Fiddle Time

Fiddle Time Starters
A beginner book for the young violinist

• Lots of short easy tunes to get children playing straightaway
• Easy-to-read simplified notation
• Pieces using open strings progressing to the 0-1-23 finger pattern on each string
• Lively rhythms on sporty, jungle, and space themes to get the bowing arm moving
• Helpful fingering charts, puzzles, games, and colourful illustrations

Fiddle Time Joggers
A first book of very easy pieces

• Open string pieces and tunes using the fingers pattern 0-1-23-4
• Well-known tunes and original pieces from rock to calypso
• Simple slurs and dynamics
• Notice-boards introducing new notes and rhythms
• Easy duets
• CD with performances of all the pieces
  With drumkit and bass for added colour
• Piano accompaniments provided in Joggers Piano Book

Fiddle Time Runners
A second book of easy pieces for violin

• Pieces using finger patterns 0-12-3-4 and 0-1-2-34
• Traditional tunes and pieces by well-known composers
• Original pieces in a range of styles from rag to flamenco
• Duets, with parts of equal difficulty
• CD with performances of all the pieces
  With drumkit and bass for added colour
• Piano accompaniments provided in Runners Piano Book

Fiddle Time Sprinters
A third book of pieces for violin

• Pieces using the fingers pattern 01-2-34
  Plus low 2nd fingers and high 3rd fingers
• 2nd and 3rd position pieces
• A range of bowing techniques
• Original pieces and duets in a range of styles, plus well-known pieces
• Pieces using modes, the chromatic and blues scales, and dominant 7ths
• CD with performances and backing for all pieces
  With drumkit and bass for added colour
• Straightforward piano accompaniments provided in Fiddle Time Sprinters Piano Accompaniments

Fiddle Time Scales 1
Pieces, puzzles, scales, and arpeggios

• Two full pages for each scale and arpeggio
• Covers D, G, and A majors, one octave, and moving forward to B flat major and D, G, and A minors
• Each key has a fingering chart, a telephone 'helpline' to reinforce the arpeggio fingering, and a rhythm game
• A variety of fun pieces in each key plus puzzles and composition games
• An ideal companion volume to Fiddle Time Joggers and Runners

Fiddle Time Scales 2
Musicianship and technique through scales

• Major and minor scales and arpeggios, plus dominant 7ths, chromatics, pentatonics, blues scales, and modes
• Pieces and studies for each key in a range of styles from baroque to the blues
• Technical exercises for both right and left hand, including spiccato and 2nd and 3rd position
• Duets and solos, some with chord symbols for keyboard or guitar
• Creative ideas to encourage composition and improvising, plus question and answer activities
• An ideal companion volume to Fiddle Time Sprinters

Fiddle Time Christmas
A stockingful of 32 easy pieces

• Pieces using fingers patterns 0-1-23 and 0-12-3
• All the well-known favourites, plus some less familiar tunes
• Solos and duets
• Words to sing along, and chords for guitar or keyboard
• An ideal companion volume to Fiddle Time Joggers and Runners