"A Fiddle Player's Guide to Jamming"

by

Carl Yaffey and John Sherman

© 2006 BY MEL BAY PUBLICATIONS, INC. PACIFIC, MO 63069

Available from your favorite music store.

Contents

Preface

About the CD

Acknowledgements

Anatomy of a Jam Session

Chords and Keys for Jamming

Bluegrass Rhythm

What Can I Bring to the Jam?

Laying Back

Percussive Vamping

Percussive Vamping With Bounce

Rhythmic Chordal Vamping

Melodic Fills

Playing a Parallel Harmony Line

Taking a Solo

Index of Double Stop Chords For Vamping

Participating in a Jam Session

Jamming Etiquette

About the CD

Appendix 1 - Some Typical GuitarChords

Appendix 2 - Resources

Appendix 3 - Some Rules for Jamming

Appendix 4 - CD Tunes:

Hot Corn, Cold Corn

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

Nine Pound Hammer

John Henry

Two Little Boys

Columbus Stockade Blues

Down the Road

Little Maggie

John Hardy