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Welcome to BluegrassDaddy.com. My goal is to provide the best fiddle instruction resource on the internet, at a very affordable price. I have over 25 years of experience, both as a teacher and as a professional musician with the Cockman Family. This site is also a companion to my local fiddling outreach, which provides free instruction and performance opportunities to youth in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

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1) Fiddle tune title, genre, key, and skill level
2) A video of me demonstrating the fiddle tune.
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4) Measure-by-measure instructional videos
5) A slow play-through video using a metronome
6) Professional MP3 jam tracks with real instruments
7) Historical tune information and lyrics
8) An interactive forum to discuss the tune

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Whether you are learning for the first time, augmenting your lessons, or searching for the best lessons, sheet music, and jam tracks, at all levels, BluegrassDaddy.com is perfect for you. Plus we have a good clean forum full of fun, helpful fiddlers of all levels who are learning just like you. There you can post a text or video question for me, and I will reply with a detailed response. You can also post a performance / practice video for everyone to enjoy, offer suggestions and testimonials, or just discuss whatever comes to your mind!

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For a few dollars per week you will have full access to ALL fiddle lesson videos, sheet music (including both tablature and standard notation), and professional jam track MP3s. You will also have access to my extensive expertise on the web's friendliest forum. I am very active on this site, and I upload around one lesson per week.

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Teaching Videos

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Folk

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Canadian

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  • St. Anne’s Reel

Cajun

  • Cajun Fiddle
  • Callin’ Baton Rouge
  • Dans a Carre (Le Reel de Courville)
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  • Indian on a Stump
  • Port Arthur Blues

Western

  • Amarillo by Morning
  • Faded Love
  • Gardenia Waltz
  • Ghost Riders in the Sky
  • Jesse Polka / Jesusita en Chihuahua
  • Maiden’s Prayer
  • Ookpik Waltz
  • Ridin’ Down the Canyon
  • Right or Wrong
  • San Antonio Rose
  • Silver Bells (Western swing tune)

Holiday

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  • Away in a Manger
  • Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
  • Breakin’ Up Christmas
  • Christmas Time’s a Coming
  • First Noel
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Jingle Bells
  • Joy to the World
  • O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
  • O Holy Night
  • Over the River and Through the Woods
  • Silent Night
  • Silver Bells (Christmas song)
  • Simple Gifts
  • The Holly and the Ivy
  • We Gather Together
  • We Three Kings
  • What Child is This / Greensleeves
  • White Christmas
  • Winter Wonderland

Old Time

  • Amelia’s (Waltz)
  • Anna Lee
  • Arkansas Traveler
  • Ashokan Farewell
  • Black and White Rag
  • Black Mountain Rag
  • Boil Them Cabbage Down
  • Breakin’ Up Christmas
  • Candy Girl
  • Chinese Breakdown (Key of D)
  • Cotton Eyed Joe
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Edelweiss
  • Farewell Trion
  • Fire on the Mountain
  • Florida Blues
  • Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Golden Slippers
  • Groundhog
  • Gum Tree Canoe
  • Hello, Ma Baby
  • Home Sweet Home
  • Indian on a Stump
  • Jenny Lynn
  • Liberty
  • Listen to the Mockingbird
  • Liza Jane (Key of A)
  • Lovers’ Waltz
  • Margaret’s Waltz
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Orange Blossom Special
  • Over the Waves (Sobre las Olas)
  • Pretty Saro
  • Rock the Cradle, Joe (Key of D)
  • Sail Away, Ladies
  • Salt Creek / Salt River
  • Snowflake Reel / Snowflake Breakdown
  • Soldier’s Joy
  • Squirrel Hunters
  • Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
  • When You and I Were Young, Maggie
  • Whiskey Before Breakfast

Celtic

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  • Apples in Winter
  • Ash Grove
  • Auld Lang Syne
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  • Kesh (Jig)
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  • Margaret’s Waltz
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  • The Holly and the Ivy
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  • What Child is This / Greensleeves
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Gospel

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  • Daddy, My Daddy
  • Deep and Wide
  • Do Lord
  • Farther Along
  • First Noel
  • Go Rest High on that Mountain
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Golden Slippers
  • His Eye Is on the Sparrow
  • How Great Thou Art
  • I Can Only Imagine
  • I’ll Fly Away
  • In the Book of Life
  • Jesus I Pray
  • Jesus Loves Me
  • Joy to the World
  • Keep on the Sunny Side
  • Morning Has Broken
  • O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
  • O Holy Night
  • Old Rugged Cross (The)
  • Praise Him, Praise Him All You Little Children
  • Silent Night
  • Simple Gifts
  • The Holly and the Ivy
  • We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
  • We Gather Together
  • We Three Kings
  • What a Friend We Have in Jesus
  • What Child is This / Greensleeves
  • What Wondrous Love is This
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Country

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  • Ain’t She Sweet
  • Alabama Jubilee (Key of C)
  • Amarillo by Morning
  • Ballad of Sally Ann
  • Bringing Mary Home
  • Callin’ Baton Rouge
  • Christmas Time’s a Coming
  • Cotton Eyed Joe
  • Country Girl
  • Crystal Heart
  • Devil Went Down to Georgia
  • Don’t Be Angry
  • Faded Love
  • Friends in Low Places
  • Ghost Riders in the Sky
  • Go Rest High on that Mountain
  • Golden Fiddle Waltz
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  • Wagon Wheel – Ketch Secor Version
  • When You and I Were Young, Maggie
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • You Made It Right
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