Old Time Tunebooks

100 Tunes for Piano Accordion $14.95

David DiGiuseppe

Complete with fingering, left-hand notation and chord symbols.

A Fiddle Player's Guide to Jamming $14.95 with CD

Carl Yaffey and John Sherman

A really excellent book on the topic indicated by the title. It includes everything you need to know about playing with other people. Chapters include anatomy of a jam session, chords and keys, perdcussive vamping, melodic fills, harmony lines, taking a solo, double stopping, and most imoprtant jam session etiquette and rules! Also included are words and chords for several of the most popular songs and a CD for learning to play along! This is an incredible book- not too big but full of really important content for the beginning aspiring bluegrass, old-timey or folk musician.

Appalachian Fiddle $17.95

Miles Krassen

This book shows you all the major technical features of mountain fiddling: tunings, fingerings, and bowings and gives you an abundance of tunes to work with asd you acquire proficiency. Contains a particularly good section on appropriate double stops and all the tunes that would be considered classics in the old-timey repetoire.

Back-Up Trax for Old Time & Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 $17.95 with CD

Dix Bruce

14 very common popular tunes that have withstood the test of time- Temperence Reel, Sally Goodin', June Apple, Old, Joe Clark, Billy in the Low Ground, and more. The purpose of the Back-Up Trax series is to give musicians a rhythm section to play along with and rehearse melidies, solos, licks and rhythm playing. BackUp Trax offers the advantage of infinite repetition; you can work on a tune for hours, perfecting it without wearing out your fellow players! The opportunities for advancing your reading and improvising skills while expanding your repertoire are unlimited. Melodies are recorded at about 1/2 speed with just guitar accompaniment before each track with with the full band. Instruments are isolated and panned for maximum flexibility. So go to work!!!

Beginning Old-Time Fiddle $21.95 with CD

Alan Kaufman

One of the very first how--to-play-fiddle books, first published in 1977 with of course a little plastic LP in the back! Excellent introductory section with simple but effective illustrations that take you right from the very beginning of playing- fiddle parts, bow angle, rhythn, tuning and much much more. The first full tune doesn't come for 28 pages and this is a good thing, with all you need to learn before you start! An interesting selection of tunes from the Old-Time and Irish traditions are arranged in order of key signature and difficulty. Extensive discography. Or you could just move to Boston and get lessons from Alan.

Children's Graded Fiddle Solos Vol 1 $19.95 with CD

Carol Ann Wheeler

A much needed book! Twelve traditional tunes, mostly from the old-timey repetoire are notated in three different skill levels, from rank beginner to the advanced student. CD gives audio version of each level, as ornamantation increases accordingly. Bowings and chord progressions are indicated throughout. NOT JUST FOR CHILDREN; GREAT FOR ANY BEGINNING TO INTERMEDIATE PLAYER!!!

Encyclopedia of Irish and American Fiddle Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar $24.95 with CD

Duck Baker

A pile of good tunes.

Favorite America Rags and Blues $12.95

Stacy Phillips

Culled from Stacy's American Fiddle Tunes Volume 2, now out of print.

Great Fiddlers of America $9.95

Nice transcriptions of tunes by well known old-timey and bluegrass fiddlers such as Alison Kraus, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor and many more.

Old Time Fiddling Across America Book and cassette $21.95

Nice overview of regional tunes across the country. Good history, annotation, photos.

Southern Mountain Fiddle Book-CD $26.95

by Wayne Erbsen

Instruction, lyrics, chords from the southern tradition.