Granger's Fiddle Tunes for Guitar

Adam Granger self-published the first edition of Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar in 1979. A second edition was published in 1994. Now Mel Bay Publications presents the third edition of the book.

This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented collection of fiddle tunes for the flatpicking guitar player in existence, and includes reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles.

There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book.

In this new edition, all tunes are typeset, instead of being handwritten as they were in the previous editions, making the tabs easier to read.

The tunes in Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are presented in Easytab, a streamlined tablature notation system designed by Adam specifically for fiddle tunes.

The book comes with a link which gives access to mp3 recordings by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other.

Also included in Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are instructions for reading Easytab, descriptions of tune types presented in the book, and primers on traditional flatpicking and rhythm guitar. Additionally, there are sections on timing, ornamentation, technique, and fingering, as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection.

Mel Bay also offers The Granger Collection, by Bill Nicholson, the same 508 tunes in standard music notation.

About these tunes

How to read EasyTab

How to use Grangers Fiddle Tunes for Guitar

Title

A Short Course in Flatpicking

Flatpicking a reel, breakdown, etc

Flatpicking a jig, slide or slip-jig

Rhythm Guitar Basics

Timing

Dissecting a measure of a reel, breakdown, etc.

Dissecting a measure of a jig, slide or slip-jig

Ornamentation and Technique

Hammer-ons and pull-offs

Sixteenth-note triplets

Hammer-on pull-offs

Individually-picked triplets

Slides

Double-stops

Trills

Pick direction and ornamentation

Idiomatic ornamentation

Fingering

Granger’s Five Rule of Finger

The 3-5-7 dilemma and fingering up the neck

Floating

Zone coverage

Position playing

Left-hand barring

General fingering issues

The whole ball of was

About Sources

The Story of Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar

List of Tunes