You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling

Designed for beginning fiddle students, these 36 lessons present basictechniques 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 an audio download available online. Forty-eight songs from the book are on the audio download. The online video 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

• | Author: Craig Duncan
• | Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 80 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0786689900
• | ISBN-13: 9780786689903