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Austin Scelzo
United States
Приєднався 12 гру 2008
Musician. Educator. Austinscelzo.com
Bluegrass Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals, Multi Style-School Music Teacher Resources
School Teacher turned Music Entrepreneur!
My eclectic background in classical, folk, and jazz styles lends me a wide variety of opportunities for teaching and performing.
I teach privately, in person or virtually, offer a online courses in creative string playing, harmony vocals, and country/bluegrass fiddle, and host Wernick Method group jam classes designed to get folks playing together right away. Click here to read all about my teaching services and pricing.
With my public school experience, I also offer teacher training/coaching and residencies designed to help students and teachers infuse creativity into their musicianship.
Bluegrass Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals, Multi Style-School Music Teacher Resources
School Teacher turned Music Entrepreneur!
My eclectic background in classical, folk, and jazz styles lends me a wide variety of opportunities for teaching and performing.
I teach privately, in person or virtually, offer a online courses in creative string playing, harmony vocals, and country/bluegrass fiddle, and host Wernick Method group jam classes designed to get folks playing together right away. Click here to read all about my teaching services and pricing.
With my public school experience, I also offer teacher training/coaching and residencies designed to help students and teachers infuse creativity into their musicianship.
2024 Old Time Rollick at Ashokan
Old Time Rollick 2024 Fri Jun 7 - Sun Jun 9
Emily Schaad hosts this rollicking weekend for musicians and dancers of all levels. Enjoy fiddle, banjo, guitar, flatfooting, and singing classes, plus special one-off presentations, a staff concert, and a Saturday night square dance. Deepen your playing, build your repertoire, make new friends, and jam until the wee hours.
This year’s phenomenal staff includes Jake Blount, Emily Eagan, Becky Hill, Becca Wintle, Brian Slattery, Eli Hetko, Wayne Fugate, your host Emily Schaad, and friendly jambassadors Austin Scelzo, Huck Trisch, Tyler Dezago, and Geoff & Sarah Harden!
Open to all folks, all ages, all orientations. Come join the OT Rollick family at Ashokan!
This year’s class descriptions are here!
“The staff are amazing - so welcoming and accessible. The other musicians are also so supportive and friendly. It’s wonderful how quickly a sense of community is created.”
“Lovely people who clearly are committed to inclusion, great conversations, and safe space for creative risk.”
“Emily broke her tunes down so clearly!! loved it!”
“You’ll never know how much this weekend meant musically and socially. Thank you!”
Emily Schaad hosts this rollicking weekend for musicians and dancers of all levels. Enjoy fiddle, banjo, guitar, flatfooting, and singing classes, plus special one-off presentations, a staff concert, and a Saturday night square dance. Deepen your playing, build your repertoire, make new friends, and jam until the wee hours.
This year’s phenomenal staff includes Jake Blount, Emily Eagan, Becky Hill, Becca Wintle, Brian Slattery, Eli Hetko, Wayne Fugate, your host Emily Schaad, and friendly jambassadors Austin Scelzo, Huck Trisch, Tyler Dezago, and Geoff & Sarah Harden!
Open to all folks, all ages, all orientations. Come join the OT Rollick family at Ashokan!
This year’s class descriptions are here!
“The staff are amazing - so welcoming and accessible. The other musicians are also so supportive and friendly. It’s wonderful how quickly a sense of community is created.”
“Lovely people who clearly are committed to inclusion, great conversations, and safe space for creative risk.”
“Emily broke her tunes down so clearly!! loved it!”
“You’ll never know how much this weekend meant musically and socially. Thank you!”
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How to Take a Solo without Knowing the Melody
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What do you do when you're asked to take a solo but you don't know the melody? This lesson will share a step by step approach to building confidence in this common scenario. Using the building blocks for improvisation and melody construction combined with knowledge of phrasing and song form, you will be guided along this method on common standards like "Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms", "I'll Fly ...
How to Learn a Fiddle Tune by Ear for Mandolin
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An excerpt from my Bluegrass Country and Roots Online School Austinscelzo.com/bluegrass
Opening Waltz Lana and Austin
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A waltz written by our friend Sami Braman off of her solo album "Riveter" @samibraman4202 We met in Nashville for the Leadership Bluegrass conference in 2023. She plays in a group called "The Onlies" and released this tune on her first solo record. She wrote it as a teenager and describes it as her "Angsty Teenage tune"!
