish fiddling Jun 17, 2016

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed and welcome to my vlog. Today I’m going to talk about ornamentation in Cajun music. So, the decoration that you add to a tune once you’ve learned the notes. So you can take a tune that’s real simple, maybe we’ll do that, we’ll take… I...

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Top 10 Cajun Albums accordion adam and cyprien landreneau adam hebert beau solo bois sec cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music canray fontenot dennis mcgee dewey balfa dl menard fiddle lessons marc savoy top 10 cajun albums wade frugé May 13, 2016

Hey! How’s it going today? I’m Mitch Reed and I thought it would be fun to talk today about the top ten Cajun records that have really influenced me on the fiddle. These are the top ten recordings that I have found a lot of inspiration to listen to and that I feel that helped me...

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Chords! Chords! Chords! accordion begonner fiddle bowing cajun and creole cajun fiddle chords! chords! chords! contradances fiddle lessons reels two step wade frugé Apr 09, 2016

Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I’m going to talk about chords again. A lot of people have been asking me (now that I’m posting a lot of tunes, and breaking a lot of tunes down). It’s like “What are the chords? What do you do with the chords? How do you figure out the...

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The Mardi Gras Songs accordion balfa brothers beausoleil cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music creole mardi gras fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag mamou mardi gras the mardi gras songs wade frugé west louisiana Apr 08, 2016

 

Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I thought it would be kind of fun to talk about the three different Mardi Gras songs that you’ll hear played on the fiddle and the accordion as well. If you come down here to South-West Louisiana, especially for Mardi Gras Day and the weeks leading up...

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Creole Cello accordion bass cajun and creolecajun cajun fiddle classical music creole cello fiddle lessons freeman fontenot lafayett pinsacatta Apr 05, 2016

Hi, welcome to my vlog today…and today I’m talking about playing Cajun and Creole music on different instruments. So this was actually the first instrument that I learned to play when I was a kid. It’s called a cello and it’s a big violin basically. But recently...

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Cajun Jamming, Part 2 accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun jam cajun jamming cajun jamming part 2 fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Apr 03, 2016

 Hi! I’m Mitch Reed. Welcome to my fiddle vlog and today I was going to talk a little bit about chords, what chords are good to learn first, and also how you can apply them when you go to a jam session. So this is a good video for someone who’s just starting out on the...

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