Tune List:

Parts of the Fiddle, Tuning the Fiddle, Holding the Fiddle, Left Hand Placement, Holding the Bow, Dotted Note Values, Time Signatures, Pick-up Notes, Keys and Scales, Double Stops, Endings or "Tags", Mixolydian Mode, Double Shuffle, and Jigs.

Tunes, arranged in order of difficulty, include:


Mary Had a Little Lamb
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Liza Jane
Camptown Races
Buffalo Gals
Shady Grove
Shortnin' Bread
Oh, Suzanna
Cindy
Dixie
Wildwood Flower
Angeline the Baker
Soldier's Joy
Going to Boston
Skip to My Lou
The Girl I left Behind Me
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Old Joe Clark
Up Jumped the Devil
Mississippi Sawyer
Cripple Creek
Arkansas Traveler
Fine Times at My House
and many more. Some tunes are repeated in increasingly challenging variations.
 

Author: Duncan, Craig

Price: $19.95

Item Name: Craig Duncan - You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling (book/cd)
Item Number: MBK131
Price: $19.95

 

 

With You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling, veteran Mel Bay author, Craig Duncan, has produced an excellent book for the beginning fiddler. Its 36 lessons teach basic techniques through specific exercises and traditional fiddle tunes. From holding the fiddle and bow correctly to playing moderately advanced tunes in double stops, Craig will guide you through each progressive step. Although it is not necessary to be able to read music at the start of this book, the author gradually introduces principles of effective note reading throughout. A unique feature of this book is that the same tune may appear in more than one lesson, increasing in difficulty with each recurrence. Each variation builds on the previous one and assists students in learning how to create their own arrangements. Even with some repetitions of the same tune, you'll find more than 50 popular fiddle tunes in the book's 80 pages. "Check points" and reviews keep you on track from cover to cover. The companion DVD/video covers the first 17 lessons from the book.