What is a 7 chord? 4 types explained - Major, minor, Dominant, Diminished
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What is a 7 chord? What are they used for? There are four types of 7 chords, and assumptions that are made when we see or hear "7" next to a chord. This is an instructional snip it of my Bluegrass, Country, and Roots School AustinScelzo.com/bluegrass
Shuffle Bowing and Chopping Rhythm on the Fiddle warm up
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Shuffle Bowing and Chopping Rhythm on the Fiddle warm up
Keeping the Cats Happy Lana and Austin
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A tune we learned from Brittany Haas and Lene Jonsson's duo record.
Why I Love Bluegrass Music
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A snip it of my CT Gov Arts Hero awards Interview on what drew me to Bluegrass music.
Second Fiddle Blues - live at the Ashokan Center
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Second Fiddle Blues - live at the Ashokan Center
Intro to Swing Fiddle Bye Bye Blues
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Intro to Swing Fiddle Bye Bye Blues
How to take a Simple Melody and Make it Sound Bluegrassy for Mandolin
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How to take a Simple Melody and Make it Sound Bluegrassy for Mandolin
Fiddle Heaven - Winter Retreat for Fiddlers with Austin Scelzo
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Fiddle Heaven - Winter Retreat for Fiddlers with Austin Scelzo
Interview with Austin Scelzo - Deano Graham Grass Wagon Revival
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Interview with Austin Scelzo - Deano Graham Grass Wagon Revival
Toy Heart - Austin Scelzo and Charlie Jack Fuertsch
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Toy Heart - Austin Scelzo and Charlie Jack Fuertsch
How to Get Better at Bluegrass - Use this Playlist to Learn to Jam
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How to Get Better at Bluegrass - Use this Playlist to Learn to Jam
Ashokan Farewell at Bluegrass Week @AshokanCenter
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Ashokan Farewell at Bluegrass Week @AshokanCenter
How To Take a Simple Melody and Make it Sound Bluegrassy for Fiddle
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How To Take a Simple Melody and Make it Sound Bluegrassy for Fiddle
Austin Scelzo Bio - Mentor of the Year Nominee 2023
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Austin Scelzo Bio - Mentor of the Year Nominee 2023
Tennessee Waltz Porch Jam! April Verch Austin Scelzo Twin Fiddle
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Tennessee Waltz Porch Jam! April Verch Austin Scelzo Twin Fiddle
My Baby's Gone - Louvin Brother's Cover Featuring Vickie Vaughn
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My Baby's Gone - Louvin Brother's Cover Featuring Vickie Vaughn
Steve Mandell Memorial Music Scholarship
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Steve Mandell Memorial Music Scholarship
Easy Country Fiddle Warm Up Pentatonic, Double Stops, Suspensions
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Easy Country Fiddle Warm Up Pentatonic, Double Stops, Suspensions
Tips to Learning New Songs and Vocal Harmony
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Tips to Learning New Songs and Vocal Harmony
How to develop musical "Language" and "Vocabulary"
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How to develop musical "Language" and "Vocabulary"
Having Fun with Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar - Three Advanced Techniques
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Having Fun with Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar - Three Advanced Techniques
Bluegrass in the Schools - Leadership Bluegrass Presentation
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Bluegrass in the Schools - Leadership Bluegrass Presentation
Three Easy Bluegrass Fiddle Licks over the 1, 4, and 5 chord
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Three Easy Bluegrass Fiddle Licks over the 1, 4, and 5 chord
Fiddle and Mandolin Teachers I Recommend and their Classes at Fiddle Hell Online
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Fiddle and Mandolin Teachers I Recommend and their Classes at Fiddle Hell Online
This is awesome, Austin! Thank you so much. I am a classical violinist just trying to learn to play bluegrass. This video is so helpful! For me the hardest part on the shuffles and bow patterns is getting them to sound bluegrass vs classical. It's in where the accents lie and that's hard for me. Any suggestions on getting those accents to sound more natural? Can't wait to work with more of your videos1
Very clear teaching, thank you
Brilliant, thank you. This is the mussing link I have been looking for, hooray!
For me it would really help if you would show where you are putting your fingers.
I started off ok, but after 4 minutes it was waaay too hard. Maybe you didn't need to vary the note order so quickly. Without music to follow that made it very tricky
do you think they will ever make an acceptable windows interface?
Thank you so much for tutorial ..👍
Thanks for this. Things I know but I find it valuable to just hear someone else explain through it for a new angle
Thank you!
