Huws Jones, Got Those Position Blues for Viola

Got Those Position Blues for Violin by Huws Jones offers a fun and effective way for violists to develop position-playing skills. Through engaging musical pieces, students learn to shift confidently, improve intonation, and become more comfortable playing beyond first position.

Key Features:

• Written by Huws Jones

• Develops shifting and position-playing skills

• Improves intonation and fingerboard confidence

• Helps students progress beyond first position

• Uses enjoyable musical repertoire

• Encourages smooth position changes

• Ideal for developing violists

• Excellent teaching and study resource

• Combines technique with musical enjoyment

• Supports confident violin playing across the fingerboard

Complete Country Fiddler is a practical and comprehensive introduction to traditional country fiddle playing. Published by Mel Bay Publications, this instructional book includes a CD and provides everything needed to begin exploring authentic country fiddle styles and techniques.

Key Features:

• Complete country fiddle instruction method

• Published by Mel Bay Publications

• Includes accompanying CD

• Teaches authentic country fiddle techniques

• Covers bowing patterns and double stops

• Encourages improvisation and creativity

• Suitable for violinists and fiddlers

• Ideal for self-study and lessons

• Introduces traditional country fiddle repertoire

• Excellent resource for developing country fiddle skills

Add some folk energy to early viola study with Fiddle Tunes for Beginning Viola by Stacy Phillips. Published by Mel Bay, this beginner-friendly collection uses enjoyable traditional fiddle music to develop rhythm, intonation, bowing, articulation, and confidence while introducing students to a musical style beyond the classical repertoire.

Key Features:

• Designed specifically for beginning violists

• Traditional fiddle repertoire

• Develops rhythm, intonation, and bow control

• An enjoyable alternative to conventional beginner studies

• Excellent for lessons and home practice

Bring the excitement of traditional fiddling into violin study with Fiddle Tunes for the Violinist, arranged by Betty M. Barlow. This 48-page collection features jigs, reels, and hornpipes arranged to progressively develop real fiddle technique, with piano accompaniment and a separate violin part included.

Key Features:

• Traditional jigs, reels, and hornpipes

• Arranged by Betty M. Barlow

• 48-page collection for developing violinists

• Piano accompaniment and separate violin part

• Develops rhythm, bowing, articulation, and fiddle style

Basic Fiddlers Philharmonic: Old-Time Fiddle Tunes by Andrew H. Dabczynski and Bob Phillips introduces beginning violists to 11 lively traditional fiddle tunes. Published by Alfred Music, each tune progresses from a simplified version to a more challenging arrangement, with backup parts and improvisation ideas that develop technique, rhythm, creativity, and ensemble confidence.

Key Features:

• 11 old-time American fiddle tunes

• Designed for beginning violists

• Basic and more advanced versions

• Includes backup parts and improvisation ideas

• Excellent for lessons, ensembles, and group playing

Bring a different kind of energy to the viola with Fiddling for Viola by Michael Hoffheimer. Published by Mel Bay, this 88-page intermediate collection is packed with traditional Irish and American fiddle tunes and uniquely presents the music in parallel alto-clef and transposing violin notation, making it equally useful for established violists and violin fiddlers discovering the viola.

Key Features:

• Traditional Irish and American fiddle tunes

• Arranged for viola by Michael Hoffheimer

• 88-page intermediate collection

• Parallel viola and transposing violin notation

• Develops rhythm, articulation, folk style, and confident playing