--- product_id: 2055140 title: "- The Fiddler's Fakebook - The Ultimate Sourcebook for the Traditional Fiddler | Violin Fiddle Songbook | 500 Jigs Reels Hornpipes | Folk and Americana Sheet Music for Fiddlers and Violinists" price: "¥14889" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/2055140-the-fiddlers-fakebook-the-ultimate-sourcebook-for-the-traditional-fiddler store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # 500 traditional fiddle tunes Lead melodies + chords + performance notes 304 pages of rich content - The Fiddler's Fakebook - The Ultimate Sourcebook for the Traditional Fiddler | Violin Fiddle Songbook | 500 Jigs Reels Hornpipes | Folk and Americana Sheet Music for Fiddlers and Violinists **Price:** ¥14889 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎻 Unlock the soul of traditional fiddling—500 tunes, endless jams, zero limits! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** - The Fiddler's Fakebook - The Ultimate Sourcebook for the Traditional Fiddler | Violin Fiddle Songbook | 500 Jigs Reels Hornpipes | Folk and Americana Sheet Music for Fiddlers and Violinists - **How much does it cost?** ¥14889 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/2055140-the-fiddlers-fakebook-the-ultimate-sourcebook-for-the-traditional-fiddler) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Designed for Every Skill Level:** From beginner to pro, clear notations and style tips make playing and personalizing tunes effortless. - • **Comprehensive Fiddling Resource:** Includes discography, alternate song titles, and regional style insights to deepen your musical expertise. - • **Master Nearly 500 Timeless Tunes:** Dive into an expansive collection of jigs, reels, hornpipes, and more—your ultimate jam session companion. - • **Perfectly Formatted for Performance:** 304 pages that lie flat on your music stand, ensuring seamless practice and live play. - • **A Must-Have for Traditional Music Lovers:** Join a community of passionate fiddlers who trust this definitive sourcebook for authentic folk and Americana sounds. ## Overview The Fiddler's Fakebook is a 304-page definitive sourcebook featuring nearly 500 traditional fiddle and violin tunes including jigs, reels, and hornpipes. It offers lead melodies, chord names, and performance notes tailored for all skill levels, enriched with style guides and a comprehensive discography. Perfectly formatted to lie flat for ease of use, this book is an essential resource for anyone passionate about folk, Americana, and traditional fiddling. ## Description A Comprehensive Guide for Traditional Fiddlers. * The Fiddler's Fakebook: The Ultimate Sourcebook for the Traditional Fiddler is the definitive reference book for both beginner and advanced fiddlers. This violin and fiddle songbook contains nearly 500 traditional tunes, including jigs, reels, rags, and hornpipes from a wide range of fiddling traditions. Whether you’re preparing for a square dance, jam session, or simply enjoying fiddle music with friends, this collection is an invaluable resource for any fiddler or violinist. * * Perfect for All Skill Levels. * Arranged with lead melodies, chord names, instructional text, and performance notes, this book is designed for players of various skill levels, from beginners to seasoned professionals. With clear notations and tips on bowing, ornamentation, and regional styles, musicians will find it easy to play their favorite traditional tunes and add their unique flair to each performance. * * Extensive Information and Resources. * The Fiddler's Fakebook doesn’t just provide sheet music. It offers an extensive discography of fiddle recordings and a wealth of information about the fiddling world. The book also features an index of songs and their alternate titles, ensuring that even the most obscure pieces are easy to find. Whether you’re looking for a specific version of a tune or need tips on regional fiddling styles, this book has it all. * * * * Songs Included: * Another Jig Will Do * Apple Blossom * Arkansas Traveler * Bill Cheatham * Bitter Creek * Bonnie Kate * Cotton-Eyed Joe * Cripple Creek * Fiddler's Dream * Fisher's Hornpipe * Flop-Eared Mule * Flowers of Edinburgh * The Girl That Broke My Heart * The Irish Washerwoman * Magpie * Old Joe Clark * Stoney Creek * Woodchopper's Reel * and more. Review: Fantastic compilation! - No fake book has all the traditional fiddle songs; I guess Miles Krassen's version of O'Neill's Music of Ireland comes closest with about a thousand. But this book has some advantages over that tome. There are about 500 songs, many otherwise hard to find. It has many of the old favorites. There are tunes lacking but no book is complete. These are songs of the Appalachians which means mostly British, Scots and Irish, not much you can identify as from German, Norwegian, Yiddish, Cajun nor