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How to Play Fiddle in 14 Days

Beginner Fiddle Method Book

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One of our first series, this method book for fiddle will teach you the basics and have you sounding great quickly!

Easy beginner level

For complete beginners

90 minute lessons

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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!

Songs & Melodies
How to Hold the Fiddle
Proper Bowing Technique
Major Scales & Intervals
Basic Music Theory
Fundamental Rhythms
Standard Fiddle/Violin Notation & Tab

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Meet author Bethany Olds

Author of the best-selling How to Play Violin in 14 Days, Montana-native Bethany Olds started playing fiddle and violin 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.

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