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There are two ways to approach writing a cookbook – and this goes for cooking food and cooking up some great music. One way is to give you a bunch of recipes and tell you, “Here's how to make this dish, or here's how to play this tune.” Another way is to teach you how to cook. In other words, by providing you with techniques for mixing flavors, the knowledge of when, where, and how to apply heat, and ideas on how to add your own touches, you can make the dish – or the tune – your own. This book takes the second path. The goal of this book isn't to tell you how to play tunes or how to play like anyone else. It's to teach you ways to approach, arrange, and personalize any tune – to develop your own unique style. To that end, we'll take in a healthy serving of old-time music and also expand the clawhammer palate to taste a few other musical styles. 

The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming.

Though, as stated above, this book is less about learning tunes than acquiring skills to apply to general playing, the book includes not only old-time tunes, but also sections on children's tunes, international tunes, and holiday tunes:

  • Aloha 'Oe
  • Are You Sleeping?
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Been All Around This World
  • Boil Them Cabbage Down
  • Canon in D Major
  • Cold Rain and Snow
  • Coleman's March
  • Cripple Creek
  • Dark Hollow
  • Deck the Halls
  • Deep Elum Blues
  • Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel
  • Es el Amor Mariposa
  • Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
  • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  • Home, Sweet Home
  • Home with the Girls in the Morning
  • Hopak Kasatske
  • In The Pines
  • June Apple
  • Make Me a Pallet
  • Midnight on the Water
  • Ode to Joy
  • Off To California
  • Old MacDonald
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Redwing
  • Row, Row, Row Your Boat
  • Sail Away Ladies
  • Shady Grove
  • Soldier's Joy
  • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • William Tell Overture
  • Wreck of the Old 97