How to Play Fiddle in 14 Days: Daily Fiddle Lessons for Absolute Beginners (Play Music in 14 Days)

Are you ready to learn how to play fiddle? Start here! How to Play Fiddle in 14 Days is the ultimate fiddle playing book for absolute beginners or violin players wishing to expand their horizons.
In this practical, step-by-step guide, Award-winning fiddle player and master violin instructor Bethany Olds teaches you the essential elements you need to know to get started as a fiddle player. And the best part? No music reading is required! Inside this book, songs, melodies, and music exercises are presented in both standard notation and easy-to-use fiddle/violin tab, so you can choose which method you prefer—or use both!With this book, you can learn how to play fiddle music!
Fiddle is no different than any other instrument, and with steady, mindful practice, you can learn to play it in just two weeks, because How to Play Fiddle in 14 Days is written with the absolute beginner in mind!
This fiddle book for beginners is jam-packed with fundamental fiddle skills and exercises!
For adult beginners and kids alike, in just two weeks, you’ll learn fiddle instruction, including:

Songs & Melodies

How to Hold the Fiddle

Proper Bowing Technique

Major Scales & Intervals

Basic Music Theory

Fundamental Rhythms

Standard Fiddle/Violin Notation & Tab

What makes this beginner fiddle book for adults different?
How to Play Fiddle in 14 Days is an innovative method for learning to play the fiddle. The instructional material is not only easy to use and follow, but also cutting-edge in its approach to fiddle playing. While most fiddle and violin methods teach only standard music reading, How to Play Fiddle in 14 Days includes fiddle/violin tab for all songs, melodies, and music exercises to speed up the learning process. In other words, fiddle tab will have you playing the music quicker while simultaneously helping you to learn and read standard music notation.
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Includes tons of music notes, easy-to-play melodies, and fiddle tunes, including bluegrass fiddle music favorites Angelina Baker, Old Joe Clark, Amazing Grace, and Skater's Waltz. Enjoy the fiddle magic!Read it! Hear it! Play it!
Music examples are presented in both notes and tab. This practical, step-by-step guide to beginning fiddle includes quick-and-easy access to audio tracks via download or streaming—right from troynelsonmusic.com. No signup required!
About Bethany Olds: Montana-native Bethany Olds started playing violin and fiddle when she was 14 and began competing a year later. As a competitive fiddler, she won several major titles, including 1997 National Junior Fiddle Champion, 1998 and 1999 Montana State Fiddle Champion, and 2001 Tennessee State Fiddle Champion. She moved to Nashville in 2000, and since then has been the fiddle player for both Sara Evans and Pam Tillis. She has also been a session player in both Atlanta and Nashville, and won a Dove Award in 2010 for her participation on the Glory Revealed II album.
Bethany has taught beginner violin and all levels of fiddle since 1997. Over the years, she’s learned to adapt her teaching style to each student’s learning strengths. Bethany’s ultimate goal as a teacher is to give her students the ability to play and enjoy the music they love.
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