Hey, thanks for this. A great rhythm guitarist I play with insists that the loud note is the boom and the soft note is the chuck to make room for the mandolin chop on the off beat. What do you think?
There are a lot of different approaches but I don't hear that one as often
You look like the guy who played Hamilton in this
Haha believe it or not I get that all the time xD
I love when you do the echo exercise!
Thank you very much for this. I got an idea how to play the violin with the chords. Always watching your video 😍☺️❤
I really appreciate that for this awesome tutorial
Youre amazing ty. I learned so much
You make it look easy
Like the rationale, the pause, and the overall presentation, as if; let's THINK this through together, at a leisure pace that helps understanding, and retention!
Very useful stuff , thank you so much ❤
Well done. Thank you!
Re record. With kicking up the sound a notch
Great playing Austin! Do you offer on line training in playing the fiddle? If so please forward full details. Thank you, Raymond Guy
Absolutely! Here is a list of all my educational resources www.austinscelzo.com/education The Bluegrass Country and Roots school is a weekly fiddle class on tuesdays- It will continue until the end of June (I take the summer off) There are tons of other resources on my website- check them out!
Im constantly coming back to this video! Love it 😍
Thanks! So glad you are finding it helpful!!
Absolutely love your videos, Austin. My favourite part is the call and response. I never know what to do on my own, and being able to mimic you is not only training my ear to know where my fingers are going, but it's giving me the much needed ideas on how to play around with the scales. Love it.
Fantastic! I'm so glad you found these videos helpful :)
Go glacially slow first….thru each key…then faster? 🙏🏻
That's it! I usually practice difficult licks along with this relatively slow playlist: www.austinscelzo.com/post/how-to-practice-creatively
Great sound all around?❤❤Ty!
Hi … thanks for this video. I went to your website and am interesting in getting this “Roadmap to Country and Bluegrass Mandolin” but the video is for a fiddle course. Would I be getting mandolin or fiddle instruction?
Hi there! Glad you found it helpful- the roadmap to mandolin mastery is similar to fiddle with some crossover but different materials. The mandolin map comes with tab and video instruction for mandolin instruction. Thanks for letting me know about the video problem! I will check that out
Some good ideas for me there. I'm always trying to think what to play during vocals on mandolin rather than strumming/chopping along. Thank you!
Great tutorial
❤🎉
my left ear loved this video
Great fiddle playing love the Darius Rucker song I want to learn. You’re a good teacher could listen to you all day. Thanks
Thank you for this lesson. Just subbed😊
Thanks Austin, so helpful. Question: what's the best way to memorize those patterns for a jam? Lets say the song is Your Love is like a Flower in A. Right now, I go kinda blank after I play the melody.....because I can't recall fast enough the shapes for each chord. Suggestions? thank :-)
Sure! There are only 4 ways to play this pattern, starting on each finger. I have them written out here in order of difficulty- www.austinscelzo.com/sheetmusic (non-traditional notation is to come...) It will take some practice though. I suggest practicing in keys that allow you to work on these symmetrically - (using the same finger pattern for the 1, 4 and 5 chord) Those would be the keys of D, E, F, and G. If this doesn't make sense- consider dropping in on my weekly fiddle zooms- this is what we work on together! Austinscelzo.com/bluegrass
@@AustinScelzo Thank dearly! Yes, I think i'll try joining your zoom one day :-)
Two of my favorite fiddlers!
Swingin'! More please :-)
Love this keep them coming!!!
Thanks Kera!! It's a win win- helps me keep track of the licks that inspire me too!
Are all the licks ending on the 1 note of the chord?
It's beautiful!!
so glad I stumbled down the rabbit hole and found this video. You've explained things that things I've been working on for a long time so clearly that they now make sense. So many folks just do "licks" but I love how you incorporate them into a song and show so many techniques for that one tune. Great Job!! Thanks so much!
I'm so pleased you found it helpful!
You’re very good but the “Ready to Learn Some Country Fiddle?” In such a refined way had me laughing.
Hahaha thank you it was actually originally a lesson for my 7th grade orchestra students during the pandemic- I made it public on UA-cam after my music biz coach said it might appeal to more folks out there in the Internet!
Excellent rundown of learning by ear! What is that browser extension? Transpose? Is that for FIrefox?
Thank you! I answer these questions in this video: ua-cam.com/video/6bKvBTDSsic/v-deo.htmlsi=eOBpuVFLl2txkA1c
Beautiful. Need to get a recording of this.
NICE
Absolutely divine!
Wow! So inspiring! ❤