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03-15-2017, 06:50 AM
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Fiddle Tunes Beginner Book
Anyone got any advice on a book of UK fiddle tunes for a Grade 2-3 violin player. A similarly levelled mandolin book might also do the trick. Need to have a break from exam pieces and have some fun!!
One with a CD would be good and I need to stress Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh folk tunes - not that I personally have anything against US tunes, but it's not for me and it's easier for a child if the tunes are already known. TIA 
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03-15-2017, 07:47 AM
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Here are two books by Robin Williamson that have tunes from all those countries. Many of the tunes are fairly easy, with some that are more challenging, but all are good and very playable. I think they are still available, as there are links for buying them. I have both books and love them. The tunes in the Penny Whistle book are playable on any instrument, doesn't have to be a penny whistle. Links:
https://www.amazon.com/English-Welsh.../dp/0825601657 https://www.amazon.com/Penny-Whistle.../dp/0825601908 Jack
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03-15-2017, 08:22 AM
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I regularly run into very simple celtic fiddle or penny whistle books in used book stores. Often very cheap due to the "pamphlet" like construction of the books. They usually have green hard/construction paper covers
 . I've only bought one, because they usually have 30 to 40 tunes in them and that's all I need.
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I only play technologically cutting edge instruments. Parker Flys and National Resonators Last edited by blue; 03-15-2017 at 08:30 AM.
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03-15-2017, 08:27 AM
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Just searched Ebay and found this for $15, with CD
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Folk-Songs-f...MAAOSwuMFUdtJw But this one is the one I would get for $6.50. I prefer a basic outline I can play over. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300-Fiddle-T...EAAOSwWxNYttCz
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03-15-2017, 08:56 AM
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I don't really know what it means to be a level 2-3 player, but I would ignorantly characterize my guitar playing in that range. I played out of the Williamson fiddle tunes book for lessons and found it to be just great. My guitar teacher teaches mando as well. He put me together with Mando students and we found a couple of fiddlers to play with in our jams. Play a lot of the tunes in the Williamson book. If you have access to looking at music on line, the Vashon Celtic Tunes website has loads of music of this style on line for free. Simple to play too.
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03-15-2017, 09:25 AM
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www.mandozine.com has all sorts of tab files in the *.tef format. If you download the free "tabeditviewer" you can open these files. While they are called, "Tabedit" files, you can make them show standard notation, as the tab would be for the mandolin.
Search the tabedit files for old-time, for example. You will see dozens (hundreds) of fiddle tunes. I can get lost for hours playing fiddle tunes! Great therapy! f-d
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03-15-2017, 03:19 PM
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Thanks for the suggestions so far, folks. The mandozine site is a good resource I'd not come across, though I've had tabs from the mandolincafe site. Penny whistle books are a good idea too - and I'm a huge fan of Robin Williamson as well.
To clarify Grade 2-3, these are classical exam grades, so involve violin pieces generally in G and D and their associated minor keys, which generally hover around the first 5 positions with some little finger stretching up to 7th and 9th. The classical stuff is a necessary evil in the UK for going up the sections in orchestras, but fiddle is a lot more fun. EDIT: that Vashon Celtic Tunes site is really good! 
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