Darol Anger's School Of Fiddle

Darol Anger's School Of Fiddle Darol's Artistworks Fiddle School is a place where we fiddlers have fun working on our fiddling!

02/09/2026
TO ALL YOU FIDDLERS:A CHOPPING SURVEY....Darol here. Hoping your fiddling trajectory is mostly up!I’ve got a request for...
02/03/2026

TO ALL YOU FIDDLERS:
A CHOPPING SURVEY....
Darol here. Hoping your fiddling trajectory is mostly up!
I’ve got a request for all you fiddlers who either chop a lot, or sometimes, or maybe have thought about it occasionally.

My fiddling friends Casey Driessen, Tracy Silverman and I are curious about the current state of chopping in our vast community of fiddlers, violists, and cellists of all musical genres.

Who’s chopping, how much, and is it a useful technique for you? Has it worked out? Do you hate it? is it irrelevant to your Grand Mission? Those kinds of questions. Filling in your name is optional, but Casey sez we’ll need your email.

We’ll be presenting our results (ANONYMIZED, OF COURSE!) at the 24th annual American String Teachers’ Conference in San Francisco in late February, so we would love to get your info compiled buy Feb. 20 ! Please try to get this done this week! Preferably tonight! How well we know how these kinds of tasks can get away from us in the hurly-burly action-packed world of String playing.

We would SO appreciate it if you would fill out this chop survey! We will share the general results publicly on each of our websites after we present a synopsis at the Conference.

Here’s the URL which will allow you to fill it out online.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdO_L5FDoN7iSR449jpgHeJdWWQpaawsnrO7LlqK6MWpt4msg/viewform
Casey Tracy, and Darol-acey THANK YOU!

In 1966, while playing with Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys, violinist/fiddler Richard Greene placed his bow on the strings in a new way that would become the basis for the technique known as chopping. Since then, the chop has traveled around the world more than a time or two, traversing styles and...

02/01/2026

The celebrated Mixolydian Scaleggio! Good for New-Agey Jazz and general woo-woo rock stuff. Also hard-ass Bluegrass Licks.... go figure. Check out my Artistworks School Of Fiddle for way more of this kind of thing, at Artistworks-dot-com, etc.

01/20/2026

Ralph Towner, 1940-2026

Ralph Towner, guitarist of unique sensibility, writer of highly original compositions, and an ECM artist for more than fifty years, has died, aged 85.

Towner, who once described himself as an improvising “raconteur of the abstract” was born into a musical family in the small town of Chehalis, Washington. He started playing music at the age of 6, developing into a young multi-instrumentalist adept at trumpet, french horn and piano. He was 22 before he took up the classical guitar, heading to Vienna to study with Karl Scheit, immersing himself in transcriptions of renaissance lute music, and practising every waking hour.

Many jazz listeners first encountered Towner on Weather Report’s 1972 album I Sing The Body Electric, where his harmonically-free 12-string guitar introduction to Wayne Shorter’s “The Moors” was a revelation. In the same period, Ralph met Manfred Eicher in New York – Dave Holland made the introductions – and the stage was set for half a century of creative collaboration at ECM and a lifelong friendship…

Read the full text on the ECM website: https://ecmrecords.com/ralph-towner-1940-2026/

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Since 2011, renowned fiddler Darol Anger has run a far-ranging and beloved online School Of Fiddling in partnership with Artistworks.com. Besides the hundred...

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