Violin / Fiddle Books
This book presents a general survey of American Fiddling. The author's intent is to teach the basics of Fiddling by beginning with essential bowings and fingerings, and progressing from simple to more complex renditions of tunes. As Fiddling is an aural tradition and fiddlers from different parts of the country play a given tune in many ways, tunes included in this book are offered only as themselves. The author has attempted to present usable fingerings, bowings and explanations of each of the 49 tunes in this book. The end result is the most widely-used Fiddle-method available! The online audio is in split-track format, allowing the fiddler to play with the Fiddle solo, Guitar and/or Fiddle accompaniment, or both! Contains every tune in the book.
A complete beginner's guide to traditional fiddle styles. Learn authentic techniques while playing melodies. Includes techniques on the single shuffle, playing blues, double stops, how to buy a fiddle and how to read music.
Over 425 reels, jigs, "set-tunes," waltzes, marches, strathspeys, and airs transcribed from the playing of traditional fiddlers make this a "must have" title. Even the titles that have appeared in print before, feature new and intriguing details. Because each tune is a transcription of a specific performance by an individual player, many subtleties of style--such as ornamentation, double stops, and slurs—are included. Also included are each player’s melodic idiosyncrasies—called twists in local parlance. You will find living, breathing versions of tunes filled with the vitality of a people whose great love for their music is expressed in every bow-stroke. Includes access to online audio.
The Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book is a must for all bluegrass pickers! Included are the melody line and chords to over two hundred favorite gospel and bluegrass songs.
Over 100 tunes, an outstanding collection of the traditional music of Britain. Selected, introduced and annotated by Robin Williamson. For fiddle, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, flute accordion and concertina. Graded from easy to advanced. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Favourite Scottish tunes in two part arrangements for keyboard, fiddle and accordion players. Playing together is great fun and these arrangements have been produced for the various fiddle groups and classes and for friends playing together by Inverness Fiddlers’ Society, Paddy Shaw, Anne Hughes, Jean Ann Callender & Christine Martin.
You asked for it and you got it! More tunes to play at festivals and jams or just sittin' at home with a friend or two. 62 more tunes with both basic and advanced standard notation lines with suggested chords as well as a "mandolin" tablature line to get you going in the right direction and playing these old-time favorites.As in Old-Time Festival Tunes for Fiddle and Mandolin), you will find some of the tunes to be straightforward while others promise to be genuine finger twisters! The book revisits some of the author's old favorites and some time-tested standards.The accompanying audio includes each tune on both fiddle and mandolin, with a separate CD for each instrument.
This is the ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and 86 professional quality recorded full-demo tracks. It can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the recordings. This book includes over 70 great songs and covers: assembly and care for the instrument; how to produce sound; reading music notation and rhythms; fingering chart; glossary of musical terms. Audio is accessed online using the access code inside the book.
As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.Lesson One: Songs: 'Charles O'Conor' and 'Sheebeg and Sheemore'.Lesson Two: Songs include: 'The Blarney Pilgrim' and 'Callahan's Hornpipe.Lesson Three: Song: 'The Kid On the Mountain'
The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the online audio to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book, you may also choose to sing along. The audio includes PLAYBACK+ features that allow you to loop passages, change the tempo, and more. This volume includes: Michael Jackson Medley · Party Rock Anthem · Pump It · Right Round · River Flows in You · Starships · A Thousand Years · We Found Love.
From the creators of BARRAGE comes this useful collection of fiddle tunes for the beginning violinist. For the violin student who wishes to learn the violin style of BARRAGE, here is an excellent place to start! To help cultivate the techniques outlined in the Introductory Collection, some short preparatory scales and exercises have been included at the start of the book. All tunes have been arranged for up to 4 violins and piano/guitar! An Enhanced CD-Rom is included - this CD allows one to print off the piano/guitar accompaniments from a computer, and, when inserted into one's stereo, allows for play along with pre-recorded piano accompaniment track!
is book introduces children to bluesy violin techniques in a ground-breaking way that is both structured and fun. You will learn to slide the fingers using exercises and original composition that move from simple to intermediate levels. Suitable for adults as well. Includes access to online audio.
The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the CD to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book, you may also choose to sing along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! This volume includes the songs: Arkansas Traveler · Chicken Reel · Cluck Old Hen · Cotton Eyed Joe · Girl I Left Behind Me · Over the Waterfall · The Red Haired Boy · Turkey in the Straw.
Includes chords for all instruments on famous folk songs such as Billy Boy, Frankie and Johnny, Careless Love, and many more.
The Fiddle Chord Chart explores Major, Minor, Major 6, Minor 6, Dominant 7th, Diminished, Diminished 7th, and Augmented chords. For each chord quality, several voicings or ways to play the chord are illustrated with easy-to-read fingerboard diagrams. These diagrams display 2-note, 3-note, and 4-note foundational and functional voicings and can be used as a resource for harmony building on the fiddle.
The Essential String Method integrates musical awareness, creativity and technical development from the outset, developing the pupil as a musician as well as an instrumentalist right from the start through an integrated programme of games, activities, songs and pieces. Sheila Nelson's acclaimed teaching approach is a radical advance in the teaching of stringed instruments. Making their way through the series, pupils encounter an attractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire. The material is presented as a logical progression of musical activities involving both the instrument and the voice. These make learning fun and are easily incorporatedinto instrumental lessons, simultaneously developing the pupil's technical and musical abilities while reinforcing aspects of the National Curriculum. 4 easy-to-use books for each instrument (violin, viola, cello & double bass) offer a practical solution for today's instrumental teacher.A complete course for individual and group teaching.
While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs, stories, music, and dancing that is very much alive today. In Scotland, there are hundreds of ceilidh bands, each of which has their own trademark tune sets, making it possible for a man in a kilt to make a living as a performing musician. This book not only provides 85 Scottish tunes in sets as they might be used in a ceilidh event ”it also offers detailed, beat-by-beat descriptions of the dance steps for twenty-four dances! From The Highland Scottish to The Mooncoin Jig, with this book in hand, you'll be able to both play in the band and step to the music with the locals. The kilt is optional. Arranged for mandolin or fiddle with suggested chord backup, in standard notation only.
Volumes three and four of the Ceol na Fidhle - 'Highland Tunes for the Fiddle' series.
These are very popular tunes for fiddle taken for the bagipe repertoire. The books contain suggested bowings for fiddlers and chords for guitar or other accompanists and a great selection of 2/4 Pipe Marches, 6/8 Pipe Marches, Jigs, Reels, Slow airs, Hornpipes, Polkas, Strathspeys etc.
Many of these tunes are not available in fiddle settings in many other publication.
HIghland Tunes for the Fiddle. Another great selection of Highland fiddle and pipe tunes both old and new. It contains a wealth of tunes musicians have been looking for and couldn’t find!
This volume was issued ten years after finishing the original four volumes. After finding that I had collected a great many more pipe tunes over the intervening years and, as they were such good tunes, a further book was warranted to make these available to all the fiddlers and others out there looking for more good Highland tunes to play.
These represent some of the best Scottish pipe tunes being played today in Scotland.