You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling

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You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling

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 a split- track CD. Forty-eight songs from the book are on the CD. The DVD with this set 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."

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"
Lesson 4: The Eighth Note, "Buffalo Gals", "Shadygrove", The Names of the Notes in the A Scale
Lesson 5: Repeat Signs, "Shortnin' Bread", "Oh, Susanna", "Cindy"
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 a Scale, "Flop Eared Mule"
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"
Lesson 17: "Cripple Creek", "Old Joe Clark"
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 Lisdoonvarna", "Swallow Tail Jig"

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