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Find fiddle tab books for less at PlayBetterBluegrass.com. Every fiddle tablature and instruction book is discount priced and most ship the same day. Most fiddle books are written in standard notation rather than tablature. Tablature is a visual approach to playing the fiddle that tells you which strings to play and which fret to hold down with the bar. Due to the many limitations of tablature, nearly all fiddle books are written in standard notation.

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The American Fiddle Method Vol. 1
The American Fiddle Method Vol. 1
Destined to become a classic, this method provides the beginner with the elements needed to become a proficient fiddler. Based on many years of teaching experience, the author introduces the concepts and techniques that yields solid results. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
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The American Fiddle Method Vol. 2
The American Fiddle Method Vol. 2
Volume 2 addresses such important skills as: 1) expanding a basic repertoire of common intermediate-level tunes, 2) learning to use low first position, 3) mastery of bowing down on the beat and corrective slurring, 4) artistic slurring, 5) understanding basic music theory, and 6) learning double-stop backup combinations.
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Fiddlescapes
Fiddlescapes
By Deborah Greenblatt, the past Nebraska State and Mid-America fiddle champion. Contains many tunes from hoedowns to waltzes of all levels of difficulty.
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Bluegrass & Country Fiddle
Bluegrass & Country Fiddle
Beginners will be playing double-stops, harmonies, riffs and exciting solos right from the first lesson. More than 35 great fiddle tunes are taught!
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Deluxe Fiddling Method - Book/CD/DVD
Deluxe Fiddling Method - Book/CD/DVD
This book and CD/DVD teaches the basics of fiddling by beginning with essential bowings and fingerings, and progressing from simple to more complex renditions of tunes. Usable fingerings, bowings and explanations of each of the 49 tunes are included in this book. This is the most widely-used fiddle method available!
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Complete Fiddling Book
Complete Fiddling Book
A compilation of arrangements of traditional tunes by several outstanding practitioners of the art of fiddle playing. From The Arkansas Traveler to The Yellow Rose of Texas, over 300 colorful fiddle tunes populated this book's 205 pages. Now available with DVD!
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You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling
You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling
With You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling, veteran Mel Bay author, Craig Duncan, has produced an excellent book for the beginning fiddler. Its 36 lessons teach basic techniques through specific exercises and traditional fiddle tunes.
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Children's  Fiddling Method Vol. 1
Children's Fiddling Method Vol. 1
As both a championship fiddler and superb teacher, Carol Ann Wheeler brings all her talents to bear in this fiddling book written especially for young children. Students raised in the Suzuki tradition will immediately take to the method, concepts, and techniques used in this book and CD.
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Childrens Fiddling Method Vol. 2
Childrens Fiddling Method Vol. 2
This volume builds on the techniques explained in Children's Fiddling Method Volume 1. While created with children in mind, this book is equally well suited for adults, violinists, and string teachers.
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Easiest Fiddling Book
Easiest Fiddling Book
Contains two dozen arrangements of tunes for the beginning fiddler or violinist. This book begins with the easiest arrangements and progresses in difficulty. Each tune is written in music notation with chord changes followed by a fingering chart.
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Easy Fiddle Solos
Easy Fiddle Solos
This book of original pieces is intended to give the beginning fiddler an immediate grasp of the fundamentals of fiddling in an instructive yet enjoyable way. Melodies are shown with chord symbols for guitar, banjo, or piano accompaniment. A companion CD is included-all at a great price!
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String Band Classics Fiddle
String Band Classics Fiddle
Transcriptions of 23 great old time classic vocals and fiddle tunes as played and recorded by the Highwoods String Band, one of the pre-eminent old time revival bands of the 1970s. Transcriptions include melodies, lyrics, chords, and solos with standard musical notation.
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A Guide to American Fiddling
A Guide to American Fiddling
A Guide to American Fiddling exposes serious students of the violin to the technical nuances of traditional Old Time fiddling. In this book, violinist/fiddler Andrew Carlson provides a detailed technical analysis of Missouri-style fiddling, focusing primarily on the use of the bow.
