Gordon Stobbe Of Course You Can Play the Fiddle, Book 2 - Stobbe - Book/CD

Author: Gordon Stobbe
Format: Book with CD
Instrumentation: Fiddle

This is the second book in the "Of Course You Can..." series for beginning to intermediate students of the fiddle. This book features an in-depth study of 20 fiddle tunes in 5 keys. Tunes include waltzes, jigs, reels, polkas, rags, a hornpipe and a strathspey. Each tune comes with its own page of exercises covering scale, arpeggio, bowing and rhythmic aspects of the tune. Also included are scale and arpeggio diagrams for all keys featured in the book as well as a discussion of accents in fiddle music.
The 70 minute CD, with fiddle in the left channel and guitar in the right channel, includes all exercises, all tunes played slowly, and all tunes played at speed.

Contents:

• Exercises and Tunes
  • Black Velvet Waltz
  • Mason's Apron
  • Country Waltz
  • Old Man and Old Woman
  • Dennis Murphy's Polka
  • Pelican Reel
  • Fox Trot Rag
  • Redwing
  • Galway Hornpipe
  • River John Sunset Waltz
  • Gigue des Capuchons
  • St.Anne's Reel
  • Gigue des Sucres
  • Seven Step
  • Ingonish Jig
  • Sherbrooke Reel
  • Iron Man Strathspey
  • Stone's Rag
  • Log Driver's Waltz
  • Traveller's Jig
• Other Stuff
  • Accents
  • Key signatures
  • Bowing basics
  • Relative keys
  • CD contents
  • Scales and arpeggios