If you are a total beginner,  here is the perfect book to learn how to play old-time fiddle. Absolutely no previous experience needed! Wayne’s friendly writing style takes you through every step of adjusting, tuning, holding and yes, playing your fiddle. Appalachian, old-time, bluegrass and folk tunes are written out in Wayne’s easy and unique tab system for those who don’t read music, and in standard musical notation for those who do. Learning old-time fiddle has never been easier or more fun. Anyone can do it. Includes access to online audio, plus complete lyrics to all 37 tunes.  This book is guaranteed to help you learn to play old-time fiddle. 

Part of the Fiddler(r)
Who This Book Is For
A Word to the Fiddlers
What is Old-Time Fiddling?
Checking Out Your Fiddle
 Fiddle or Violin?
 Strings
 Tuning Pegs
 Poor Man's Peg Dope
 Fine Tuners
 Bridge
 Seams
 Tailgut
 Cracks
 A Poor Man's Humidifier
 Soundpost
Checking Our Your Bow
 Buying a Fiddle or a Bow
Getting Equipped
Tuning Your Fiddle
How to Hold Your Fiddle
How to Hold Your Left Hand
How to Hold the Bow
How to Use the Bow
The Fear of Reading Music
Tablature or "Tab" for Ignoramuses
How to Read Music for Ignoramuses
Your First Scale
Finger Placement Help
Joy to the World
What a Typical Page Looks Like
Ida Red
Say, Darling Say
How to Shuffle
Improvising
Lynchburg Town
Shortening Bread
Run Johnny Run
Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase
Camptown Races
Sugar Hill
Polly Put the Kettle On
Sail Away Ladies
D Dorian Made
In the Pines
Gospel PPlow
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Muley's Daughter
East Virginia
Darling Corey
Rain and Snow
How to Jam
Playing in the Key of A
Cripple Creek
Buffalo Gals
Liza Poor Gal
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Old Joe Clark
Playing in A Minor
Charley He's a Good Old Man
Cluck Old Hen
House of the Rising Sun
The Key of G
Amazing Grace
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
Red River Valley
Old Molly Hare
Rye Whiskey
Blackest Crow
Wagoner's Lad
Willie Moore
Groundhog
The Key of C
Wildwood Flower
Little Birdie
And What Now?
Fiddle Slang
Tune & CD Index
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