Somewhere I have a copy of How to Play Fiddle by The Armagh Pipers Club. It contains simple tunes advancing through the book to hardest at the last; and hard these are. It says nothing about Bowing assuming the student already has a teacher, I hasty add one could never get them without one.

I found liberal doses of Metronome while practicing as well as a teacher yeilds a good return on time invested, IOW one could soldier on for years without these and master about one months guided progress!

Hornpipes most ignored yield the greatest rewards since they are meant to be played slowly - try telling this to a bar full of semi intoxicated sessioneers and feel real pain! - but they often end up - in Piping meets - at double time!

Slow reelish type tunes such as Castle Kelly should be on the early tunes lists but isn't can be gotten of any good Tune website. 90 BPM a nice hike! Others I like are Munster Cloak - Raggle Taggle Gypsies - song and some Kerry Slides.

Look our for CCE, on the internet, which provides instruction by a QUALIFIED instrutor exclusively in Irish Traditional Dance Music. That said I always found these folks very nice if a bit nerdish.