Jim, these are great! They are on my music stand now. Do you know more about these tunes? I don't have a banjo, but I'm going to try to play the Catfish Jig on my concertina.
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Has anyone ever come across a fiddle tune called "Flight to D.C."? (Yeah, try searching for it. Nearly impossible.)
a Dm tune, I believe.
Found this one vid, but wondering if anyone has seen others, or has notation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9ApapmdGY
Deeper into Missouri fiddle tunes. Brenda's Reel (pdf for transcription from Charlie's site) originally played by phenomenal lefty fiddler Cyril Stinnett and equally phenomenal Charlie Walden.
I have been working on this one on ITM-tuned banjo and mandolin. It is a bit more difficult for me on fiddle especially in the second part where you have to play in second or third position. Fun and a great dance tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAHsvewfAG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaj83yyp9U
Charlie actually teaches the tune I posted above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8owHGkTQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slx_wI0i1Vo
A mention on a thread in the archive:
Ah I found it at 27:19 (I can't remember how to index that place on the video) on this video with John Purk who wrote it playing mandolin. Nice tune!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2hQmq4ewOc
Jim, you rock! Thanks!
After hearing it: It's got a bit of Lonesome Fiddle Blues about it, that's for sure.
Oh, here's a link that embeds the start time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2hQmq4ewOc&t=27m18s
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Rocky Pallet is a beautiful tune and I recommend it highly to anyone ready for a fingering challenge. The B part has taken some extra listening because it fluctuates into 3 different directions as it develops. Translating the lines from the usual fiddle to the unusual mandolin is a lot of fun because, really, how do you best translate an old time fiddles rolling pulse into single lines built on dry and woody notes? I'm not sure I'll ever be able to play it at dance speed.
Hey Jim, Here is me and some friends playing Rocky Pallet. Is this the same old-time tune version you were referring to?
After listening to both Grisman's and Skagg's versions, I had to learn Boston Boy. Super fun to play. Does anyone know what the deal is with the order of the A and B parts? I've heard it both ways.
Mike
Don't give up in despair. There is a free program out there called "Audacity" that will take about any format audio file and allow you to modify it in many ways including change tempo. Most songs can be taken down to about half tempo without loosing all sense of rhythm.
Look at:
http://www.audacityteam.org/
It works on windows, mac and linux.
Besides that it is a darn fine digital recording/editing studio.
Gary aka WikiGary
Slocum Hollow, a Butch Baldassari number, starts out on the last half of the B part, then hits the regular AA/BB stride.
Only playing the last half of a B part before starting the regular AABB pattern would be more of a kickoff, in my mind. That's different than reversing the entire tune and playing BBAA.
Been trying to learn Great Big Yam Potatoes. It's very simple but I really like it. Oddly I keep forgetting how the simplest part, the A part, goes. That's why I struggle to learn it.
The Birth of Kisses Jig.
Page 99 of The Caledonian Pocket Companion, Volume II
https://archive.org/details/caledonianpocket00stua
Bonaparte's Retreat.
Daphne. The B part is a killer.
My latest fiddle tune infatuation is Coal Harbor Bend, after it was posted as the tune of the week over at banjohangout a few weeks ago. I cannot get it out of my head! Traditionally, folks seem to play it with an Em chord (vi) in the B part. But the version by Bigfoot uses a C major (IV), which really gives it a different sound. This is the version I've embraced. And of course, like all the tunes I fall in love with, it is crooked.
I've been working on it on the fiddle. I've seen at least one mandolin version of it on YouTube (mandolessons, as I recall), but it's the fiddle slurs and unisons that really give it "the sound". Bigfoot uses two fiddles which interact beautifully.
This is, for me, a "trance tune". I could listen to it 24/7 and just zone out. The album version is below, but a live version from Clifftop 2010 can be heard here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiX_zKczmM0
Thanks for the heads up on that tune Mr. Tobin. I was having fun playing along with the Big Foot recording you posted and decided to make a quickie recording playing on my Goldrush just now and here it is. Great tune that grows on you the more you play it.
Playing around with Freeman's Hornpipe tonight.
Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes
Hi woodwizard, The mp3 link you sent gives me "gibberish." Thanks for trying -- I'd love to hear Freeman's Hornpipe. I searched YouTube and got Fisher's Hornpipe, many links for that one.
Recently worked out a Norman and Nancy Blake tune called Blind Dog, originally done on a fiddle and cello, now with two mando's.
Don't have a full version recorded yet, but here's a slower (and somewhat unpolished) version of what we do now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5efWhIhLnlQ
Very cool -
I recently got hooked on "Devil Chased Me Around the Stump" from the Rising Fawn String Ensemble album, a lot of fun to play.