Beginner-friendly fiddle tunes — the entry-point repertoire for new players. These forty-nine tunes are tagged as beginner-difficulty in our catalog: simpler chord progressions, slower typical tempos, fewer position shifts, the tunes that come up first at slow jams. Learn a handful before your next jam — they’ll come up.
Each tune’s page on Picker’s Guide has chord charts, recordings, and notes on arrangements.
- 1. Angeline the Baker
- 2. Big Mon
- 3. Big Sandy River
- 4. Big Sciota
- 5. Bill Cheatham
- 6. Billy in the Low Ground
- 7. Cherokee Shuffle
- 8. Forked Deer
- 9. Gold Rush
- 10. John Hardy
- 11. Red Haired Boy
- 12. Salt Creek
- 13. Soldier’s Joy
- 14. St. Anne’s Reel
- 15. Turkey in the Straw
- 16. Whiskey Before Breakfast
- 17. Arkansas Traveler
- 18. Bile Them Cabbage Down
- 19. Cripple Creek
- 20. Fireball Mail
- 21. Flop-Eared Mule
- 22. Girl I Left Behind Me
- 23. Home Sweet Home
- 24. June Apple
- 25. Leather Britches
- 26. Liberty
- 27. Monroe’s Hornpipe
- 28. Old Joe Clark
- 29. Red Wing
- 30. Reuben
- 31. Sail Away Ladies
- 32. Sally Goodin
- 33. Shove the Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire
- 34. Temperance Reel
- 35. Wildwood Flower
- 36. Eighth of January
- 37. Golden Slippers
- 38. Miss Mcleod’s Reel
- 39. Mississippi Sawyer
- 40. Sally Ann
- 41. Auld Lang Syne
- 42. Boston Boy
- 43. Cricket on the Hearth
- 44. Jenny Lynn
- 45. Nail that Catfish to a Tree
- 46. Shenandoah Breakdown
- 47. Arran Boat Song
- 48. Battle Hymn of the Republic
- 49. Buffalo Gals