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The Traveler Series, originally created by Red Room Audio, was created to authentically capture instruments from around the world, and the cultures they live in, by tapping into the most talented artists on location and recording their iconic performance styles.

Bluegrass Fiddle was designed to capture what makes bluegrass playing unique: a distinctive American style characterized by bold, bluesy improvisation, off-beat “chopping,” and sophisticated use of double stops and old-time bowing patterns. Notes are often slid into, a technique seldom used in Celtic styles.

Bluegrass fiddlers tend to ignore the rules that violinists follow: they hold the fiddle the “wrong” way and often don’t use the chin & shoulder rests. This sample library likewise focuses on the performance and personal expression rather than being hung up on traditional rules.

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Creating Bluegrass Fiddle meant journeying right to the heart of the Bluegrass State – Clay City, Kentucky – to the private studio of one of the most renowned names in Bluegrass music, Rickey Wasson, to record the performance of a true bluegrass fiddle legend, multi-instrumentalist & Grammy-nominated artist Ronnie Stewart. Ronnie has appeared on hundreds of records and toured with some of the genre’s biggest names.

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STANDARD ARTICULATIONS

• Reel Sustain
• Air Sustain
• Bowed Legato
• Fingered Legato
• Tenuto
• Spiccato
• Pizzicato
• Strummed Pizzicato
• 8th Repetition Shorts
• 8th Repetitions (tempo synced)
• 16th Repetitions (tempo synced)
• Crescendo (short & long, tempo synced)

ORNAMENTS

• Bend Up Fast (HT, WT)
• Bend Up Slow (HT, WT)
• Bend Down Fast (HT, WT)
• Bend Down Slow (HT, WT)
• Bend Turn
• Turn (HT, WT, Min3, Maj3)
• Unisons
• Fall Release

PHRASES & FX

• FX – Percussive
• FX – Fret Noise
• Bend Up Unisons (HT & WT, Fast & Slow)
• Intros
• Chops Rhythms (tempo synced)
• Rhythms (tempo synced)
• Various Phrases