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Free Play Along Lessons

Whether you want to improvise in different styles of music, improve  technique, ear training or gain a more productive enjoyable practice,   use our 500+  human, free on-demand play-along lessons for students, pros, and teachers. 

Browse, watch, and play-along below.

To search by style, topic, song, or advancement, download our play-along directory.

Click  titles below to navigate a few of our many playlists.  

Find more lessons via the directory or Youtube channel.

Enjoy! 

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YT_ Alyssa Van Lanen
YT_ Mike Levy 2
YT_ Mike Levy
YT_ Paweł Przewłocki
YT_ Sakari Dixon Vanderveer
YT_ Susan Call Hutchison
YT_Adelle Meagher
YT_Akim
YT_Andrew Merritt
YT_ayman fartak
YT_Chuck Malloch
YT_Davide Mariani
YT_Deb Diemer
YT_Itcis 2
YT_Itcis
YT_jonathan6strings
YT_Lea Hoßbach
YT_Octavius Robinson 8Phoenix8
YT_Paolo Galperti
YT_Patricia Raith
YT_Paul Gibby
YT_Rachel Davies
YT_Rachel Samson
YT_Steve Nagele
YT_trowelstone
YT_trowelstone
YT_Steve Nagele
YT_Rachel Samson
YT_Rachel Davies
YT_Paul Gibby
YT_Patricia Raith
YT_Paolo Galperti
YT_Octavius Robinson 8Phoenix8
YT_Lea Hoßbach
YT_jonathan6strings
YT_Itcis
YT_Itcis 2
YT_Deb Diemer
YT_Davide Mariani
YT_Chuck Malloch
YT_ayman fartak
YT_Andrew Merritt
YT_Akim
YT_Adelle Meagher
YT_ Susan Call Hutchison
YT_ Sakari Dixon Vanderveer
YT_ Paweł Przewłocki
YT_ Mike Levy
YT_ Mike Levy 2
YT_ Alyssa Van Lanen

Our Members Love To Share Their Thoughts

"Such a refreshing way to learn, practice and love the fiddle! I appreciate your online teaching style more than I can say."
Anna Lauer Roy
Anna Lauer RoyFiddle Player
"All of the lessons are age-appropriate and fun. Some are definitely more challenging than others, but our students are not all at the same level - so this is perfect! You're doing a great job helping all of us so much! Thank you, Chris!!"
Darlene Rivest
Darlene RivestOrchestra teacher, long-time member of the Wisconsin Philharmonic
"So cool to have these play-along videos with readymade ideas on different levels! This is a completely new quality of online lessons for me!"
Josef Meier
Josef MeierViolinist
"I don't know of anybody else who teaches improvisation so diligently, thorough and consistently - You have discovered what excitement improvisation can bring and you share it with us all - once again, thank you very much!"
Eugenie van Zyl
Eugenie van ZylViolinist
"Your videos are valuable tools to help me in my teaching classically trained violinists cross over into the improvisational work."
David Blackmon
David BlackmonProfessional Fiddler, Recording Artist, Teacher
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Songs: Coffin Dance,  Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now”, BTS  “Dynamite”,  “Leave Before You Love Me” by Jonas Brothers,  Old Town Road by Little Nas X,  Oye Como Va , Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,   Seniorita, by Shawn Mendes, “Stand by Me”, “Girls like You”, “Fragile”…

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Our Members Love To Share Their Thoughts

"Such a refreshing way to learn, practice and love the fiddle! I appreciate your online teaching style more than I can say."
Anna Lauer Roy
Anna Lauer RoyFiddle Player
"All of the lessons are age-appropriate and fun. Some are definitely more challenging than others, but our students are not all at the same level - so this is perfect! You're doing a great job helping all of us so much! Thank you, Chris!!"
Darlene Rivest
Darlene RivestOrchestra teacher, long-time member of the Wisconsin Philharmonic
"So cool to have these play-along videos with readymade ideas on different levels! This is a completely new quality of online lessons for me!"
Josef Meier
Josef MeierViolinist
"I don't know of anybody else who teaches improvisation so diligently, thorough and consistently - You have discovered what excitement improvisation can bring and you share it with us all - once again, thank you very much!"
Eugenie van Zyl
Eugenie van ZylViolinist
"Your videos are valuable tools to help me in my teaching classically trained violinists cross over into the improvisational work."
David Blackmon
David BlackmonProfessional Fiddler, Recording Artist, Teacher
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Benefits of using our free play along videos:

  • improve tone

  • improve technique

  • have fun in warm up

  • get new ideas for how and what to practice

  • gain motivation

  • make practicing productive and enjoyable

How you can use these lessons:

  • Push play for entire classroom at same time

  • Assign to students individually

  • Foster independence and lifelong relationship with music

  • SEL

  • DEI

  • Improvisation

  • Aural learning

  • Harmony and theory

  • Teach eclectic styles

  • Teach functional musicianship

  • Meet national standards

  • Flip your music classroom

I created these play along lessons to help you enjoy practicing, explore new teaching methods, and improve on your own terms.

Grab your instrument and play along!

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