Traditional American fiddle music is a rich mix of different styles and influences drawn from Scottish and Irish fiddle music, jazz, and bluegrass. Bluegrass fiddle style originated in Kentucky, known as the Bluegrass state, and is characterised by a strong rhythmic drive, a virtuosic style, and ‘blues notes’—notes that are ‘bent’ or altered for expressive effect, e.g. the flattened 3rd. This arrangement exploits some typical techniques used by traditional players: elaboration of the melody, double-stopping, left-hand pizzicato, bowing across the beat, and a written-out improvised solo with inflected blues notes.