This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar. Steve Kaufman says he can't emphasize enough the importance of developing a large repertoire of tunes. Fiddle tunes give us melodies that eventually allow us to begin to improvise. Sometimes without even knowing it. The more tunes you know, the more melodies and intersecting melody lines you know. This allows you to eventually cut and paste portions of the melody line into another song. In the beginning you will probably unknowingly replace an ending run. These are the last two measures of the section of a tune. Many of them in the same key are interchangeable, unless they are specific to the melody of the song. After a while you will cut out measures in the middle of the song and then you will be able to take the snips of melodies and play them in another song in a different key thus beginning to improvise. All of this is possible because you built up your repertoire of tunes. Includes access to online audio.

A Bunch of Chickens      
Ace of Spades      
Angus Campbell      
Arkansas Traveler      
Batchelder's Reel      
Bayne Water      
Bear Pen Hollow      
Belle of Lexington      
Big John McNeill      
Big Scioty      
Bill Cheatham      
Bitter Creek      
Black-Eyed Susan      
Blind Steer in a Mudhole      
Blue Eagle      
Blue Goose, The      
Bob-Tailed Mule      
Boston Boy      
Brilliancy      
Brisk Young Soldier      
Broad Run Picnic      
Brown Button Shoes      
Brushy Run      
Buffalo Gals      
Casey Jones      
Cattle in the Cane      
Cherokee Shuffle      
Chicken in the Barnyard      
Chief Sitting Bull      
Chinese Breakdown      
Chinky Pin      
Choctaw      
Chorus Jig (Hoedown)      
Christmas Time will Soon Be Over      
Cider      
Cindy, Cindy      
Clyde Durst's Tune      
Cold, Frosty Morn      
Coming Down From Denver      
Cotton-Eyed Joe      
Cottonwood Reel      
Crazy Creek      
Crockett's Honeymoon      
Denver Belle      
Dirty Sheets      
Dixie      
Dolly      
Drunken Billy Goat      
Dry and Dusty      
Dry Creek Reel      
Durham's Reel      
Early in the Evening      
Eighth of January      
Flop-Eared Mule      
Flowers of Cahirciveen      
Forked Deer      
Fortune