Learn to Fiddle Country Style

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.

Track Listing

101	Tuning	Tracy Schwarz	01:23
102	The Scale of A	Tracy Schwarz	02:42
103	Base and Unison Notes	Tracy Schwarz	01:28
104	The Saw Stroke	Tracy Schwarz	01:30
105	Learning Cripple Creek with the Saw Stroke	Tracy Schwarz	00:51
106	Cripple Creek with More Notes	Tracy Schwarz	00:49
107	Double String Runs	Tracy Schwarz	00:47
108	Saw Stroke Version of Cripple Creek	Tracy Schwarz	00:51
109	Nashville Shuffle Stroke	Tracy Schwarz	01:26
110	Nashville Shuffle Version of Cripple Creek	Tracy Schwarz	00:52
111	Combined Nashville Shuffle and Saw Strokes	Tracy Schwarz	01:19
112	Cripple Creek Using Combined Nashville Shuffle and Saw Strokes	Tracy Schwarz	00:51
113	Long Bow Stroke	Tracy Schwarz	01:16
114	Cripple Creek Using Only the Long Bow Stroke	Tracy Schwarz	00:56
115	Combining the Long Bow and Saw Strokes	Tracy Schwarz	01:07
116	Combination of Long Bow and Nashville Shuffle Strokes in Old Joe Clark	Tracy Schwarz	00:40
117	Combination of Long Bow, Saw, and Nashville Shuffle Strokes in Cripple Creek	Tracy Schwarz	00:54
118	Base, Unison, and Octave Notes in G	Tracy Schwarz	00:40
119	Leather Britches in G	Tracy Schwarz	00:55
120	Key of D	Tracy Schwarz	01:14
121	Ragtime Annie in D	Tracy Schwarz	01:29
201	Key of C	Tracy Schwarz	01:11
202	Texas Waggoner in C	Tracy Schwarz	01:04
203	Double Stops in G	Tracy Schwarz	01:18
204	Double Stops in D	Tracy Schwarz	00:50
205	Double Stops in A	Tracy Schwarz	00:45
206	Double Stops in C	Tracy Schwarz	00:51
207	Country Vibrato	Tracy Schwarz	00:14
208	Sliding into Notes	Tracy Schwarz	00:39
209	Open G and A Tunings	Tracy Schwarz	00:35
210	Black Mt. Blues A Tuning	Tracy Schwarz	00:25
211	Black Mountain Blues	Tracy Schwarz	01:21
212	Bonapart's Retreat (D tuning #1)	Tracy Schwarz	00:38
213	Bonapart's Retreat	Tracy Schwarz	00:44
214	D Tunings #2 and #3	Tracy Schwarz	00:52
215	Rocking the Bow	Tracy Schwarz	00:24
216	Jolly Blacksmiths in A	Tracy Schwarz	01:44
217	Trills	Tracy Schwarz	00:24
218	Soldier's Joy in D with an Old Time Start	Tracy Schwarz	00:45
219	Single String Runs	Tracy Schwarz	00:36
220	Bluegrass Fiddle in 3/4 Time	Tracy Schwarz	00:49
221	Bluegrass Fiddle Lead in 4/4 Time	Tracy Schwarz	00:48
222	Fiddle Tune Type Lead in 4/4 Time	Tracy Schwarz	00:46
223	Bluegrass Vibrato	Tracy Schwarz	00:35
224	Double Shuffle	Tracy Schwarz	01:35
225	Banjo-Fiddle Music	Tracy Schwarz	01:50
226	Guitar-Fiddle Music	Tracy Schwarz	00:53
227	Guitar-Banjo-Fiddle Music	Tracy Schwarz	01:17