Slippery Hill - source recordings for thousands of tunes
John Lamancusa's Old Time Fiddle Tunes (home of the Gettysburg Collection and a collection of Tohono O'odham Tunes). Music notation and some recordings.
Oldtime Central - includes instrument-specific pages of learning resources for fiddle, banjo and guitar. Website is defunct, but contents are available at archive.org.
Mossy Roof - banjo tabs, sound files, etc from the Seattle old time stringband class taught by Greg & Jere Canote & Candy Goldman
See also the generic Tune Resources page for additional links such as oldtimeSF, Traditional Tune Archive, and Portland and Waltz Book indexes.
Lots of folks have put together lists of commonly played tunes - some day I will add some pointers to them here. Meanwhile, here is mine:
David's Must-Know Fiddle Tunes (handout from Walker Creek Music Camp workshop)
Fiddle Hell Common Tunes (includes other genres besides old time)
Quarantine Happy Hour Video Archive - a pandemic project which streamed a concert on Facebook nearly every night between April 2020 and July 2021.
Berkeley Old Time Music Convention YouTube playlists - organized by year.
Folkstreams.net - documentary films. In particular, Dance All Night - The Highwoods Stringband Story (Larry Edelman), films by John Cohen, Alan Lomax, and others.
The Canote Twins - documentary by Larry Edelman.
Get up in the Cool - Cameron DeWhitt
Across the Blue Ridge - Paul Brown. 158 episodes, until Dec 2018
County Sales Radio Hour. Kinney Rorrer. 25 episodes, Sept 2018 through Aug 2021
Cracking the Vault - recordings from Centrum Fiddle Tunes
The BOTMC Slow Jam Fizz YouTube playlist contains recordings of the pandemic-era Slow Jam Fizz slow sessions which ran from Feb 2021 through May 2023.
Adam Hurt & Beth Williams do occasional Facebook Live play-along jams on Adam's Facebook profile, staying in one key for the session. Recordings on Facebook. Select the videos that are 1.5-2 hrs long.
Fiddle Hell recordings of pandemic-era play-along jams on YouTube. Oldtime leaders included Bruce Molsky, Judy Hyman (twice), and Cathy Mason & Steve Arkin.
Brad Kolodner & friends - Baltimore old-time slow jam. Pandemic-era on YouTube. Look in the comments for tune titles and time positions.
YouTube slow down function - any YouTube video can be slowed down. Click the gear icon and choose Playback speed. The menu offers some presets (.25, .50, .75), choose custom to select any speed you want.
https://www.oldtimejam.com/ - Free backup tracks & tabs for favorite old-time tunes
Slower than Dirt online jams ran from Aug 2020 to Dec 2021
Many musicians offer online one-on-one or group instruction, either directly or through a organization/venue. Start by checking the artist's website. Here are a few options:
Tricia Spencer offers weekly Zoom practice sessions. Sat 11am CT. Free, donation requested.
Suzy Thompson Fiddles at Four - 4 week group sessions on Zoom; 2 sessions per week - Monday - a new tune is taught; Wed - deeper into the tune.
Adam Hurt teaches banjo & fiddle online one-on-one on Skype (and occasionally larger groups)
Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones teach fiddle, mandolin, and guitar via Zoom. All classes are recorded for later viewing.
Fiddle Hell Online - early April. Recordings are available for 4 months afterwards. Uses the Whova meeting app framework for access to Zoom, recordings and handouts. Some mandolin, banjo, guitar etc, but primarily fiddle. ~$150 for a 4 day weekend - a bargain for the amount of material you get, especially if you play fiddle, are interested in multiple styles, and can find the time to watch the videos in the 4 months afterwards.
The Freight & Salvage (Berkeley CA) offers both online and in-person classes in 6 week sessions. e.g. Evie Ladin clawhammer banjo; Erik Hoffman fiddle.
Caffe Lena (Saratoga Springs NY) offers both online and in-person classes in 4 week sessions. e.g. Bruce Molsky fidde; Allison DeGroot banjo; Frank Evans banjo.
Homemade Music School offers online classes in guitar, fiddle, banjo, and singing. Coming up in Jan & Feb 2024: Sammy Lind, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Rachel Eddy, Karen Ceilia Heil.
Cowan Creek Mountain Music School (Kentucky) offers an annual winter series of online classes in fiddle, banjo, guitar & song Jan 6-Feb 28 2025.
Tricia Spencer has posted some technique videos, based on her Fiddle Garden book and her weekly Zoom practice sessions (see above).
Rayna Gellert has posted a number of videos of old-time tunes played fast and slow.
David Bragger (Old-Time Tiki Parlour) has posted a number of free fiddle and banjo lessons.
Oldtime Central has a collection of pre-recorded lessons for fiddle, guitar & banjo. Website is defunct, but contents are available at archive.org.
Peghead Nation - pre-recorded lessons. subscription service ($20/month). Many styles. There are some preview videos and occasional live workshops. Evie Ladin, Bruce Molsky, Brittany Haas, many others.
ArtistWorks is a subscription service similar to Peghead Nation, mostly bluegrass and other genres. Brittany Haas, Allison de Groot. Some public libraries have access to ArtistWorks as a Libby extra. Some sample content is available on YouTube e.g. for Brittany Haas, Darol Anger.
FiddleVideo offers lessons in many styles (Irish, Canadian, Quebecois, bluegrass, contest) but not much in the way of old-time. Megan Lynch Chowning,
Lukas Pool of the Ozark Banjo Company offers clawhammer banjo lessons - some are available for free, but most require a subscription ($20/month; $200/year). Also browse his YouTube channel for more videos.
Charlie Walden on YouTube and Patreon.