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Course 1: Starting From Scratch

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Section 1: Set Up For Success

Welcome to Course 1

Pick your genre of focus

Build a playlist

Schedule your listening

Set up a weekly class

Section 2: Set Up Your Instrument

All about getting a fiddle

All about the bow

Evaluating your instrument

Shoulder Rests

Strings

Rosin

Getting the bow ready

Stickers or tapes

Tuning the fiddle

Section 3: Technique Essentials

Right hand bow grip

Left shoulder fiddle placement

Left arm position

Opening and closing the elbow

Right arm height

Right arm bow pressure

Section 4: Learn A Major

Using the sheet music

A Major scale

Section 5: Boil Them Cabbage Down

Tips and tricks for the first tune

Boil Them Cabbage Down

Boil Them Cabbage Down practice along

Piano Accompaniment for Boil Them Cabbage Down

Section 6: Jenny's Gone to Linton

Using the pinky

Jenny's Gone to Linton A part

Jenny's Gone to Linton B part

Jenny's Gone to Linton practice along

Piano Accompaniment for Jenny's Gone to Linton

Section 7: Steamboat Quickstep (Uncle Jim)

Jig Rhythms

Steamboat Quickstep A part

Steamboat Quickstep B part

Steamboat Quickstep practice along

Piano Accompaniment for Steamboat Quickstep1

Section 8: Britches Full of Stitches

Adding the D string

Britches Full of Stitches A part

Britches Full of Stitches B part

Britches Full of Stitches practice along

Piano Accompaniment for Britches Full of Stitches

Section 9: Speed the Plow

Using less bow for reels

Speed the Plow A part

Speed the Plow B part

Speed the Plow practice along

Piano Accompaniment for Speed the Plow

Section 10: Jessica's Polka

Cleaning your strings

Jessica's Polka A part

Jessica's Polka B part

Jessica's Polka practice along

Piano Accompaniment for Jessica's Polka

Wrap Up

All tune review

Sheet music without fingerings

Wrap up