American Fiddle Method Volume 1 Book/CD Set

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Summary: This is the best fiddle method book available!
Review: Brian Wicklund's American Fiddle Method is an idea whose time has come. It's well organized, correctly paced, and most importantly, it teaches the real stuff.

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Summary: Good Starter book
Review: Having just starting playing the fiddle again after a 25 year layoff, I have found this book a great learning tool. You will need a basic understanding of how to play and the abilty to read music.

The songs are chorded which allows other insturments to play along such as a guitar or Mandolin. Not to mention the CD that comes with the book allowing you to work on timing and intonation.

This book is a great companion book for players who are fimilar with at least first postion scales and fingerings.

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Summary: Good starter book.
Review: I am just learning to play fiddle. I already know how to read music and play a little trumpet, french horn, piano and guitar. But fiddle is new to me and this book is a terrific beginner book. I really enjoy the cd play along, it makes it much more fun to feel like you are having a jam session. I don't have other musician's around to play with so I really like the cd. The book is easy to follow, and has served me well as my teacher, since there are also no fiddle teachers where I live. I would definitely recommend this book. I am looking for more book/cd combos like this one so that I can continue to improve my fiddling.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I like the combination of ear-training and sight-reading. This method combines all of the fundamentals of fiddling with a dose of humor.

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Summary: Great Method - Great Fun
Review: I studied classical violin many years ago and never played fiddle
tunes. After picking up the violin again recently I found and bought both volumes of this fiddle method and am truly enjoying learning a tune every few days. The songs are graded from easy
to difficult, with a good mix of tempo and keys. This is a wonderful, fun method. The CD is an excellent learning tool - listen and play along!

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Summary: I would definitely recommend this book.
Review: The songs are well graded and appropriate for beginners, the illustrations are helpful and fun, and the recording that accompanies the book is excellent.

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Summary: I am anxious to begin using it with my students!
Review: This method is very adaptable to Suzuki private studio and public school teaching as well as do-yourself beginners.

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Summary: Wicklund has put together a delightful fiddle primer.
Review: While nothing takes the place of hard work, this method is the best fiddle primer I have seen.