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Easy Fiddle Favourites

Get Your Fiddle Dancing With These Tunes

EASY FIDDLE FAVOURITES

Easy Fiddle Favourites, as the name suggests, is a clear, simple series of Irish fiddle lessons for budding Irish fiddle players. It is designed for those who have mastered the basics of the instrument and are now ready to increase their repertoire. Those new to the Irish fiddle are advised to begin with the Fiddle Basics course.

By the end of this fantastic course, you will have 13 new tunes that sit very well on the fiddle, and are known far and wide – played in Irish sessions the world over!

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  • 18 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes
  • PDF sheet music & mp3’s to download & keep for each tune
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Your Tutor

Neil Fitzgibbon
Neil Fitzgibbon is a musician, composer and educator that has toured and shared stages with many musicians at home in Ireland and around the world. Based in Co Clare, he is a regular on the session scene on the west coast known as both a fiddle player and guitarist. He has recording credits alongside world renowned musicians and artists, both as a collaborator/session musician and creator. He also has extensive teaching experience from his work with the Music Generation youth project.Although Neil is new to OAIM as a tutor, many of you will recognise him as he played with us…
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Course Structure

Popular polkas, jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzs and slip jigs all feature in this exciting Irish fiddle course. Every tune has been selected by the tutor for its popularity in Irish music sessions worldwide. Each tune sits particularly well on the fiddle. Lessons not only demonstrate how to play the melodies but offer technical insights into the fiddle, style, and the Irish tradition itself.

Prepare to delve into rolls, double stops, slurs, bowed and slurred triplets, cuts and slides, all exciting ornamentation techniques that will help you bring some personality and dare we say allure to your fiddle playing!

Tunes covered:

  • Humours of Glendart – Jig
  • Planxty Irwin – Planxty
  • The Green Cottage – Polka
  • Patrick Street Polka – Polka
  • The Burnt Old Man – Jig
  • Castle Kelly’s – Reel
  • Bird in the Bush – Reel
  • Drops of Brandy – Slip Jig
  • Chief O’Neill’s Favourite – Hornpipe
  • Father O’Flynn’s Jig – Jig
  • O’Neill’s March – March
  • The Boyne Hunt – Reel
  • The Ashplant – Reel
Sample Sheet Music
Download Download The Humours of Glendart ABC Sheet Music. Download Download The Humours of Glendart Standard Notation Sheet Music.
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Easy Fiddle Favourites Lessons

1
Basic
Humours of Glendart

In this lesson Neil will teach a Jig in D major called ‘The Humors of Glendart’. He will demonstra…

Melody
D Major
Jig
2
Basic
Planxty Irwin

In this lesson Neil will teach the tune ‘Planxty Irwin’ by Turlough O’Carolan. This tune…

Melody
D Major
Planxty
3
Basic
The Green Cottage

In this lesson Neil teaches the Polka ‘The Green Cottage’ in the key of E minor. He will focus …

Melody
E Minor
Polka
4
Basic
Patrick Street Polka

In this lesson Neil continues on with another Polka ‘Patrick Street Polka’ in the key of A majo…

Melody
A Major
Polka
5
Basic
The Burnt Old Man

In this lesson Neil teaches the Jig ‘The Burnt Man in the key of D major. He will continue his study …

Melody
D Major
Jig
6
Basic
Castle Kelly’s

In this lesson Neil will teach the well known reel ‘Castle Kelly’s’. He will continue his…

Melody
A Minor
Reel
7
Basic
Bird in the Bush

In this lesson Neil teaches the reel ‘Bird in the Bush’ in the key of G major. He will focus on…

Melody
G Major
Reel
8
Basic
Drops of Brandy

In this lesson Neil will teach the Slip Jig ‘Drops of Brandy’ in the key of G major. He will co…

Melody
G Major
Slip Jig
9
Basic
Chief O’Neill’s Favourite

In this lesson Neil teaches the hornpipe ‘Chief O’Neill’s in the key of D major.

Melody
D Major
Hornpipe
10
Basic
Father O’Flynn’s Jig

In this lesson Neil teaches the jig ‘Father Flynn’s’ in the key of D major.

Melody
D Major
Jig
11
Basic
O’Neill’s March

In this lesson Neil teaches O’Neill’s March. He will continue his study of double strings and s…

Melody
A Minor
March
12
Basic
The Boyne Hunt

In this lesson Neil will teach the well known reel ‘The Boyne Hunt’ in the key of D major. He w…

Melody
D Major
Reel
13
Basic
The Ashplant

In this lesson Neil will teach the reel ‘The Ashplant’. He will be recapping on many of the tec…

Melody
E Minor
Reel
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