other traditions. Also it lacks some of my all time favorites which are not usually thought of as fiddle tunes like the old English lute ballad "The Unfortunate Lad" commonly known as "The Streets of Larado", nor too many Lomax versions of anything. The more common songs have more than one version, some in different keys. Keys are, for the most part easy ones for the fiddle, which of course also means they're easy for the guitar, mandolin and piano. It is well printed, and despite the griping from some reviewers, it lies flat. If I live long enough for it to fall apart I'll take it to a copy shop and have them put a new binding on it. I have another copy with plastic comb binding was returned from a family member after the plastic began to deteriorate after many years. I really wish they'd consider going back to the old spiral wire bindings, but this one's book binding is a good second best. At the beginning there are several pages of style guides. I didn't look at these for a long time after I bought the book; I guess I've become resistant to such things over the years of self learning, but they would be helpful for anyone whose stylistic approach isn't entirely fossilized. And I finally did read them, finding that they are both reasonable and helpful. He says to choose fast slow or medium tempo but for the guitar I've found following Doug Young' advice in his book Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD: Playing and Arranging Reels, Jigs and Airs for Fingerstyle Guitar to be easier. Young recommends playing the guitar more slowly than you could on a fiddle. Beside each song is a listing of popular records containing it. A lot of the records you can refer to are guitar, hammered dulcimer, mandolin and other instruments, not just Fiddle. For instance, there are a lot of listing for Doc Watson's Vanguard recordings. Of course Doc could play fiddle, but he played mostly guitar. Readability is good and print quality is good. Fiddle tunes don't seem to have so many codas, alternate endings and the like as some other types of music. There is an index which also lists alternative names. This is a start, but it doesn't list all the alternative names. All told, this is a five star book, fun to just read when you're not playing, more fun to play. Edited to add that there are some mistakes in the songs but by the time I learned they were not right I knew how to correct them. Review: This is the book to have, if you ever want to play Bluegrass or Traditional Mountain/Celtic music! - This is THE book to have for anybody who likes to play traditional mountain/Celtic/Bluegrass music! This book was originally recommended to me decades ago, by a fiddler who hosted a huge, community jam session, every week. This book was the only one that they used to play from, as it had the most, commonly recognized versions of a majority of traditional tunes. Also, there were enough tunes in there to keep a large group playing for weeks without ever repeating a single one! The version I bought years ago (and made the mistake of lending to someone, so I never saw it again!) had a plastic ring binding. The newer edition that I bought recently to replace that missing volume has a book binding. But, it still lies flat enough that it doesn't fall off a music stand. I had previously bought the mandolin player's version of this book, which is written in tablature. But, I only ever use this one, because it has the actual notes and chords in it. It is an incredible resource that I refer to all the time. In fact, if I could only have one music book to play from, this is the one that I would want to have. It's a definite "must have" for every "Old Time" music lover! ## Features - Melody/Lyrics/Chords - Pages: 304 - Instrumentation: Fiddle - Instrumentation: Violin ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #63,449 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #18 in Folk & Traditional Songbooks #28 in Violin Songbooks #61 in Violins (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 509 Reviews | ## Images ![- The Fiddler's Fakebook - The Ultimate Sourcebook for the Traditional Fiddler | Violin Fiddle Songbook | 500 Jigs Reels Hornpipes | Folk and Americana Sheet Music for Fiddlers and Violinists - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gYRqk7bdL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic compilation! *by I***E on November 17, 2017* No fake book has all the traditional fiddle songs; I guess Miles Krassen's version of O'Neill's Music of Ireland comes closest with about a thousand. But this book has some advantages over that tome. There are about 500 songs, many otherwise hard to find. It has many of the old favorites. There are tunes lacking but no book is complete. These are songs of the Appalachians which means mostly British, Scots and Irish, not much you can