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Easy Beginner Fiddle Method
Easy Beginner Fiddle Method
Easy beginning fiddle method includes chords and how to use them in songs, how to tune and more. By Benny Simms.
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Fiddle Primer
Fiddle Primer
Fiddle Primer Book by Jim Tolles (companion to the video) is the first book clearly showing the beginner how to play the fiddle. Includes many illustrations showing how to hold the bow and fiddle properly and many exercises to develop good bowing technique and learning how to play in tune. Great beginnner fiddle lessons.
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Bluegrass Fiddle
Bluegrass Fiddle
The first complete guide to bluegrass fiddling, covering the fundamentals of musical terminology, right- and left-hand techniques, double stops, slurs and slides. Twenty nine bluegrass and 14 traditional tunes arranged to develop technique and a repertoire.
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Teach Yourself Bluegrass Fiddle
Teach Yourself Bluegrass Fiddle
Teach yourself authentic bluegrass, with clear instructions from a professional. Covers the basics, bowing and left-handed techniques and solo backup. A section also includes personal advice on performance. Plus a complete section of the best bluegrass songs and tunes to learn from. B/w photos.
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How To Play Fiddle
How To Play Fiddle
Easy one step at time progressive instruction. Helpful diagrams photographs and workshops. A great assortment of familiar fiddle tunes. This instruction is methodical essential and easy to understand.
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Childrens Graded Fiddle Solos
Childrens Graded Fiddle Solos
This book of fiddle solos is a companion to Children's Fiddling Method Volume 1. The tunes, presented first in their simplest form followed by progressively more difficult arrangements, utilize the skills and techniques introduced in the method book. While created for children, this music will also be enjoyed by adults who wish to gain an understanding of how to fiddle a tune.
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Hot Fiddle!
Hot Fiddle!
Wow your audience with four dozen pro techniques and three sizzling tunes to show them off (including "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"), with this 4-hour 2-DVD set. A lifetime course for the price of one lesson! Intermediate to advanced; for fiddle or classical "cross-over" players.
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A Fiddle Player's Guide To Jamming
A Fiddle Player's Guide To Jamming
This book presents everything a beginning or intermediate fiddler player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe the anatomy of a jam session, jam session etiquette, chords and keys for jamming, and vamping. A play-along CD is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes.
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Getting Into Fiddling
Getting Into Fiddling
A quick study in the most popular fiddle styles played today, this 96 page text covers basic fiddling techniques and tunes in Old Time, Bluegrass, Contest, Western Swing, Cajun and Irish/Celtic music. The text will benefit both players who wish to expand their knowledge of fiddling and musicians who are seeking the right tunes from a variety of styles combined into one book. Companion CD included.
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Parking Lot Pickers Songbook: Fiddle Edition
Parking Lot Pickers Songbook: Fiddle Edition
A collection of over 225 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, The Osborne Brothers. Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also included: Step-by-Step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key! The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book. Standard notation.
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All Star Bluegrass Jam Along For Fiddle
All Star Bluegrass Jam Along For Fiddle
These fabulous collections for players of all levels feature 21 must-know bluegrss songs & instrumentals, created especially for learning players by the genre's leading artists. The artist plays a basic solo that states the melody of the tune, then a more adventurous improvisation, and each solo is transcribed in detail.
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Gospel Violin
Gospel Violin
Fourteen beautiful solos based on favorite hymns and sacred melodies. Selections are appropriate throughout the church year and are easy to moderate in difficulty. Keyboard accompaniment is included with each selection.
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Beginning Fiddle Solos
Beginning Fiddle Solos
Easy solos in several styles for beginners... great tune selection! Includes Down Yonder; Goodbye Liza Jane; and many others. Each tune has a complete explanation of rhythm and fingering, along with helpful playing hints.
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50 Tunes for Fiddle
50 Tunes for Fiddle
This book contains the same 50 tunes as those found in the other 4 books of the series for guitar, mandolin, bass and banjo, but carefully designed for the fiddle. The parts in this book range from beginner to advanced. All tunes contain a simple melody and most of the tunes contain an intermediate or advanced part. Companion CD's included.
