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    I just started Swimming in the Gutter. Part A is in D minor, part B is in F.

    (You gotta love fiddle tune names.)

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    What a fun thread, Mike! I''m working on Cruise of the Calibar. A friend who plays banjo learned it out of a tab book. I couldn't find anything on the internet with this But I did find it somehow under the title Good Ship Calibar. It was done by Tommy Makem, and his lyrics and song are here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsobJKIymt4

    http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/t...s-1130935.html

    I have to wonder if maybe the banjo tab book changed the title to avoid copyright restrictions. FYI as you all probably know, Happy Birthday was under copyright until fairly recently. I had a beginning piano book for my piano students years ago, with that song called "Surprise!" and a picture of a birthday cake!!! It was still under copyright, but the author avoided getting caught, I'm sure.

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    Here's a couple I've been working on a little ... played on my A4 again



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    Was at a mando-only jam last night, and i came away realizing how many "popular" tunes I've failed to actually take the time to learn!

    Turkey in the Straw (never did because it just seems so cliche, but it got called, dangit!)
    Girl I Left Behind

    The above couple are pretty easy to figure out the melody on, so I was OK by the time it was my turn to have a go.

    But on Alabama Jubilee, which I've been meaning to learn forever, everyone played it a little different. With no solid reference, and only a couple of people before me, I just had to play some double-stops over the chords, and I handed in C-minus work.

    And Soldier's Joy came up, which was probably one of the first ones I ever learned on mandolin. Probably hadn't played it in three years. At the jam, I couldn't summon it to save my life. Again, everyone seems to have their own version. But got home, and listened to the version I learned, and it came back, just like that.

    I've got Sarah Jarosz's version of Shove that Pig's Foot a Little Further in the Fire down pretty good. So I guess I have no excuse to not get Alabama Jubilee going.

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    Quote Originally Posted by terzinator;1410132...
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    Turkey in the Straw [/B](never did because it just seems so cliche, but it got called, dangit!)....
    Three absolutely essential tunes are Turkey in the Straw, Chicken Reel, and Arkansas Traveler. Cliche? yes, but they are well known and often played for a reason. They are great tunes!
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    Here is a Bill Monroe tune I'm working on " Methodist Preacher" played on my A4

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    Johnny Don't get Drunk and Staten Island Hornpipe (played this one with a couple of old-time fiddlers)


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    Gold Rush. Monroe style. Rhythm is everything on this one.

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    Crazy Creek - another great Tommy Jackson tune

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    Young America Hornpipe
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    I am just loving the tune Ora-Lee

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw-Wxt4FVyM
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffD View Post
    I am just loving the tune Ora-Lee

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw-Wxt4FVyM
    Now I've been infected with an Ora-Lee ear-worm. I fear the only cure is to learn to play it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Roberts View Post
    Now I've been infected with an Ora-Lee ear-worm. The only cure I fear is to learn to play it.
    I know. It is a darn infection. I was introduced by a fellow that joined our local jam a few weeks back, from north eastern Kentucky. He plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, what ever you put in front of him. Ora-Lee is one of the tunes he brought into the jam and I am addicted.

    Its fun to hear, fun to hum, but the most amazing fun is to play it.
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    For me a new tune is like falling in love. For a few weeks the tune just owns me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffD View Post
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    but the most amazing fun is to play it.
    I found a pdf, probably from the Phillips book, and started fiddling around with that, but I ended up downloading the version you posted and I'm learning it by ear using the Amazing Slower Downer. The Bob Carlin version is a little different from the Phillips version, but he is using drones that don't show up in the notation, which sound so good on both fiddle and mandolin.
    Thanks for introducing this tune to us!
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    Is it in the Phillips collection? I'll check. But this version is the one I learned.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffD View Post
    Is it in the Phillips collection? I'll check. But this version is the one I learned.
    It should be in Volume 2. If you want a printed version, here is a slightly modified transcription of the Bob Carlin version. I left out the drones and maybe changed a few notes here and there to my liking.

    https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D060307_62_7752913479

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    Now I'm hooked on Ora Lee. lol. That's happened four or five times on this thread over the years. Someone hears a tune no one else has heard of, and within a few weeks, everyone is learning to play it. Oklahoma Redbird was one.

    I'm also learning Bouchard's hornpipe. Mostly playing it as a reel for contra dancing, but once my fingers tricked me into playing it as a jig.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Roberts View Post
    It should be in Volume 2.
    I found the Phillips collection version. Same tune all right, slightly different, but not much. Attributed to James Bryan and Bon Carlin. Still, I like the way I play it, the way I learned it from our Ky fiddler, which is how the utube sounds.

    I have long kept a note book (a pile of musical scribbles, three hole punched and stuffed in a three ring binder) of tunes I write out after I have learned them by ear. A fair number of the tunes I have never found written out anywhere, though most of them I have found after the fact, sometimes years later. Though normally there is not significant difference, sometimes I go with the written version, but more often than not I stick with what I figured out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffD View Post
    ...I have long kept a note book (a pile of musical scribbles, three hole punched and stuffed in a three ring binder) of tunes I write out after I have learned them by ear. ...
    I'm with you: whenever I learn a new tune, no matter how I learn it, I write it out. I write the tune name in my desk calendar and the notation in a file folder. That way, months (or years) later, I can go back and brush up on it. Earlier in the year I learned a tune called "Albemarle Hornpipe". If I hadn't written it in notation, if somebody came to me today and said: "play Albemarle" I wouldn't remember at all how it goes. As it is now, I look at the first few bars and I remember how to play it.
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    "Take Your Choice," O'Neal. Making a melody from George Barabazon to Take your Choice.

    Now I have to go find Ora Lee. . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by fatt-dad View Post
    "Take Your Choice," O'Neal. Making a melody from George Barabazon to Take your Choice.

    Now I have to go find Ora Lee. . .

    f-d
    Here's the link. It will tell you Symphotic TII wants to share a file with you. That's O.K., Symphotic TII is my company.

    https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D060307_62_7752913479

    I've got O'Neal around here somewhere, so "Take Your Choice" will be next up.
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    The tune I was in love with just before Ora-Lee was the tune Whiteface.

    I picked it up today and mmmmmmmmmmmm I love that tune.

    Here is Rachel Eddy playing it on a fiddle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P8A22xGFv4

    I do a little simpler version, not so fiddlistic.

    2 A parts, 2 B parts, 3 C parts.

    Its another old time tune that has my heart.

    Listen to the video a dozen or so times, and then pick up the mandolin - tell me if that's not love.
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    Started working my way through the slow jam play list on the Monroe Mandolin Camp website. They are all great tunes and fun to work out.
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