identify as from German, Norwegian, Yiddish, Cajun nor other traditions. Also it lacks some of my all time favorites which are not usually thought of as fiddle tunes like the old English lute ballad "The Unfortunate Lad" commonly known as "The Streets of Larado", nor too many Lomax versions of anything. The more common songs have more than one version, some in different keys. Keys are, for the most part easy ones for the fiddle, which of course also means they're easy for the guitar, mandolin and piano. It is well printed, and despite the griping from some reviewers, it lies flat. If I live long enough for it to fall apart I'll take it to a copy shop and have them put a new binding on it. I have another copy with plastic comb binding was returned from a family member after the plastic began to deteriorate after many years. I really wish they'd consider going back to the old spiral wire bindings, but this one's book binding is a good second best. At the beginning there are several pages of style guides. I didn't look at these for a long time after I bought the book; I guess I've become resistant to such things over the years of self learning, but they would be helpful for anyone whose stylistic approach isn't entirely fossilized. And I finally did read them, finding that they are both reasonable and helpful. He says to choose fast slow or medium tempo but for the guitar I've found following Doug Young' advice in his book Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD: Playing and Arranging Reels, Jigs and Airs for Fingerstyle Guitar to be easier. Young recommends playing the guitar more slowly than you could on a fiddle. Beside each song is a listing of popular records containing it. A lot of the records you can refer to are guitar, hammered dulcimer, mandolin and other instruments, not just Fiddle. For instance, there are a lot of listing for Doc Watson's Vanguard recordings. Of course Doc could play fiddle, but he played mostly guitar. Readability is good and print quality is good. Fiddle tunes don't seem to have so many codas, alternate endings and the like as some other types of music. There is an index which also lists alternative names. This is a start, but it doesn't list all the alternative names. All told, this is a five star book, fun to just read when you're not playing, more fun to play. Edited to add that there are some mistakes in the songs but by the time I learned they were not right I knew how to correct them. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is the book to have, if you ever want to play Bluegrass or Traditional Mountain/Celtic music! *by L***O on October 2, 2013* This is THE book to have for anybody who likes to play traditional mountain/Celtic/Bluegrass music! This book was originally recommended to me decades ago, by a fiddler who hosted a huge, community jam session, every week. This book was the only one that they used to play from, as it had the most, commonly recognized versions of a majority of traditional tunes. Also, there were enough tunes in there to keep a large group playing for weeks without ever repeating a single one! The version I bought years ago (and made the mistake of lending to someone, so I never saw it again!) had a plastic ring binding. The newer edition that I bought recently to replace that missing volume has a book binding. But, it still lies flat enough that it doesn't fall off a music stand. I had previously bought the mandolin player's version of this book, which is written in tablature. But, I only ever use this one, because it has the actual notes and chords in it. It is an incredible resource that I refer to all the time. In fact, if I could only have one music book to play from, this is the one that I would want to have. It's a definite "must have" for every "Old Time" music lover! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beloved Resource *by G***. on November 16, 2024* I have used this book for years; indeed I used it to teach myself how to play the fiddle. The introductory material is helpful as well as an extensive discography, bibliography and list of alternative titles at the end. To be clear, this book is not about the rudiments of How to play the fiddle. The book assumes that one can read the treble clef. It includes cords for those accompanying the fiddler and the melody lines for about 500 selections. Some are easy to play and others are more advanced. My old spiral bound edition can be opened flat, but after about 20 years of use, the binding became worn. The only downside I can foresee to the non spiral bound version might be its durability. Although the non spiral bound version opens sufficiently, it might be worth looking into getting it spiral bound. If you are serious about playing fiddle, it is simple. You need this book! 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