Frosty The Snowman - Basic Fiddle Lesson
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Channel: FiddleHed · 2015 · Music
Here's a step-by-step lesson on Frosty The Snowman. First I'll play a mid-tempo version of the whole thing. Then we'll slowly learn it, note by note, building notes into phrases, building phrases into quarters, until we have each part.
Left hand fingerings (TABS):
Comments:
1st and 3rd quarters of A are identical, 2nd and 4th quarters are the same but end differently. Second half of B part same as second half of A.
A part
first quarter: D3-1-L2-3-AL2-A1-L2-3-L2-1-0-D3
second quarter: A1-L2-3-L2-1-0-D3-AL2-D1-D3-A0-D3-L2-1-0-3
third quarter: D3-1-L2-3-AL2-A1-L2-3-L2-1-0-D3
fourth quarter: A1-L2-3-L2-1-0-D3-AL2-D1-D3-A0-D3-L2-1-D0-G3
B part
first quarter: G3-A0-0-L2-L2-1-0-D3-1-L2-A0-D3-L2-1
second quarter: D1-0-0-3-3-A1-1-3-1-L2-3-L2-1-0-D3
third quarter: D3-1-L2-3-AL2-A1-L2-3-L2-1-0-D3
fourth quarter: A1-L2-3-L2-1-0-D3-AL2-D1-D3-A0-D3-L2-1-0-D0-G3
WARM UP WITH:
C major
D3-AL2-D1
DL2-A0-D3-L2-1
STUFF TO LEARN AND PRACTICE IN THIS TUNE:
Low 2 vs. high 2
Transposing! Once you get it the tune down, try starting on A3 (same fingerings).
Verse 1:
C F C
Frosty the Snow Man, was a jolly happy soul
F C
With a corn-cob pipe and a button nose
G
and two eyes made out of coal.
Verse 2:
C F C
Frosty the Snow Man, is a fairy tale they say
F C
He was made of snow but the children know
G C
how he came to life one day.
Bridge:
F Em Dm C
There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found,
G D G
For when they put it on his head he began to dance around.
Verse 3:
C F C
Oh, Frosty the Snow Man was alive as he could be,
F C
And the children say he could laugh and play
G C
just the same as you and me.
Just use the tabs to get going, don't rely on it or continue to read it once you've got the tune...
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Alrighty. Play every day, have fun 😀 and thanks for making music 🙏
Now, go fiddle with it...
Jason 🎻
