Beginner Fiddle Lessons | FiddleHed Online Course

It’s hard to learn the fiddle on your own.

With FiddleHed as your guide, you’ll learn fun tunes which help you develop specific skills. With our “Small Steps Small Wins” fiddlosophy, you’ll have fun as you make measurable progress.

Beginner Fiddle Skills You’ll Learn

Here are some of the FUNdamental skills you’ll learn

Getting a good sound with the bow on open strings
String crossing
Left-hand fingering
Ear-training with call-and-response games
Drone-tuning
Note-reading
Major and minor scales
Adding variation to tunes
Transposing tunes
How to remember fiddle tunes

Beginner Fiddle Songs And Tunes

As you learn each of the skills listed above, you’ll learn specific tunes and songs to practice those skills.

Bile ’em Cabbage Down
Wildwood Flower
Blackest Crow
Auld Lang Syne
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Shady Grove
I’ll Fly Away
Road to Lisdonverna
Swallowtail Jig
Arkansas Traveller

And more! In the beginner course you’ll learn forty core tunes. You’ll also have the option to supplement your learning with 50 Bonus tunes, all presented in order of difficulty.

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Songs are broken down into bite-sized chunks

All songs are broken into a series of smaller and smaller chunks. This helps you learn new songs more easily. But even better, you learn how to learn new songs by breaking them into smaller chunks.

For example, Kerry Polka Hasan A and a B part. We can break the A part into quarters. Then we break the first quarter down even further. This helps you to master every challenge.

Kerry Polka, A Part, First Quarter

Intervals

D0-0-1-1

A1-1-D0-0

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First quarter: A1-D0-1-0-A1-D0-1-0

Since the first and second bars are the same, you just need to practice the play-along track for the first bar 🙂

Beginner Course Modules

Here’s a brief run-down of each module in the beginner course.

1.1 Start Fiddling Now!

This where you start if you’re an absolute beginner. You’ll learn essential skills like posture, plucking, bowing, fingering, string crossing and more. Whew! And you’ll practice these new found skills with three tunes that present you with the perfect challenge:Bile ’em Cabbage Down, Mary Had A Little Lamb,Twinkle Little Star.