Technique

SING IT FIRST. Then try strumming while singing. Do not forget your potatoes.

Beginner Fiddle Backup with 1-4-5 chords

Playing Fiddle Backup for a Song you have never heard

Peak Fiddler You Tube channel

MOlsky bow strokes

Judelman bow technique

Judelman OT bow technique

Judelman bow holds

Darol Anger bow hold

Darol Anger 4th finger workout

Darol Anger improvisation

Rhys Jones Rock bow: first bow on chord, second on lower note

Outside Playlists

Dave's Repertoire

Angeline the Baker in DM

Liberty in DM

Mississippi Sawyer in DM

Sally Ann (in 3 parts) in DM

Ways of the World in DM

West Fork Gals in DM

Soldier's Joy in DM

Dance Band Repertoire

Source Annotations

Playlist

Bill Cheatum --> Devil's Dream

Ida Red --> June Apple --> Little Liza Jane

Old Mother Flanagan -- > Old Joe Clark

Paddy on Turnpike --> Western Country

Peacock Feather --> Staten Island

St Anne's Reel -- > Over the Waterfall

Woodchoppers --> Liberty -or- Woodchoppers -->Don Tremain

Angeline the Baker

Ashokan Farewell

Bill Cheatum, A Major

Billy in the Low Ground

Blackest Crow

Cumberland Gap

Devil's Dream

Don Tremains Reel

Weitten by Graham Townsend

Ida Red

June Apple

Liberty aka Liberty Two-Step

(DM, popular among Cajun, Ozark, and Old Time fiddlers)

Little Liza Jane

Midnight on the Water

According to the Waltz Book I, Luke Thomasson wrote it, but Benny Thomasson holds the copywright on it through the Winwood Music Company.

Midnight on the Water -> Bonapartes Retreat -> Margarets

Miss McClouds Reel

Mississippi Sawyer

Old Joe Clark

(Bluegrass, Old Time, A . Originated in E KY, lyrics refer to a real KY Mountaineer, Joesph Clark.

Old Mother Flanagan

[Ozarks / Appalachian tune tune, G or A, goes with Liza Jane ][Possibly derived from Irish] Sometimes AEAE

Over the Waterfall in D

Paddy on Turnpike

Peacock Feather Hornpike, Irish

Saint Anne's Reel in DM

Sally Anne

This and Sail Away are very similar.

Soldier's Joy

Traces original to Scottish fiddling, where it has been played for over 200 years. AKA 'I am my mothers Darling Boy'.

Staten Island Hornpipe

: suggested sets at Irishtune.info.

Toy Waltz, Waltz of the Toys, La Valse Des Jouets

Waiting for the Federals

Ways of The World

West Fork Gals

Western Country or Susanna Gal

Wissahickon Drive Reel

Woodchoppers (French Canadian)

Angeline the Baker

UPDATED Dec 2 2025