I would like to add weight to what Greg Stephens said re English Fiddle tunes. The fiddle fake Book does have some but when i think of all the seminal tunes from England they could have put in there ..oh well! My partner found reading the dots a help and she recommends the Mel Bay book on Irish fiddle by Pete Cooper as well as a Book and CD by Matt Cranich who I think was professor of Irish fiddle at Cork University. The fiddle--est way to learn is by listening to players you admire. Buy the CD, get a slowdown application off the net and play along.