Backup Tracks for Fiddle Practice

Disclaimer #1: Some of these are too fast, some are too slow, some are out of tune, and some are just not the way you would play them. :-)
Disclaimer #2: What's a metronome?

FYI: Many of the chords for these backup arrangements are similar to those found in the Fiddler's Fakebook or to those in the really cool backup book available from District 6 (highly recommended!). Some arrangements are old-time, some are Texas style, and some come from my own seriously demented imagination. Notes and midis for some of the melodies can also be found at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind. Just search for the name of a tune.


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  • Ace of Spades
  • Allentown Polka
  • Amazing Grace
  • Angeline the Baker | slow
  • Arkansas Traveler | slow
  • Ashokan Farewell
  • Barlow Knife
  • Beaumont Rag | slow
  • Bill Cheetam
  • Billy In the Lowground | slow
  • Big Sandy River
  • Black and White Rag (slow)
  • Blackberry Blossom | (slow)
  • Black Mountain Rag
  • Blue Valley Waltz
  • Boil Them Cabbage Down
  • Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
  • Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains
  • Bonaparte's Retrea
  • Bridget's Waltz
  • Cabri Waltz
  • Carnival Waltz (Bb)
  • Cattle In the Cane
  • Chancellor's Waltz
  • Cherokee Shuffle
  • Chestnut Waltz | video
  • Chinese Breakdown
  • Chinky Pin
  • Cluck Old Hen
  • Colored Aristocracy
  • Cooley's Reel
  • Cotton Patch Rag | video
  • Country Waltz
  • Cricket On the Hearth
  • Cripple Creek (G)
  • Cripple Creek (A)
  • Cuckoo's Nest
  • Dance All Night
  • Devil's Dream
  • Dill Pickle Rag
  • Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  • Drowsy Maggie
  • Ducks On the Millpond 1
  • Durang's Hornpipe 1
  • Durang's Hornpipe 2
  • Dusty Miller
  • Edelweiss
  • Eighth of January
  • Faded Love
  • Festival Waltz | video
  • Fiddler's Dream
  • Fifty Years Ago Waltz
  • Fire On the Mountain
  • Fisher's Hornpipe
  • Flop-Eared Mule
  • Flowers of Edinburgh (slow)
  • Flowers of Edinburgh (faster)
  • Flying Cloud Cotillion
  • Folding Down the Sheets
  • Forked Deer
  • Frosty Morning
  • Gardenia Waltz
  • George Booker
  • Georgianna Moon (D)
  • Girl I Left Behind Me | video
  • Going Places | video
  • Golden Eagle Hornpipe
  • Golden Slippers (G)
  • Goodnight Waltz
  • Grandfather Polka
  • Great Big Taters In Sandy Land
  • Greenfields of America
  • Grey Eagle | video
  • Growling Old Man and Woman
  • Hamilton County
  • Haste to the Wedding
  • Hawks and Eagles
  • Herman's Rag
  • Hog Eye
  • Hotfoot
  • I Don't Love Nobody | video
  • Irish Washerwoman
  • Jack of Diamonds
  • Jenny Lynn
  • Jerusalem Ridge
  • Jesse Polka
  • John Ryan's Polka
  • June Apple
  • Just As I Am (old hymn- D)
    ---play second fiddle
  • Kansas City Kitty
  • Katy Hill
  • Kelly's Waltz
  • Kentucky Waltz
  • Kesh Jig
  • Kid On the Mountain
  • Kitchen Girl
  • Leather Breeches
  • Liberty
  • Limerock
  • Little Liza Jane
  • Little Rabbit
  • Little Rock Getaway
  • Liza Jane 1
  • Lonesome Fiddle Blues
  • Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
  • Lost Indian
  • Lost John
  • Lover's Waltz
  • Madeline's Waltz
  • Maiden's Prayer
  • Margaret's Waltz
  • Martin's Waltz
  • Mason's Apron
  • Memories Waltz
  • Midnight On the Water
  • Midnight On the Water II
  • Mississippi Sawyer
  • Miss McLeod's Reel
  • Molly Put the Kettle On
  • Money Musk
  • Morningstar Waltz
  • Monroe's Hornpipe
  • Morpeth Rant
  • My Own House Waltz (G)
  • My Own House Waltz (A)
  • Off to California
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Old Molly Hare
  • Old Mother Flannigan
  • Old South Waltz
  • Ook Pik Waltz
  • Over the Waterfall
  • Over the Waterfall 2
  • Over the Waves
  • Petronella
  • Pig Ankle Rag
  • Pigeon On a Gate
  • Ragtime Annie
  • Red-Haired Boy | slow
  • Red WIng
  • Rights of Man
  • Road to Columbus
  • Road to Lisdoonvarna
  • Rock the Cradle Joe
  • Rose of Sharon | video
  • Roxanna Waltz
  • Sail Away Ladies 1A
  • Sail Away Ladies 1B
  • Sailor's Hornpipe
  • Saint Anne's Reel | video
  • Sally Ann (A)
  • Sally Gardens
  • Sally Goodin | video
  • Sally Johnson 1
  • Sally Johnson 2
  • Salt River
  • San Antonio Rose (D)
  • Sandy River Belle
  • Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle
  • Sheebeg and Sheemore
  • Ship In the Clouds
  • Sleeping Lulu
  • Soldier's Joy
  • Spotted Pony
  • Star of Munster
  • Star of the County Down
  • Staten Island Hornpipe
  • Stone's Rag
  • Stoney Creek
  • Swallow Tail Jig (slow)
  • Swinging On a Gate
  • Tammy's Waltz
  • Tawny's Waltz
  • Teardrop Waltz | video
  • Temperance Reel
  • Tennessee Waltz
  • Tom and Jerry
  • Turkey In the Straw | video
  • Twinkle Little Star
  • Waltz You Save For Me (F)
  • Waterbound
  • Wednesday Night Waltz
  • Westphalia Waltz
  • Whiskey Before Breakfast (slow)
  • Whistler's Waltz
  • Wild Fiddler's Rag
  • Wind that Shakes the Barley
  • Woodchopper's Reel
  • Yellow Rose Waltz