Take your next steps with Fiddle Studio!
Updated in 2025, the second edition of Fiddle Studio Book 2 fixes errors, updates links and product info, and adds even more fiddle tunes.
Learn more tunes in more styles and bring your technique to the next level. In this book Megan Wobus Beller, the founder of Fiddle Studio, takes the tunes and techniques from the second year of fiddle lessons and puts it all in one place.These are techniques and tunes for players with some experience looking to take their next steps. Over 30 fiddle tunes are organized into reels, jigs, and old-time tunes. Each tune is presented first with fingerings, and then in standard notation with chords.
Book 2 topics: technique review, holding with your head, thumb inside the bow, basic music theory, reading notes, reading rhythm, up and down bows, slurs, common keys, how to practice scales, finger blocking, independent fingers, taking tapes off, light fingers, sliding to the note, test your hearing, perfect pitch, relative pitch, learning intervals, jumping in, always repeat, playing it twice, sets, making your tune list, sight reading, evaluating your practice routine, practicing longer.
Book 2 tunes:
Old-Time tunes: Old Billy Hell, Horses in the Canebreak, Old Aunt Jenny, Cumberland Gap, Chinquapin Hunting, Greasy Coat, Redwing, Kitchen Girl, Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss, Red Prairie Dawn, Gilsaw, Porter's Reel, Squirrel Hunters, Shippensport
Jigs: My Darling Asleep, Behind the Bush in the Garden, Blackthorn Stick, Rolling Waves, Indian Point, Irishman's Heart to the Ladies, Out on the Ocean, Do You Want Any More?, Swallowtail Jig, Calliope House
Reels: Reel de Montreal, Bus Stop Reel, Come Dance and Sing, Devil's Dream, St. Joseph's Reel, The Banshee, Cat on the Roof, The Abbey, The Reconciliation, The Congress, Silver Spear, Evit Gabriel
Plus waltzes Si Bheag Si Mor, The Crested Hens and The Pig Ankle Rag
For teachers: Megan brings a unique perspective from studying classical violin and music education at Eastman, Suzuki training, and growing up fiddling. If you teach violin and are looking for authentic fiddle tunes your students will love, this book has tunes for beginner and advanced beginner fiddlers in Suzuki Book 2 and beyond. If you are a fiddle teacher who wants to support your students with musical know-how and technique pulled from the classical world this book has you covered.
