Fiddle Fingers please help, please

so, our fiddler learns anything and everything we want to play. He's only brought a few tunes to the group. We obviously learn them. He loves this tune and I've been fighting with it for a while now. Anyone care to save me and ABC or notate it out. Tab, whatever works for you. I only found one version online, and it doesn't sound right.

The Don Messer version is the one he likes best. Please and thanks in advance.





http://youtu.be/93UXjziwVTY

http://youtu.be/LWSXPVI0dV0

I'll try to post my horrible Tef version when I am back at my laptop. Even re-bought ASDowner and there's just something about this I can't "hear". I've done other songs OK by ear before, not a pro but never got this lost.

There are a couple of transcriptions online. Try:

http://calfolk.ca/tunes1/fiddle-fingers.pdf

http://www.violinworks.net/fiddlefingers.pdf

The second looks fairly definitive.

Martin

That looks way better than what I found and / or came up with. Thanks a lot. I googled the &#@*( out of that, how'd you find that second one?

You're welcome, Dan -- hope this one works for you!

I find that the quickest way to find sheet music for tunes is to search for the tune name together with the search term "filetype:pdf". That way, you only get PDF files, which catches most sheet music (and in particular the more sophisticated ones) and eliminates most of the irrelevant hits. These two were on the first page with that search.

Martin

Martin Jonas wrote:

"I find that the quickest way to find sheet music for tunes is to search for the tune name together with the search term "filetype:pdf". That way, you only get PDF files, which catches most sheet music (and in particular the more sophisticated ones) and eliminates most of the irrelevant hits."

That is absolutely brilliant, I tried it out today, lots of relevant hits for the tune I was looking for without having to wade through so much unrelated stuff. Wish I'd known about that years ago. Thank you for letting us know about this, it's a great search technique.

I often wondered how you find all these arrangements for your personal chamber orchestra, Martin.
It’s a shame I never tried the advanced settings. Thanks JL277z for bumping this thread.

Here is a mandolin video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOu4Cierm4