Fiddling Demystified for Strings
Catalog of Fiddling Resources
Store inquiries please email: info at fiddlingdemystified dot com
Tune archive
4-07 Swallowtail Jig
5/07 Isidore's Reel
7/07 Kangaroo Jig
CONTACT: info@fiddlingdemystified.com

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Donna Hébert: Franco-American, Northern, Contradance fiddler
Fiddling Demystified for String Players: with Donna Hébert, cellist Renata Bratt, Groovemama
The Beaudoin Project: with Donna Hébert, George Wilson and Beaudoin family members
Chanterelle: Franco-American Heritage Group with Donna Hébert, Josée Vachon, Liza Constable
Groovemama: with Donna Hébert, Jane Rothfield, George Wilson, Stuart Kenney, Max Cohen - Great Groove Band workshops at Old Songs & Philly Folk Fests

String wizard Darol Anger in his foreword to A Practical Guide for String Players:

"Donna gets it all right. I suspect that the general level of fiddle knowledge and playing will take a major uptick soon after [Fiddling Demystified] is published, just as other great music books such as Earl Scruggs’ original banjo book, O’Neill‘s great Irish fiddling reference and the infamous jazz Real Book influenced the course of musicians’ lives and work."

Fiddling Demystified A Practical Guide for String Players

Table of Contents & Lesson List Sample lesson: Swallowtail Jig

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70 pages, 31 Celtic and North American tunes with chords, bowings, style lessons, 20-page left-right hand guide to fiddle techniques, two 65-minute lesson CDs

Please download and fill out our PDF order form and mail with your check or money order in U.S. funds to: Fiddling Demystified, PO Box 2632, Amherst MA 01004. Please add $5 shipping for up to three items. U.S. orders over $50 ship FREE!

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Fiddling Demystified

Donna Hébert - Fiddling Demystified: A Practical Guide for String Players, Violin ed. 70 pages, 20-page left-right hand styles, theory and bowing manual, 31 fully-styled tunes with chords, bowings, lessons. Tunes from Celtic and American sources. Two 65-minute lesson CDs. (ASTA Level 4, teacher training curriculum). Foreword by Darol Anger. Table of Contents & Lesson List. Sample lesson: Swallowtail Jig.

$55 order   vln only (free shipping!). Viola and cello editions available Feb. 2008.

Fiddlejam CD - Companion CD with all 31 tunes from Vol I of Fiddling Demystified: A Practical Guide for String Players. Donna Hébert and friends play tunes informally arranged in medleys at dance tempos with fiddle, guitar, banjo, bass, cello, mandolin and more, with several sets from Chanterelle and 2004 Groove Camp faculty concerts. 18 tracks, 1:09. Available 12/1/07

$18 order  (free shipping if ordered with     Fiddling Demystified book/CD)

Donna Hébert: Fiddling with a French Accent DVD - 7 popular French-Canadian reels, crooked tunes and waltzes plus playing hints and styling tips.

Reel de Rémi, Fireside Reel, Les guenilles, Isidore's Reel, Growling Old Man and Grumbling Old Woman, Glise à Sherbrooke, Un canadien errant.

With sheet music for violin, viola, cello. 18 tracks with bowing insets. Available 12/15/07.

$35 order

Donna Hébert - Mrs. McLeod's Reel - 6 authentic settings for one extraordinary tune, lesson CD with Donna Hébert, fiddle, Max Cohen, guitar. Violin, viola & cello in one book. 6 variations on one tune: authentic Scots, Irish, French-Canadian, New England Contradance & Appalachian Old-Time settings and an original blues setting from Donna Hébert. (ASTA level 3-4 curriculum, teacher training). Includes vocal method for singing and learning bowings by ear. Mp3: Acadian setting $25 order

Donna Hébert - Great Groove Band Vol 1  book/CD w/ Groovemama - 9 tunes from Celtic and American sources with easy and fully styled settings, chord charts. Scored for violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet Teaching CD. Specify instrument when ordering. This is the curriculum Groovemama uses to coach The Great Groove Bands at Old Songs and Philadelphia Folk Festivals. (ASTA Level 2-4 curriculum) $25 order

Donna Hébert - The Grumbling Old Woman - CD w/Liza Constable, guitar. 60+ contradance tunes for violin, 27 played slow and then faster on CD, with bowings, chords, tune sources, contradance instructions, Gilbert & Sullivan (Patience & Trial By Jury) arranged for square dancing with instructions. (ASTA Level 4, teacher training curriculum) $25 order vln only

Donna Hébert
Donna Hébert - Novice Fiddler Practice CD Scales & triads in D/Bm, G/Em, C/Am, F/Dm, A/F#m, easy starter tunes. (ASTA Level 1-2 curriculum). Coming March 2008
Alan Jabbour DVD

Alan Jabbour: Appalachian Fiddling DVD -10 tunes in standard and cross-tunings with right-reading bowing picture in picture, 30-minute interview, sheet music transcriptions for violin. $35 order

Video clip - 41 seconds, 2.4MB

Contact Alan Jabbour for workshops in the Appalachian Old-Time fiddle music of Henry Reed.

Fiddling and Franco-American music CDS
Big Boned Beauty

Donna Hébert - Big Boned Beauty songs and fiddle tunes.

Paddy Kelly's Jig

Blessing © D. Hébert - $18 order

Soiree chez nous

Chanterelle - Soirée Chez Nous Franco-American fiddle tunes & songs - $18 order

Isidore's Reel - from Louis Beaudoin

Nana Danced © D. Hébert

In the Moment
Jane Rothfield - In the Moment Tasty Old-Time fiddling and banjo playing from Groovemama, Atlantic Bridge and Jane's Gang member. $18 order
Northern Melodies
George Wilson - Northern Melodies Master of French-Canadian, Cape Breton, Contradance fiddling - $18 order
Royal Circus
George Wilson - Royal Circus Northern fiddle gems from a master fiddler- $18 order
Renata Bratt: Great Big Taters
Renata Bratt - Great Big Taters - Old-Time cello extravaganza with Natalie Haas and Rushad Eggleston! - $18 order

CONTACT US: info@fiddlingdemystified.com

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