Schwarz,Tracy Learn To Fiddle Country Style CD

Tracy Schwarz, of New Lost City Ramblers renown, offers instruction on playing the fiddle on this 1965 release. He takes a simple tune (the old-time classic, "Cripple Creek") and walks listeners through different ways to add variations, including adding more notes, drones (playing on two strings), or changing bow strokes. He also demonstrates different techniques such as vibrato. Liner notes include a transcription of the song text, illustrations of scale finger patterns for different musical keys, and an essay by fellow Rambler, John Cohen, on bluegrass, country, and old-time music and their growing popularity in cities and on college campuses.

1. Tuning 2. The Scale of a 3. Base and Unison Notes 4. The Saw Stroke 5. Learning Cripple Creek with the Saw Stroke 6. Cripple Creek with More Notes 7. Double String Runs 8. Saw Stroke Version of Cripple Creek 9. Nashville Shuffle Stroke 10. Nashville Shuffle Version of Cripple Creek 11. Combined Nashville Shuffle and Saw Strokes 12. Cripple Creek Using Combined Nashville Shuffle and Saw Strokes 13. Long Bow Stroke 14. Cripple Creek Using Only the Long Bow Stroke 15. Combining the Long Bow and Saw Strokes 16. Combination of Long Bow and Nashville Shuffle Strokes in Old Joe Clark 17. Combination of Long Bow, Saw, and Nashville Shuffle Strokes in Cripple Creek 18. Base, Unison, and Octave Notes in G 19. Leather Britches in G 20. Key of D 21. Ragtime Annie in D 22. Key of C 23. Texas Waggoner in C 24. Double Stops in G 25. Double Stops in D 26. Double Stops in a 27. Double Stops in C 28. Country Vibrato 29. Sliding Into Notes 30. Open G and a Tunings 31. Black MT. Blues a Tuning 32. Black Mountain Blues 33. Bonapart's Retreat (D Tuning #1) 34. Bonapart's Retreat 35. D Tunings #2 and #3 36. Rocking the Bow 37. Jolly Blacksmiths in a 38. Trills 39. Soldier's Joy in D with An Old Time Start 40. Single String Runs 41. Bluegrass Fiddle in 3/4 Time 42. Bluegrass Fiddle Lead in 4/4 Time 43. Fiddle Tune Type Lead in 4/4 Time 44. Bluegrass Vibrato 45. Double Shuffle 46. Banjo-Fiddle Music 47. Guitar-Fiddle Music 48. Guitar-Banjo-Fiddle Music