Get Lessons and sheet music at FiddlinMike.com for only $10/month! This week’s lesson features the great, the wonderful, the legendary, Benny Thomasson! This lesson is the advanced follow-up to the Cripple Creek lesson I posted a while back. Texas style fiddling is all about controlled improvisation, so every time Benny plays a section he actually does it a little differently than he did before. Another cool part about Texas fiddling is that over time these variations take on a life of their own and become a whole new section. So although Cripple Creek is normally a 2 part tune, Benny turns it into a 3 part tune! This lesson is super long (45 minutes! Yowza!) so I broke it up into 2 Parts so that you don’t have to process too much at once. Part 1 comes today and Part 2 will come in a few days.