Fiddle & Violin Instructional Books, CDs & DVDs
Fiddler's Fakebook American Fiddle Method-1 American Fiddle Method-2 Deluxe Fiddling Method
Parking Lot Pickers 50 Tunes For Fiddle Violin Primer Scales in First Positions Scales Plus
 | The Fiddler's Fakebook
by David Brody- Book: 302 pages
- 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
$24.95 |
 | The American Fiddle Method Book 1 with CD
by Brian Wicklund- Book: 64 pages
- Level: Beginner
- 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.
- Encourages creativity in the student by including variations to the tunes and illustrating how they can serve as a basis for improvisation.
- Assists in the development of ensemble skills, chords and lyrics, basic music theory, and demonstrations of such skills as backup and lead playing are included in this profusely- illustrated book.
- A CD for listening and play-along captures the excitement of the music and aids instruction.
- This book is beneficial for both fiddle students and classical Suzuki violin students.
List of Songs $24.95 |
 | The American Fiddle Method Book 2 with CD
by Brian Wicklund- Book: 64 pages
- Level: Intermediate
Designed as a follow-up to Volume 1, Volume 2 addresses such important skills as: - Expanding a basic repertoire of common intermediate-level tunes
- Learning to use low first position
- Mastery of bowing down on the beat and corrective slurring
- Artistic slurring
- Understanding basic music theory
- Learning double-stop backup combinations
- Some students who have studied violin or fiddle music before may be able to skip Volume 1 and start with Volume 2, if they are proficient at skills such as proper violin and bow placement and can play a small repertoire of fiddle tunes with good tone and intonation
List of Songs $24.95 |
 | Deluxe Fiddling Method Book with CD
by Craig Duncan- Book: 104 pages
- Level: Multi Level
- The most widely-used fiddle method book
- Progressing from simple to more complex renditions of tunes
- 49 Tunes
- The CD is in split-track format, allowing the fiddler to play with the fiddle solo, guitar and/or fiddle accompaniment, or both
- All 49 tunes are played on the CD
List of Songs $19.95 |
 | Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Fiddle Edition with 2 CDs
By Gerald Jones & Dick Bruce
- Book: 280 pages
- Level: Multiple Levels
Contents: - Over 200 great bluegrass, old time, country and gospel standards played by jammers and performers all over the world
- Melodies are presented with standard notation, 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.
- Includes step-by-step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key plus tips on fiddling by co-author Gerald Jones
- The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book
List of Songs $34.95 |
 | 50 Tunes For Fiddle Book with 3 CDs
by Mark Geslison - Book: 144 pages
- Level: Multi Level
- Collection of Bluegrass, Old Time and Celtic tunes
- All tunes contain a simple melody and most of the tunes contain an intermediate or advanced part
- Many tunes contain a harmony part to match the melody
- Contains hoedowns, waltzes, reels, rags, hornpipes, jigs, polkas and airs
- Some of the tunes are authentic to true championship fiddling and were arranged and recorded by a former national champion fiddler
- Companion CD’s included.
- Tunes recorded by full band, not all instruments featured in every song.
List of Songs $29.95 |
 | The Violin Primer Book with CD
by Jim Tolles- Book: 49 pages
- CD: 57 minutes
- Level: Beginner
Contents: - Parts of the Violin and Bow
- Bow Preparation
- Tuning
- Holding the Violin
- Left Hand and Arm Position
- Holding the Bow
- Music Notation
- Slurs
- Scales
- Ties
$14.95 |
Songs:- Alphabet Song
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- Sunday Waltz
- Jenny Pluck Pears
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Red River Valley
- Sweet on Violin
- Seagulls & Seals
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 | Scales in First Position Book - Violin
by Harvey S. Whistler- Book: 32 pages
- Level: Beginner & Intermediate
Contents: - Covers all keys up to three sharps/flats and their relative minors
- Exercises are made interesting (and effective) with the use of numerous formats, including:
- Slurred, staccato, detached and detache bowings
- Rhythmic exercises in all time signatures for both scales and arpeggios
- Long tone scales for tone study
- Scales in broken thirds and broken sixths
- Includes a full page each of daily scale exercises and chromatic exercises
$4.95 |
 | Scales Plus! Book - Violin
by William Starr- Book: 48 pages
- Level: All Levels
Contents: - Scales Plus! is the first all-inclusive study of scales, keys, intonation, positions, and shifts in one volume
- It is designed for “nearly” beginners to advanced students
- Teachers will be delighted with the concepts underlying the development of excellent intonation, great facility in reading and playing in different keys and positions and great facility and accuracy with shifts
- Contains 1,234 common key patterns, 128 common shifts and 106 lines of exercises for 3-octave scales and arpeggios
$8.95 |
