You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling (Book + Online Audio/Video)
Designed for beginning fiddle students, these 36 lessons present basic techniques by applying them to fiddle tunes. Reading music is unnecessary, as the lessons are explained step by step, and fingerings are given for every note. Each version builds on the previous one and helps students to create their own arrangements. Includes access to online audio and video. The online audio contains 48 songs from the book.

The online video is designed to complement the first 17 ...more
Product Number:
94430M
Format:
Book + Online Audio/Video
Skill Level:
Beginning
Notation Type:
Standard Notation
Pages:
80
Binding:
Squareback Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8990-0
ISBN13:
978-07866-8990-3
Series:
You Can Teach Yourself
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
6/19/2015
Designed for beginning fiddle students, these 36 lessons present basic techniques by applying them to fiddle tunes. Reading music is unnecessary, as the lessons are explained step by step, and fingerings are given for every note. Each version builds on the previous one and helps students to create their own arrangements. Includes access to online audio and video. The online audio contains 48 songs from the book.

The online video is designed to complement the first 17 lessons of the You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling text. Covers tuning, holding the fiddle and bow, left-hand position, basic A, D, and G scales, shuffle bowing, slurs, double stops, and many tunes, including "Liza Jane," "Shortening Bread," "Going to Boston," and "Bile Them Cabbage Down."
Parts of the Fiddle 
Tuning the Fiddle 
Lesson 1: Holding the Fiddle 
Left-Hand Placement 
Holding the Bow 
Playing the Open Strings 
Lesson 2: The A Scale 
A Scale-Quarter Notes 
A Scale - Half Notes 
Mary Had a Little Lamb 
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star 
Lesson 3: The Dotted Half Note 
Liza Jane 
Camptown Races 
Review 
Lesson 4: The Eighth Note 
Buffalo Gals 
Shady Grove 
The Names of the Notes in Lesson 17: the A Scale 
Lesson 5: Repeat Signs 
Shortnin' Bread 
Oh, Susanna 
Cindy 
Review 
Lesson 6: The D Scale 
Dixie 
Lesson 7: Time Signatures 
Pick-Up Notes 
Rests 
Wildwood Flower 
Angeline the Baker 
Lesson 8: Low Second Finger 
Soldier's Joy 
Accidentals 
Going to Boston 
Lesson 9: The G Scale 
Flop Eared Mule 
Review 
Lesson 10: Skip to My Lou 
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Lesson 11: The Fourth Finger 
The Shuffle 
Bile Them Cabbage Down…
Old Joe Clark 
Lesson 12: Up Jumped the Devil 
Cripple Creek 
Flop Eared Mule 
Lesson 13: Double Stops 
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Old Joe Clark 
Lesson 14: Up Jumped the Devil 
Going to Boston 
Lesson 15: Mississippi Sawyer 
Soldier's Joy 
Lesson 16: Flop Eared Mule 
Skip to My Lou 
Review 
Lesson 17: Cripple Creek 
Old Joe Clark 
Review 
Lesson 18: Introductions 
Arkansas Traveler 
Lesson 19: Endings or Tags 
Lesson 20: Putting It All Together - Performance Time 
Technique Review 
Check Points 
Lesson 21: Form 
Rose Tree 
Over the Waterfall 
Lesson 22: Dotted Quarter Notes 
My Love She's But a Lassie 
Newcastle 
Lesson 23: Waltzes 
Southwind 
Si Bheag, Si Mhor 
Lesson 24: The A Scale 
Bile Them Cabbage Down
The Sandy River 
Lesson 25: Mixolydian Mode 
Fine Times at Our House 
Salt River 
Lesson 26: Mississippi Sawyer 
Chinky Pin or Too Young to Marry 
Lesson 27: Cotton Eyed Joe 
The Cameron Highlanders
Lesson 28: Dotted Eighth/Sixteenth 
Scotland the Brave 
Harvest Home
Lesson 29: Long Bow-Stroke Exercise 
Ash Grove
Amazing Grace 
Lesson 30: Miss McLeod's Reel 
Swinging on a Gate 
Lesson 31: Low First Finger and Low Fourth Finger 
Fisher's Hornpipe 
Snowflake Reel 
Lesson 32: Understanding Keys and Scales 
Lesson 33: Double Shuffle 
C and G Chord Double-Shuffle Exercise 
Back Up and Push 
Lesson 34: Orange Blossom Shuffle 
Rubber Dolly 
Lesson 35: Jigs 
Irish Washerwoman 
Garry Owen 
St Patrick's Day 
Lesson 36: Haste to the Wedding 
Dorian Mode 
The Road to Lisdoonvama
Swallow Tail Jig 
About the Author 
Acknowledgments 
 
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Series: You Can Teach Yourself
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