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Fiddle Hangout Email News, #33
In this issue...
+ Learn for Less! Fiddle for the Absolute Beginner
+ Win Song Surgeon Software!
+ Popular Forum Topics
+ DrBanjo.com DVD Winners
Click to enlarge From now on each of these newsletters will feature a particular video on sale at a good discount in the Fiddle Hangout Video Lessons Catalog. I have to negotiate those discounts with the publishers, so please do take advantage of the offers! See our first below - "Fiddle for the Absolute Beginner."

Did you know these videos can now be watched on your smartphone or tablet? What a powerful tool!

~ Eric Schlange, Fiddle Hangout Webmaster
FROM OUR SPONSORS
Delfest Academy - Cumberland, MD - May 21-23

Delfest The Academy will offer instruction for guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and bass for all experience levels. 2013 DelFest Academy instructors are award winning Jason Carter - fiddle, Ronnie McCoury – mandolin, Rob McCoury – banjo, Alan Bartram – bass, and Ronnie Bowman – guitar, and Don Rigsby on mandolin.
Delfest Monday May 20 is check in at 4pm with a meet and greet with students and instructors. Classes begin on Tuesday morning.

Space is limited, reserve yours today!

Member Video Picks

Tom Morley - Georgiana Starlington Waltz
Nadine Landry and Sammy Lind
Top New MP3s

Billy in the Low Ground (posted by William Hayes)
Boatman (posted by fiddlekid)
Yew Piney Mountain (posted by carlb)
Greenback Dolly-O (posted by Carter)
Learn for Less!

Fiddle for the Absolute Beginner
Fiddle champ Jim Wood gets you started on fiddle the right way! Posture, hand positions, exercises and basic tunes for a lifetime of playing.

Save 20% this week with promo code FIDHANG1
Enter the drawing Win Song Surgeon Software!

Enter for your chance to win Song Surgeon software--15 winners will be chosen for this drawing!

Song Surgeon provides "best in class" audio slow down capabilities, plus a whole lot more. Change tempo, change pitch, create practice loops, convert between file formats... and that's not all! Visit SongSurgeon.com for details or to download a demo.

Popular Forum Topics

Here are a few currently popular topics from the Fiddle Hangout forums:
BEWARE!!! Evil 6 String Device
Shoulder pain - different playing positions and shoulder rests
What a difference a string makes...
what a fiddler looks like in a bluegrass jam
"Dragging the Bow"- What is it? (aside from the fiddle tune)
Virtual Fiddle Fest March 2013
Irish Primer
Not Looking at Bow
I never practice
Dots
Outfit DrBanjo.com DVD Winners

Congrats to our three winners of the DrBanjo.com DVD drawing! Gerald Jones of Salem, MO, Michael J. McCoy of Daingerfield, TX, and George Moughton of Blackburn, Lancashire, UK each get their joice of jamming DVD from Pete Wernick of DrBanjo.com! They get to choose from:

Congrats, and thanks to Pete Wernick for sponsoring the drawing!
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