A sparkling, comprehensive collection of 75 lively flatpicking guitar "fiddle tunes"!  Beginning with 18 pages of introductory, performance and tutorial notes.  The all-Irish titles are presented in sections: reels, strathspeys, breakdowns, hornpipes, jigs, slip- jigs, set dances, airs and waltzes. All tunes are written as single-line melodies for flat-picked guitar chords over the staff. Additional notes and references, plus a discography are included at the end. Tunes from the book are derived from different cultures, there is little or no overlap of titles regarding the book and "Complete Fiddle Tunes for Acoustic Guitar" (95471). In notation and tablature. The split-track recording includes Dan Gelo's teaching on the various techniques

Introduction

• Left-Hand Technique
• Left-Hand Positioning
• Hammers, Pull-offs, and Slides
• Right-Hand Technique
• Accompaniment
• Learning the Tunes
• The Capo
• Key Signatures
• Types of Fiddle Tunes

REELS

• Sergeant Early's Dream
• Lady's Fancy
• The Silver Spire
• Grey Daylight
• Miller's
• Jennie's Chickens
• Tullochgorum
• The Scholar
• Mason's Apron
• Jenny Picking Cockles
• George White's Favorite
• The Ten Pound Fiddle
• Swinging on a Gate
• The Blackthorn Stick
• The Fermoy Lasses
• The Spanish Lady
• Guilderoy
• Music in the Glen

STRATHSPEYS

• Caledonian Hunt
• Money Musk
• Marquis of Huntly's
• Miss Ramsey's

BREAKDOWNS

• Texas Quickstep
• Sandy Land
• Flop-Eared Mule
• Westfork Gals
• Sugar in the Gourd
• Little Black Mustache
• Leather Breeches
• Santa Annds March
• Katy Hill
• Ragtime Annie
• Going to jail
• Rocky Mountain Goat
• Boatman
• Liberty
• Goodbye Liza Jane
• Kitchen Girl
• Cotton Picking

HORNPIPES

• Little Stack of Wheat
• Rickett's
• The Banks
• Durang's
• Murphy's
• Flowers of Edinburgh
• The Cuckoo's Nest
• The Rights of Man
• Sailor's
• The Old Woman's

JIGS

• Tatter Jack Walsh
• The Cowboy's
• King of the Pipers
• Hullichan's
• Rathawaun
• The Carraroe
• Brian O'Lynn
• Padraic O'Keeffe's
• The Old Grey Goose
• Banish Misfortune
• Light and Airy
• Ballinasloe Fair
• Nancy Hynes
• The Mug of Brown Ale
• Tobin's Favorite
• Moloney's Wife

SLIP JIGS

• The Kid on the Mountain
• Forde's

SET DANCES

• The Ace and Deuce of Pipering
• Madame Bonaparte

AIRS

• The Minstrel Boy
• The Wild Geese
• Reynard the Fox
• Loch na Garr

WALTZES

• Young Jane
• My Own House

Discography

Bibliography

Chord Charts

Some More Chords

Notes and References