Can't read music? Try Fiddle Tab.

Fiddle Tab is a fun and easy way to learn traditional fiddle tunes with large, easy-to-read big notes with letters inside. Use the fiddle fingerboard tab charts or just read the big letter notes to learn tunes fast. Thirty of the most requested traditional tunes in a single collection. Bowing exercises, scales, numerous fingerboard arpeggio charts, and guitar chords also included.

Tablature or "tab" is a fun way to get a quick start on the violin. Fiddle tab is a straightforward shorthand system of showing what notes to play. Once you learn how to read tab, you will be amazed at how fast you can learn a few simple tunes and build your confidence.

Fiddle tab works in the first position where most traditional and Celtic fiddle tunes are played. If you do not intend to learn Paganini, then you should be fine with fiddle tab for a while. As you progress, you will eventually need to learn the "legit" way of reading music.