Here are the techniques you'll find in Old-Time Fiddling and Old-Time tunes:

• Accents: a heavy accent on the 2nd and 4th beat

• Georgia shuffle: use the exercise below to practice and use 4 for E

• Drones: playing an open string as a double stop, if the note fits in the key or chord

• Slides: sliding into the note, particularly the 1st finger

• Anticipations: moving a note to start one to half a beat early

• Hammer-ons: Adding an eighth note from below, slurring up into the note

• Fills or improv: adding eighth notes to fill in the melody