Gordon Stobbe

Author: Gordon Stobbe
Format: Book with CD
Instrumentation: Fiddle

The third book in the "Of Course You Can..." series features an in-depth study of 20 fiddle tunes in 8 keys suitable for intermediate players. Tunes include waltzes, jigs, reels, two-steps, a hornpipe, a fox-trot, a Metis tune, some tunes from Scandanavia and three tunes with harmony parts. Each tune comes with its own page of exercises covering scale, arpeggio, bowing and rhythmic aspects of the tune. Included are scale and arpeggio diagrams for all keys used in the book as well as a discussion of bowing techniques.
The accompanying 70 minute CD, with fiddle in the left channel and guitar in the right channel, includes all exercises, all tunes played slowly, and all tunes played at speed.

Contents:

• Exercises and Tunes
  • Captain O'Kane
  • Claybank Reel
  • Driftwood Hormpipe
  • Gasvikarns Vals
  • La Claqueuse
  • Laid a Herring in Salt
  • Loggieville Two-Step
  • Maple Leaf Two Step
  • Miss Wedderburn's Reel
  • Mitton's Breakdown
  • Old Reel of Eight
  • P.M. Waltz
  • Put Me in the Big Box
  • Seaforth Two Step
  • Seamus O'Brien
  • Stan Lennox's First Change
  • Stoltzman's Jig
  • Svenska Shottis
  • Trans Canada Jig
  • Walking Uptown
• Other Stuff
  • Arpeggios - what and why
  • Bowing exercises
  • CD contents
  • Scales and arpeggios
  • You and your right hand