Beginning Folk Fiddle

Introduction - 1: Getting Started - The Instrument and Its Parts - Strings - Changing Strings - The Bow - Posture - General Bowing Technique - Reading Music - Notes, Scales and Fingering - 2: Polkas - Mussels in the Corner - Mussels in the Corner v2 - Mussels in the Corner v3 - Bakerswell Polka - Bakerswell Polka v2 - Bakerswell Polka v3 - Blackwater Polka - Britches full of Stitches - Patrick O'Connor's - Astley's Ride - Seven Step Polka - 3: Jigs - The Connaughtman's Rambles - Tenpenny Bit - The Kesh - The Lilting Banshee - Ornamentation - The Cut - The Lilting Banshee (with cuts) - The Strayaway Child - Ornamentation - The Roll - The Banks of Lough Gowna - Ornamentation - The Double Cut - Donnybrook Fair - Ladies' Pleasure - 1. Miss Bennet's Jig - 2. Balcomie House - Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance - 4: Waltzes - Rose Connolly (Down in the Willow Garden) - Orange in Bloom - Planxty Irwin - Skye Boat Song - Star of the County Down - Unst Bridal March - Michael Turner's Waltz - Hewlett - A Starry Night in Shetland - Believe me, if all those endearing young charms - Westphalia Waltz - 5: Reels - St Anne's Reel - Man of the House - Red Haired Boy - The Maid behind the Bar - String Crossing - Drowsy Maggie - The Mountain Road - Leather Britches - Cumberland Gap - Chilly Winds - Lonesome John - 6: Hornpipes - Jacob - Plains of Boyle - Harvest Home - Off to California - Liverpool Hornpipe - Derry Hornpipe - King of the Fairies - Fisher's Hornpipe (Original) - Fisher's Hornpipe (American) - 7: Miscellaneous Tunes - Coleman's Slip Jig - Kid on the Mountain - The Foggy Dew - Coleman's March - Scott Skinner's Compliments to Doctor MacDonald - John McAlpine's Strathspey - Devil in the Kitchen - Lahna-Villes Schottis - Lahna-Villes Schottis (with mordents) - Sherele - Arkan (Hutsul Dance) - A Barca Vira - Bonaparte's Retreat - 8: Versions and Variations - The Golden Eagle (standard version) - The Golden Eagle (simplified) - The Golden Eagle (Contest style) - Shepherd's Hey -