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    Adam Granger self-published the first edition of Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar in 1979. A second edition was published in 1994. Now, in 2022, Mel Bay Publications presents the third edition of the book.

    This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented collection of fiddle tunes for the flatpicking guitar player in existence, and includes reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles.

    There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book.

    In this new edition, all tunes are typeset, instead of being handwritten as they were in the previous editions, making the tabs easier to read.

    The tunes in Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are presented in Easytab, a streamlined tablature notation system designed by Adam specifically for fiddle tunes.

    The book comes with a link which gives access to Mp3 recordings by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other.

    Also included in Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are instructions for reading Easytab, descriptions of tune types presented in the book, and primers on traditional flatpicking and rhythm guitar. Additionally, there are sections on timing, ornamentation, technique, and fingering, as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection.
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  • About these tunes
  • How to read EasyTab
  • How to use Grangers Fiddle Tunes for Guitar
  • Title
  • A Short Course in Flatpicking
  • Flatpicking a reel, breakdown, etc
  • Flatpicking a jig, slide or slip-jig
  • Rhythm Guitar Basics
  • Timing
  • Dissecting a measure of a reel, breakdown, etc.
  • Dissecting a measure of a jig, slide or slip-jig
  • Ornamentation and Technique
  • Hammer-ons and pull-offs
  • Sixteenth-note triplets
  • Hammer-on pull-offs
  • Individually-picked triplets
  • Slides
  • Double-stops
  • Trills
  • Pick direction and ornamentation
  • Idiomatic ornamentation
  • Fingering
  • Granger’s Five Rule of Finger
  • The 3-5-7 dilemma and fingering up the neck
  • Floating
  • Zone coverage
  • Position playing
  • Left-hand barring
  • General fingering issues
  • The whole ball of was
  • About Sources
  • The Story of Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar
List of Tunes
  •    As I Went out upon the Ice    
  •   Bachelor Jig        
  •   Ball and Chain Hornpipe    
  •   Bally Desmond     &nb(more...)

Granger's Fiddle Tunes for Guitar 3rd edition

by Adam Granger

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Adam Granger self-published the first edition of Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar in 1979. A second edition was published in 1994. Now, in 2022, Mel Bay Publications presents the third edition of the book.

This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented collection of fiddle tunes for the flatpicking guitar player in existence, and includes reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles.

There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book.

In this new edition, all tunes are typeset, instead of being handwritten as they were in the previous editions, making the tabs easier to read.

The tunes in Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are presented in Easytab, a streamlined tablature notation system designed by Adam specifically for fiddle tunes.

The book comes with a link which gives access to Mp3 recordings by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other.

Also included in Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are instructions for reading Easytab, descriptions of tune types presented in the book, and primers on traditional flatpicking and rhythm guitar. Additionally, there are sections on timing, ornamentation, technique, and fingering, as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection.
More Details

More Details

  • About these tunes
  • How to read EasyTab
  • How to use Grangers Fiddle Tunes for Guitar
  • Title
  • A Short Course in Flatpicking
  • Flatpicking a reel, breakdown, etc
  • Flatpicking a jig, slide or slip-jig
  • Rhythm Guitar Basics
  • Timing
  • Dissecting a measure of a reel, breakdown, etc.
  • Dissecting a measure of a jig, slide or slip-jig
  • Ornamentation and Technique
  • Hammer-ons and pull-offs
  • Sixteenth-note triplets
  • Hammer-on pull-offs
  • Individually-picked triplets
  • Slides
  • Double-stops
  • Trills
  • Pick direction and ornamentation
  • Idiomatic ornamentation
  • Fingering
  • Granger’s Five Rule of Finger
  • The 3-5-7 dilemma and fingering up the neck
  • Floating
  • Zone coverage
  • Position playing
  • Left-hand barring
  • General fingering issues
  • The whole ball of was
  • About Sources
  • The Story of Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar
List of Tunes
  •    As I Went out upon the Ice    
  •   Bachelor Jig        
  •   Ball and Chain Hornpipe    
  •   Bally Desmond     &nb(more...)