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A Hundred Favorite Fiddle Tune
One hundred great fiddle solos and duets on reels, waltzes, jigs, hornpipes, two-steps, breakdowns, clogs, and schottisches by well-known Canadian fiddle Bill Guest. This book was compiled mainly for the violin student who is interested in learning to play old-time fiddle music.
Product# 93730
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Deluxe Album Of Fiddle Waltzes & Slow Aires
Canadian fiddler Bill Guest has collected and arranged 58 great fiddle waltzes written by a superb collection of contemporary fiddlers. The tunes are scored for violin solo, duet, or trio. This book comes with a stereo listening CD which demonstrates 30 songs from the book.
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Top Fiddle Solos
If you are looking for exciting and challenging fiddle solos by one of America's hottest fiddlers, this book is for you. Presents 60 great fiddling tunes! The CD is sparkling stereo listening recording featuring Craig Duncan backed up by a top Nashville country rhythm section!
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The Fiddling Chord Book
Contains the most frequently used basic chords, and covers practically every fiddling situation. Major, minor, diminished, augmented, seventh, minor seventh, and sixth chords are shown in detail.
Product# 94683
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The Phillips Collection of Traditional A
Meticulously collected from recordings, square and contra dances, fiddle contestes, jam sessions and individual fiddlers- this book is meant to provide a snapshot of what American fiddlers were playing and listening to in the latter part of the 20th Century.
Product# 94711
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The Fiddle Music of Scotland
A comprehensive annotated collection of 365 tunes with a historical introduction. Much more than a definitive collection of tunes, James Hunter's introduction traces the history of the fiddle and music through the centuries.
Product# 95070
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Aerobics For Fiddling
Get in shape and stay in shape on your fiddle. Written by champion fiddler Carol Ann Wheeler, Aerobics for Fiddlers contains well-thought-out exercises dealing with dexterity, vibrato, loosening and strengthening the wrist, plus techniques such as double-stops, turn-arounds, chromatics, etc.
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Southern Mountain Fiddle
A great way to learn and play Southern Mountain music! The CD recording included with this book is entitled 'Southern Mountain Classics'. It includes the true classics of old-time mountain music played on clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer, guiar, bass and buckdancing.
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The Fiddlin' Workshop
This book was written to be used as a learning tool for beginners who read music. It presents very easy tunes to learn the basics of bowing and style, and progresses in difficulty. All of the arrangements are renditions that the author plays and has heard other fiddlers play.
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Complete Irish Fiddle Player
This is not a book for the absolute beginner. Written for the literary as much as the musical connoisseur. Having the ability to read music will enable you to follow the bowing patterns and left-hand techniques which the author feels are crucial in grasping the playing style.
Product# 95406
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The Complete Irish Fiddle Player
This is not a book for the absolute beginner. You can expect to enjoy the process of learning...[and experience] the joy of recreating a traditional tune, of making it your own. Written for the literary as much as the musical connoisseur. Includes a double CD featuring solo fiddle.
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Twin Fiddling
This unique book presents authentic and fun multiple fiddle arrangements in the following styles: old-time, bluegrass, western swing, waltzes, and more. Playing hints are included for all of the tunes.
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Fiddling Around the World
Play along with a lively Irish session, a spirited Ukrainian hopak, a tantalizing Arabic belly dance, a famous Italian tarantella, a Klezmer hora, and over 50 other international favorites! This book/CD features vibrant folk music from North America, the British Isles, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
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Celtic Circles
Inspired by the Celtic circles of ancient Scotland, Bonnie paints a musical picture through time, joining the heavens and earth to the cycles of everyday life. Performed on Scottish fiddle with gold medal piper Eric Rigler on the Great Highland bagpipe, Scottish smallpipes and uilleann pipes.
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Famous Fiddlin Tunes
This affordable 5 1/2' by 8' QWIKGUIDE offers 43 traditional fiddle solos in standard notation with chord symbols. The attached CD contains performances of all the tunes in the book.
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Fiddle Tunes for the Violinist
This collection of favorites has been carefully edited to make it possible for the student and amateur violinist to build real fiddling skills. The dances have been arranged in order of difficulty in the easy “fiddle keys” of G, D, and A.
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Celtic Music For Fiddle
Celtic Music For Fiddle by Miles Courtiere features 35 Celtic pieces from various parts of the Celtic world. All of the pieces are dance music, jigs, reels, slides, hornpipes etc. All of the pieces were originally played on the fiddle.
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Favorite Celtic Melodies For Fiddle
Favorite Celtic Melodies for Fiddle by Miles Courtiere is a follow up book to the popular Celtic Music for Fiddle. The aim of the book is to provide Fiddlers interested in learning Celtic pieces a wide range of simple and easy to remember melodies while providing a range of different moods, tempos and rhythms.
Product# FCMF
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Folk And Country Waltzes For Fiddle
There are 50 well known waltzes fully notated in the book and played on the CD with a full backing band. These pieces are all easy to learn. If you do not read music well (or at all) you can pick up the melody from the CD.
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English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish Fiddle T
Over 100 tunes, this is an outstanding collection of the traditional music of Britain, graded from easy to advanced.
Product# OK63164
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Hot Licks For Bluegrass Fiddle
Over 450 authentic bluegrass licks and how to apply them to create your own solos, fills, and backup. Special sections on riffs using double stops, riffs using upper positions, and different ways of playing Orange Blossom Special.
Product# OK64378
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Irish Session Tunes The Orange Book
Book/CD pack. More session tunes collected in sets so that you can work on transitions as well as tunes. Meant to follow The Blue Book, this time the emphasis is on reels, which are more difficult for the learning musician.
Product# OMB84
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Irish Session Tunes The Blue Book
In an Irish session, tunes are played in sets and unless you know how to get from one tune to the next you'll crash! Based on the many sessions he's played in or listened to, Brid Cranitch has selected 100 tunes in 40 sets of 2, 3 or 4 tunes so that you can learn the tunes and work on transitions.
Product# OMB85
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The Townsend Old Time Fiddle Method
Old Time Fiddle Method This book takes the novice right though all the fundamentqal steps. Loaded with over 75 traditional Canadian, Scottish and Irish tunes for building a great repertiore.
Product# OTFB
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Ready Set Play Violin Instruction
Ready Set Play Instruction for Violin or fiddle is as simple as 1, 2, 3 for the begiinning player.
Product# RSP
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Roy Clark's Fiddle Magic Method
Follow Roy's step by step progressive method covering many traditional styles and techniques: Old Time, Bluegrass, Irish, Gospel Folk/Blues and Patriotic. Over 50 great Tunes including Banks Of The Ohio, Battle Hymn of The Republic, New River Train, Rock of Ages and many more!
Product# TS115
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THe Magic of Irish Fiddling
A diverse sampling of traditional Irish Fiddle tunes arranged in first position for violinists and fiddlers. The authentic Irish jigs, reels hornpipes polkas and airs in this book are timeless standards in the traditional Irish repertoire.
Product# TS362
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