Welcome, fiddlers! Check out the video below on bow squeakies! And check out the tunes below to play along with or learn by ear!

 Beginner Violin Handout

  1. Standing Rest Position & the DAD Song

  2. Pepperoni Pizza Song

  3. Mary Had a Little Lamb

  4. Hot Crossed Buns

  5. Lightly Row

American Fiddle Method Book 1

  1. Boil ‘em Cabbage Down

  2. with Double Stops

  3. Shortnin’ Bread

  4. Cripple Creek

  5. Camptown Races

  6. Angelina Baker

  7. Buffalo Gals

  8. Cindy

  9. Crawdad Song

  10. Old Joe Clark

  11. Soldier’s Joy

  12. Arran Boat Song

  13. Bonaparte’s Retreat

  14. Country Waltz

  15. Red Haired Boy

  16. Girl I Left Behind Me

  17. Southwind

  18. Red Wing

  19. Cairo

  20. Turkey in the Straw

  21. Grandfather’s Clock

  22. Wise Old Friend

  23. Stinky’s Blues

  24. Hi-Lo Schottishe

Suzuki

  1. May Song

  2. Long, Long Ago

  3. Allegro

Learn by Ear & Student Requests

The more we listen to music and try to figure it out by watching and listening, the easier learning by ear becomes! Try learning some tunes by ear in this order.

  1. Nineteen Duos by Devienne, part 1

  2. Nineteen Duos by Devienne, part 2

  3. Cluck Old Hen

  4. Little Bunny Foo Foo

  5. Mr. Grinch - left handed!

  6. Shifting Exercise for Emme 12/6/2019

  7. F major scale to Bb

  8. Joy to the World

  9. Back Up and Push

  10. Angel Band

  11. Soldier’s Joy

  12. Simple Gifts

  13. As the Deer

  14. Be Thou My Vision

  15. You Are My Sunshine

  16. 8th of January

  17. Crawdad Song

  18. Old Joe Clark - Grasshopper Variation

  19. Si Bheag, Si Mhor

  20. The Parting Glass

  21. The Parting Glass - with Embellishments

  22. Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger

  23. Flow Gently Sweet Afton

  24. Rubber Dolly

  25. The Crested Hen

  26. Temperance Reel

  27. East Tennessee Blues, violin 1

  28. East Tennessee Blues, violin 2

  29. Old Town Road

  30. Smith’s Reel - Part D

  31. The Isle of Mango Bay

  32. O Holy Night - key of A

  33. O Holy Night - key of C

  34. Hey There Delilah

  35. Swallow’s Tail Reel into Swallow Tail Jig

  36. Swallow Tail Jig into Swallow’s Tail Reel (Use this one, Emme!)

  37. Whiskey Before Breakfast

  38. Backing Track for Whiskey Before Breakfast

  39. Hallelujah

  40. John Ryan’s Polka

  41. June Apple

  42. June apple last B part with tag

  43. Margaret’s Waltz guitar accomp

  44. It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing

  45. Swing Low with Vocals

  46. Swing Low without Vocals

  47. Red Haired Boy

  48. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

  49. Dancin’ in the Moonlight

  50. Dancin’ Outro

  51. Hymne

  52. Where My Free Spirit

  53. Down by the Sally Gardens

  54. Whiskey Before Breakfast

  55. Harvest Home Hornpipe - Viola edition!

DDAD Tuning

  1. Midnight on the Water

  2. Midnight on the Water/Bonaparte’s Retreat