"Melodic Fingering Shapes in Double C and G-Modal Tunings: Frets 1 thru 10." This series of 2-string & 3-string fingering configurations, or shapes is your gateway to playing the full melodies of most key of C, D, G-modal, and A-modal fiddle tunes. You’ll learn the shapes and how to integrate them into drop-thumbing and double-thumbing patterns. Then you’ll learn how to create musical phrases by surrounding or interspersing the notes in these shapes with adjacent open or fretted long strings, the open 5^th string, or – once we get above fret 5 – the fretted 5^th string. Ultimately, you'll be able to play full fiddle tune melodies without venturing higher than fret 10 (for many tunes you won't need to range higher than fret 7, and for some no higher than fret 5!). You'll even be able to take some tunes an octave up without venturing any higher than fret 10.

Note: what folks call Double D tuning is simply Double C tuning raised up two frets in pitch; fretting-hand finger usage in both tunings is therefore fully identical.