A complete guide to playing fiddle tunes! Covers: tips on hand positions, playing instructions and techniques, rhythmic patterns for the reel, jig, hornpipe and waltz, and more.
Features over 100 songs, along with a CD that demonstrates several of the tunes. Ability to read music is not necessary.
Over 100 Tunes, Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, Waltzes.
Playing Instructions, plus how to play back-up
CONTENTS:
TUNES IN SINGLE NOTE STYLE
Abe’s Retreat
Avalon Quickstep
The Big Scioty
Bill Cheatham
Billy In The Low Ground
Blackberry Blossom
Boil Them Cabbage Down
Booth Shot Lincoln
Boston Boy, Cluck Old Hen
Breaking Up Christmas
Campbell’s Farewell To Redgap
Cherokee Shuffle
Cold Frosty Morning
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Cumberland Gap
Fine Times At Our House
Flop-Eared Mule
The Flowers Of Edinburgh
The Flying Cloud Cotillion
Forked Deer
Fortune
Goodbye Liza Jane
The Hangman’s Reel
The Fairy Dance (Old Molly Hare)
Hop High Ladies
Jimmy In The Swamp
John Brown’s Dream
Johnny Don’t Get Drunk
June Apple
Katy Hill
Leather Breeches
Magpie
Mississippi Sawyer
Old Dan Tucker
The Old Gray Cat
Old Mother Flannigan
Pig Ankle Rag
Ragtime Annie
Red Wing
Richmond Cotillion
Sail Away Ladies
Sally Ann, Sally Goodin
Salt Creek
Shenandoah Falls
Shove That Pig’s Foot A Little Farther In The Fire
The Smoke Above The Clouds
Soldier’s Joy
The Squirrel Hunters
Stoney Point
The Temperance Reel
Tennessee Wagoner
Too Young To Marry
Waynesboro
Whiskey Before Breakfast
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
TUNES WITH TONGUE BLOCKING
Angeline The Baker
Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine
Bonaparte’s Retreat
Darling Nellie Gray
Coleman’s March
Home Sweet Home
Listen To The Mockingbird
My Grandfather’s Clock
Oh! Dem Golden Slippers
The Seneca Square Dance
Copyright © 2016 by Glenn Weiser