Champion fiddler Dale Morris teaches fiddle, guitar and mandolin to people of all ages, from toddlers to senior citizens.

Dale invites you to take lessons at his studio in Boyd, Texas (ten miles south of Decatur). All lessons are taught individually and consist of weekly half or one hour sessions.

Lessons are tailored to each individual's needs,
interests, age, and experience level. Students are
taught to play by ear, standard sheet music or tablature..

If you are interested in taking lessons, please call or email Dale

for pricing and session availability.

Please include the instrument and style of music you are interested in learning to play, your skill level, as well as your address and
phone number.

For distance learning, telephone lessons are also available.

We also teach via web cam.

Below are several testimonials from some of our students we are so prou

to have worked with over the years.

Dale Morris - May 5, 2013

I want to thank you for being my teacher.

My husband passed away in September 2008, and I wanted to do something.

After losing my soul mate of forty years, it’s hard to move forward.

So I thought I would follow a dream of mine to learn how to play the violin

But the music I was aware of was classical and too confining for me.

So I thought I would try a different focus and learned about fiddle music.

Thankfully, I found a teacher who would teach a new student of 62 years young.

But I kept looking for something better and found you at a fiddle camp.

You said you would teach me and Wow! You are fantastic!

I found I didn’t even have to read music to play

Tablature is a way of numbering fingers to strings to music notes

All I had to do was count to four. Hey! I could do that.

I found in you a fantastic teacher, who has patience,

Vastly knowledgeable about music, instruments, teaching,

With a wonderland of fiddle music genre and people.

Heaven knows if I had to teach me – I would have pulled my hair out

But you! Thank God! Has the patience of Job.

After two years with you I found I had breast cancer

I went through a mastectomy, had a stroke during surgery, and later chemotherapy.

What a triple whammy! I couldn’t even hold my fiddle or move my fingers.

We moved to the mandolin (same note strings only with frets).

You gave me exercises to make my fingers move

And the frets forced my fingers apart.

You provided patience so I could learn all over again and me being two years older.

Eventually, I could hold my fiddle and play.

Even my doctors (and I have a lot of them now)

Said you provided me with the exercises I needed

And I was having fun again after tragedy.

I enjoy learning from you, challenging me to do better,

Providing me with on outlet for my dreams

And being the wind beneath my wings.

You are a treasure and a wonderful man.

Thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Joyce Varnes

Can a Tone Deaf Person Learn How to Play the Fiddle?
Below is a testimonial from one of our new web-cam students from New Hampshire.

TELEPHONE LESSONS

Actually, the mother of a student of ours from Alaska came up with the idea. She deserves full credit.

Obviously, Alaska is quite a distance from Texas and just about the only lessons that her son had is whenever they came to Texas on vacation or whenever we taught in Washington State when they are visiting relatives.The bottom line is that lessons were FEW and FAR BETWEEN!!!

She called one night to ask if we'd consider trying to teach him by "speakerphone." We were very skeptical at first. How could it possibly work? How expensive would a one hour long distance call be?

Would we be able to teach, not being able to "see the student" or the "student see us "? It DID WORK! In fact, I would never have dreamed how well. Upon doing the first of these lessons we realized the following:

• We did not have to see the student. We could tell by listening where problems existed. By having taught so many privately, we also knew how to fix these problems, i.e., an out-of-tune note. We would know what was causing him to play this note wrong and tell him how to fix it over the phone!

• Being less distracted by visual things certainly caused us to listen more closely.

If you are interested in learning this way, give me a call (940-433-5741) or drop us an e-mail.

Video Lessons Via Web-Cam

NEW - as of Sept. 2009 I am offering VIDEO LESSONS via WEB-CAM. Should you have interest, web cameras are very inexpensive. This is really your only expense, as far as getting started. There is a free program called Skype that will need to be downloaded. From this point on a lesson is scheduled. Please give me a call at area code 940-433-5741 for more information.

Testimonial