Advanced fiddle tunes — the harder material that takes serious practice. Hot fiddle showpieces, complex modal pieces, very fast breakdowns, contest tunes. Thirty-five tunes most working pickers know exist but only the more advanced players actually pull off.
Each tune’s page on Picker’s Guide has chord charts, recordings, and notes on arrangements.
- 1. Jerusalem Ridge
- 2. Ride the Wild Turkey
- 3. 16/16
- 4. Cazadero
- 5. Down in the Swamp
- 6. El Cumbanchero
- 7. Limehouse Blues
- 8. Little Rock Getaway
- 9. Manzanita
- 10. Minor Swing
- 11. Nashville Skyline Rag
- 12. Nothing To It
- 13. Studebaker
- 14. Sweet Georgia Brown
- 15. Swing 42
- 16. The High Road
- 17. Amanda’s Reel
- 18. Big Country
- 19. Buried in a Cape
- 20. Butter and Eggs
- 21. Cascadia
- 22. Cedar Hill
- 23. Chirps and Williams
- 24. Cody Road
- 25. Cowboys and Indians
- 26. Homer the Roamer
- 27. Land’s End
- 28. Missing Vassar
- 29. Molly Bloom
- 30. Pellinore’s Ride
- 31. The Coyote Trail
- 32. The Tobogganist
- 33. Tipper
- 34. Up 18 North
- 35. Woodland Star