Intermediate-difficulty fiddle tunes — the middle tier where most working repertoire lives. These sixty cover faster tempos, more position work, the cross-tunings, and the canonical “real” fiddle tunes bluegrass and old-time jammers expect everyone to know.
Each tune’s page on Picker’s Guide has chord charts, recordings, and notes on arrangements.
- 1. Blackberry Blossom
- 2. Clinch Mountain Backstep
- 3. New Camptown Races
- 4. Salt Spring
- 5. Beaumont Rag
- 6. Black Mountain Rag
- 7. Cattle in the Cane
- 8. Cuckoo’s Nest
- 9. Daley’s Reel
- 10. Daybreak in Dixie
- 11. Dear Old Dixie
- 12. Denver Belle
- 13. Dixie Hoedown
- 14. Farewell Blues
- 15. Fisher’s Hornpipe
- 16. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- 17. Foggy Mountain Special
- 18. Goodbye Liza Jane
- 19. Little Liza Jane
- 20. Lonesome Fiddle Blues
- 21. Old Dangerfield
- 22. Over the Waterfall
- 23. Paddy on the Turnpike
- 24. Ragtime Annie
- 25. Road to Columbus
- 26. Roanoke
- 27. Squirrel Hunters
- 28. Wheel Hoss
- 29. Ashland Breakdown
- 30. Ashokan Farewell
- 31. Banjo Signal
- 32. Big Country
- 33. Brown County Breakdown
- 34. Cheyenne
- 35. Chinquapin Hunting
- 36. Chinquapin Hunting
- 37. Cluck Old Hen
- 38. Cold Frosty Morn
- 39. Crazy Creek
- 40. Cumberland Gap
- 41. Devil’s Dream
- 42. Dixie Breakdown
- 43. Dorrigo
- 44. Down Yonder
- 45. Dry and Dusty
- 46. Dusty Miller
- 47. EMD
- 48. Earl’s Breakdown
- 49. East Tennessee Blues
- 50. Elzic’s Farewell
- 51. Fire on the Mountain
- 52. Flint Hill Special
- 53. Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom
- 54. Greasy Coat
- 55. Grey Owl
- 56. Ground Speed
- 57. Hangman’s Reel
- 58. Hawk is a Mule
- 59. Hunting the Buffalo
- 60. Katy Hill
