Good one tz. Are you transcribing?
MG that gil sounds nice
Good one tz. Are you transcribing?
MG that gil sounds nice
Worked up a little (G) tune medley and also working on Twinkle twinkle and a Kenny Baker tune A & E Reel (nothing perfect just practicing on a Sunday)
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
You'll got me stuck on 8th of January, great old timey tune, workin it up on the octave
I finally got around to transcribing Jay Ungar's tune Fiddler's Elbow, and I'm working up a mandola-mandolin duet variation. This tune had been haunting my dreams for quite some time. I like a happy fiddle tune as much as the next guy, but these dark gloomy tunes really get to me on an emotional level. It's a fairly easy tune, with a crooked "A" part. I'd post the notation/tab for it, but this is copyrighted.
Here's a great amateur version that does an excellent job of catching the mood of the tune:
I had bookmarked this for a rainy day. Worked with the Tab for a while but in the end just learned by ear listening to this version using Transcribe! software.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZoMN1tYuqw.
Maybe not a fiddle tune but wow what a beautiful piece of music! Made for a really enjoyable day on mandolin. Thanks for the link Mike.
Prince Charles Jig from Ryan's Mammoth. There are fun string crossings.
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
made a vid ... I am liking this tune today Sorry in advance... I'm sure there are a lot of great pickers out there that can make this old A4 sound good.
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I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
I'm currently working on Lazy John. It's still way too rough playing but I really am enjoying the tune.
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Ok here's Little Dutch Girl today I recorded quick ... I especially like the way Mike Compton & Rafe Stefanini do it
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I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
quite enjoyable woodwiz!
If I miss one day’s practice, I notice it. If I miss two days’ practice, the critics notice it. If I miss three days’ practice, the public notices it.
Franz Liszt, 1894
I am enjoying "Swinging on a Gate" from Vance Henry ( http://home.hiwaay.net/~vehenry/index.htmvia ) via "Woodwizard" (Mike Parks)
thanks again Mike.
Sandy
I have been learning "New Mexico Waltz". Its a beautiful tune by Jay Ungar, (Ashokan Farewell, Lovers Waltz, etc.), that I found in the Jay Ungar Molly Mason waltz book "Catskill Mountain Waltzes and Airs".
The tune has some magical moments.
Recently been playing:
shove that pigs foot a little further into the fire
grasshopler sitting on a sweet potato vine
over the waterfall
josio
arkansas traveller
soldier's joy
red haired boy/jolly begger man
nixons farewell
fly around my pretty little miss
and so on
and so on...
play so many fiddle tunes.... on the fiddle too!
I got an ear worm of, "Horgalĺten." Began working it up Monday and making progress!
Lots of great tunes being worked on! I love playing, "Twinkle, Twinkle" and also, "Swinging on a Gate."
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
Swinging on a Gate IS a great one.
Just got an email from a buddy with his list of tunes, so I have my hands full to learn those I don't know yet.
One on his list I still haven't gotten to is Leather Britches. Maybe I'll start with that.
Another great G tune is, "Waynesboro."
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
not really a fiddle tune, but Panhandle Rag has my attention
Having a great time with "New Five Cents." Got the tab from Tune of the Week at Mandozine, and have found DW Music Expedition video to be really helpful. Fun stuff!
Collings MT-O Sunburst (2014)
Kentucky KM630 (early 1990s Korean) w/ K&K Twin Internal
Vega K-Style Mandolin Banjo (1917)
Vega N-Style 17-Fret Tenor Banjo (1922)
Deering Goodtime 2 5-String Banjo w/ Resonator
Walk along john to kansas
shenandoah falls.
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
I have been returning to the fiddle tunes from my sordid youth -- ones that I sort of forgot:
- Folding Down the Sheets
- Green Willis
- Lady of the Lake (three versions)
- Woodchopper's Reel
- Flowers of Edinburgh
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
[QUOTE=Jim Garber;1372894]I have been returning to the fiddle tunes from my sordid youth -- ones that I sort of forgot:
Funny Jim, that seems to happen with each new tune I learn....get it down, on to the next one, and "Poof...the first one is gone...
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