Philip John Berthoud

Irish Music For Fiddle Made Easy

Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. The haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to be discovered in this selection of great traditional music. Irish Music For Fiddle Made Easy contains 29 traditional tunes from Ireland, arranged for easy Fiddle. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation with bow directions and accompanying audio tracks are included featuring all of the tunes, played at a manageable speed, with Guitar accompaniment. This exciting collection contains airs, well-known traditional songs, polkas, slip jigs, slides, double jigs, hornpipes and reels, all of which are specially arranged by the author with the beginning/intermediate Fiddle player in mind. On the audio tracks, the tunes are played 2 or 3 times, so you can really get into the feel of the tune when playing along. The speed of the tunes is quite slow, but not so slow as to take away from the essential feel of the music.