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The Fiddle, Position by Position

Every page here speaks fiddle as a first language: where the notes fall under each finger, which hand position they belong to, which pairs bow cleanly together, and which open string rings underneath.

Fiddle Chord Tones Positions Scales Tuner

Free, playable references for fiddle, viola, and cello — every note placed by finger, string, and hand position, with the bowable pairs marked and all four open strings read honestly against the key.

Choose Your Instrument

Three voices climbing in fifths: one set of finger frames serves the whole family, and each member gets a full reference drawn from its own open strings.

Fiddle / Violin

  • Tuned G–D–A–E in fifths
  • The family’s high voice — first position is home
  • Shares its open pitches with the mandolin

Viola

  • Tuned C–G–D–A, a fifth below the fiddle
  • Same finger frames, its own clef
  • The alto voice of the family

Cello

  • Tuned C–G–D–A, an octave below the viola
  • The identical map, with longer distances
  • The low voice, played upright

What Lives Here

Chord Tones

Every key and quality as a map: which tones lie where, which neighbouring pairs sit under one stroke, and what each finger takes.

Scales

All 24 types with every degree named by finger and position, the shifts marked, and the open strings read against the key.

Fingerboard Explorer

Light up any set of notes across an unmarked fingerboard and watch the hand frames appear.

Progressions

Each key’s chord family in playing order, with the open strings that agree ringing underneath.

Exercises

Daily intonation, position, and string-crossing drills, each one checkable by ear before the hand commits.

Positions, Computed

Where the hand sits and when it moves: four hand positions derived note by note from the tuning itself.

Bowing, Computed

Shuffle, slurs, and string crossing as computed patterns — every stroke direction falls out of one partition rule.

Tunes, Mapped

Four traditional tunes as position maps — the key, the range, and what the hand must do — never a transcription.

Fiddle or Violin?

One object, two registers. What genuinely differs — setup, bowing, repertoire — and what does not differ at all.

Gear, Explained

Setup beats price: the bridge, the soundpost, the rosin, and the decisions that actually change how it plays.

Chord of the Day

The network’s shared daily pick, answered the bowed way: which pairs are playable and which open strings belong.

Free Tools

Tuner, metronome, theme builder — in the browser, no sign-up, nothing to install.

How It Works

1

Pick Your Instrument

Fiddle, viola, or cello — every reference page is drawn from that instrument’s own open strings, never transposed off a chart made for something else.

2

Read It by Position

Every note arrives with a string, a finger, and a hand position attached, because that is the question a bowed player actually asks: where is my hand, and when does it move?

3

Check It by Ear

Reference audio is honest pizzicato — no synthetic bow exists here — and every drill pairs a placed note with an open string, so intonation is checked against the instrument itself.

The Bowed Family’s Home

Fiddle Warrior is the Warrior Network’s deep home for the bowed strings. On an unmarked fingerboard there is nothing to count, so the useful unit is not a distance but a position — where the hand sits, which four notes the fingers reach without moving, and where the shifts fall. Every page is built on that and on the bow: what one stroke can take, which neighbouring pairs agree, and which open string is free to ring underneath. Every derived number on the site is recomputed in CI from the registry’s true pitches rather than copied from a book.

Fiddle Questions, Answered

More on the full FAQ page.

What makes Fiddle Warrior different from a violin reference site?
Every page is written from the hand and the bow outward: notes are named by finger, string, and hand position rather than by distance, the neighbouring pairs one stroke can take are marked, and all four open strings are read against the current key — the questions a player on an unmarked fingerboard actually has.
Which instruments are covered?
The three bowed voices that climb in fifths — the fiddle on G–D–A–E, the viola a fifth below on C–G–D–A, and the cello on the same four letters an octave lower — each with its own chord-tone, scale, progression, and exercise pages drawn from its own tuning.
Why do the reference notes sound plucked?
Honesty. The audio engine is pizzicato and no synthetic bow ships anywhere on the network, so nothing here pretends otherwise: the maps tell you which neighbouring pairs sit under one stroke, and your own instrument supplies that voice.
Do I need to read music to use this site?
No. Everything is maps, finger numbers, and audio — each scale degree and chord tone is placed by string and position, and a tap plays it so the ear can confirm what the eye found.
Does any of this cost money?
No — every map, table, drill, and tool on Fiddle Warrior is free, with no ads, no account, and nothing to unlock.