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Fiddle Tunes - The Basics and Beyond
Fiddle Tunes - The Basics and Beyond
The perfect introduction to bluegrass and traditional fiddle tunes. Sections include: Fiddle Tunes, Hornpipes, Waltzes, Jigs, Strathspeys, Reels, and Improvisation. The 43 traditional fiddle standards covered in the book comprise the core fiddle tune repertoire. All songs are demonstrated on the included CD! Each song is taught in a basic "standard" arrangement and then in an advanced variation.
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A Fiddling Christmas
A Fiddling Christmas
This book contains many types of Christmas and holiday tunes from a wide variety of sources. Each tune has suggested bowings, guitar chords, an optional harmony part and a piano accompaniment along with information on the origin of the tune.
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Fiddlin' Favorites
Fiddlin' Favorites
Fiddle favorites is an intermediate to advanced course most helpful to those who already play by Benny Simms.
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Beginning Old Time Fiddle
Beginning Old Time Fiddle
More than 40 tunes for the absolute beginner and detailed sections on how to hold the bow, bow movement, positions. Includes tunes in the styles of J.P. Fraley, Gaither Carlton, and Kenny Hall for the intermediate and advanced player.
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Bluegrass Fiddler
Bluegrass Fiddler
A compilation of 30 fiddle tunes ranging from folk to ragtime to gospel. All tunes are presented in a 'theme-and-variations' format. Guitar chords are included as are lyrics, where appropriate. Levity leapt over the lyrical in these fiddling favorites that set our father's feet to stepping and made them 'do their thing.'
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Bluegrass Fiddle Styles
Bluegrass Fiddle Styles
The most complete bluegrass fiddle book ever published. Authentic transcriptions of bluegrass breaks in the styles of 25 major players, including Eck Robertson, Fiddin' Arthur Smith, Chubby Wise, Vassar Clements, and Kenny Baker.
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The Fiddler's Fakebook
The Fiddler's Fakebook
Contains nearly 500 jigs, reels, rags, and hornpipes from all the major fiddling traditions. Special introductory materials on regional styles, bowing, and ornamentation. Includes an extensive discography.
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Don Messer Anthology of Fiddle Tunes
Don Messer Anthology of Fiddle Tunes
This Anthology contains the fiddle tunes from the books : Original Old Tyme Music, Way Down East Fiddlin' Tunes, Barndance Breakdowns and Canadian Hoedowns moost of which have been out of print for some time. They represent Don's favorite and most requested tunes in his long career as Canada's best know country fiddler.
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Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia
Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia
The purpose of this book is to offer fiddlers direct access to the gems of the genre. Composers represented in this volume span a three hundred year period including works by: Patrick MacDonald, Adam Craig, Capt. Charles Duff, Simon Fraser, Robert and Joseph Lowe, Robert MacIntosh, William Marshall, and J. Scott Skinner.
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The Kilted Fiddler
The Kilted Fiddler
A collection of 167 Scottish fiddle tunes compiled and arranged by Alan Lerwick, including: Reels and Scotch Measures, Strathspeys, Jigs, Hornpipes, Waltzes, Descriptive Tunes, Marches, Slow Airs and Laments, and more. Includes historical notes, playing tips, and photos.
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The Cajun Fiddle Book
The Cajun Fiddle Book
This collection of more than 30 Cajun tunes is intended as a stepping stone for those who are new to the Cajun tradition. Includes a list of sources for Cajun recordings, a discography, and a bio of arranger Deborah Greenblatt.
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Orange Blossom Boys Untold Story
Orange Blossom Boys Untold Story
One of the most bizarre stories in all of popular music is the history of "Orange Blossom Special," arguably the century's best-known fiddle tune. The man credited with its ownership, Ervin T. Rouse, endured tragedy, alcoholism and mental illness. He spent his last years fiddling for tips in isolated taverns at the edge of the Florida Everglades, and died all but unknown.
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Country Fiddle
Country Fiddle
This well thought-out book is divided into 17 lessons for the intermediate player, contains fiddle tunes from simple to advanced, plus exercises to help the player develop the strong supple left-hand and flexible balanced bow-arm. Plus guitar chart and chords for each time.
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