What's your new fiddle tune?

[shins]

Learned this one this evening. Made you guys a recording Coleman's March.mp3

[rubydubyr]

very nice, shins

[Franc Homier Lieu]

A few weeks ago I had a chance to read through this whole thread. So many really great tunes mentioned here. (I have added 'the Snouts and Ears of America' to my repertoire, and with 'Shove that Pig's Foot' and 'Pig Ankles Rag' I have quite a little hog themed set going).

Anyway, yesterday I sat down and learned Ostinelli's Reel, the version in Zav RT's book Fiddleworks vol. 3. It is like the E major partita of fiddle tunes, with lots of cross picking and even a dash up to the 12th fret of the E string.

[woodwizard]

Here's an old one I learned & pickin it on my A4. Really like the old melody of it but I don't know what it is called. If anyone knows please let me know if you don't mind and any history about it if possible. Thanks. Love old tunes like this

[woodwizard]

Messing around with Slocom Hollow today

[Dan Krhla]

Trying to translate Fiddle Fingers to mandolin:

http://youtu.be/93UXjziwVTY

Fun.

[woodwizard]

Trying to translate Fiddle Fingers to mandolin:

http://youtu.be/93UXjziwVTY

Fun.

Cool... that's gotta be easier than going the other way Just joshing ... It kinda sounds like Durham's Reel but with out the bridge where you go to (B) It appears to just go around the horn over & over A-D-E A-D-E A-D-E

[Mike Snyder]

Tater Patch
Icabods Last Ride
Butterfly

[woodwizard]

Remembering a couple... Rachel & Goldrush

[JeffD]

Tater Patch
Icabods Last Ride
Butterfly

Three great tunes. Do you do Tater Patch with the B part repeated three times, or four?

[Pick&Grin]

One reason is I like the tunes so much. Especially Cuckoo's Nest - I love that tune as it is. I really cannot improve on it.

Yup! Sure hard to improve on Cuckoo's Nest, JeffD.

[Jim Garber]

Been diving into my sordid tune past:
Texas Barbed Wire
Flowers of Edinburgh
Folding Down the Sheets
Lady of the Lake (3 versions)
Shuffle About
New Money
Saturday Night Breakdown

[Jim Nollman]

Aaaah, Lady of the Lake. So many different tunes, so little time to learn them all. I have heard four distinct tunes with that name, including one waltz. I perform 2 of those versions, and especially love to play, at breakneck speed, the exceedingly "notey" version I learned off a John Hartford recording. That one seems to move between A minor and and A major, which probably means its mixolydian.

[woodwizard]

Trying to refresh my memory on Leather Britches ... played on my A4

[Jim Garber]

Aaaah, Lady of the Lake. So many different tunes, so little time to learn them all. I have heard four distinct tunes with that name, including one waltz. I perform 2 of those versions, and especially love to play, at breakneck speed, the exceedingly "notey" version I learned off a John Hartford recording. That one seems to move between A minor and and A major, which probably means its mixolydian.

These are the three that I know:

• Henry Reed (G) -- I always thought that this was a New England contradance tune
• John Ashby (D)
• Norman Edmonds (A modal) -- is this the one you know from Hartford? I know the playing's bit rough, but I think you can get the gist of the tune.

I don't know the Lady of the Lake waltz.

[Jim Roberts]

Pretty Birdie. Here's a version by Kenny Baker, et al.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MM8Ac9gqUGE

Cheers.

[Mark Wilson]

Temperance Reel. Learned the A part from Bob Grants book but his B part is clunky(for me).

Today I put this on slow loop and learned the B part from Spencer Strickland: Cool tune!

[Mike Snyder]

JeffD, Tater Patch with x4 part B, but I've been known to square up stuff that should be crooked. It's my love of dancers,I suppose.

[rubydubyr]

Trying to refresh my memory on Leather Britches ... played on my A4

Very nice and "refreshing".

[Jim Nollman]

Never heard that first version of Lady of the Lake (in G).

The second version (in D) I know well but haven't learned it yet. Ironically my fiddle player keeps bringing it up for the band to learn, and the rest of us keep rejecting it ONLY because we already do two other versions of LOL and its too confusing. We've told her we'll be happy to learn it if she simply changes the name to anything else. I mean, imagine a set list with half the songs having the same name. .

The third version I play and enjoy, although I had to listen twice to the version Jim Garber posted to realize it was the same tune our band plays. The tune requires some atypical traditional chords to sound correctly.

The John Hartford version is currently one of my favorite fiddle tunes. Click to this page, then scroll to the bottom and click "Lady of the Lake" to give a listen. I find the A part of this version challenging to play at dance speed, because its so notey which causes the phrases to run past in a blur. Also, some phrases end on F# and others on G and my fingers sometimes get confused about where they are, precisely, in the melody. We perform it 3rd in a set with Seneca Square-dance and Susanna Gal.

[woodwizard]

Here's me and my OT pickin" buddies doing a version of Lady of the Lake ... the (G) one. And just added same version with just my 1918 A4 Henry Reed! what a fiddler!

[woodwizard]

It seems Sundays always turn out to be pickin & recording tunes that I'm trying to learn or refresh on... Like this one Candy Gal that I just put on soundcloud.

[JeffD]

JeffD, Tater Patch with x4 part B, but I've been known to square up stuff that should be crooked. It's my love of dancers,I suppose.

I know what you mean. From a musical point of view I am enamored of the crooked tune, but when I play a contra dance I either leave them out, or square them up.

[woodwizard]

I'm on a roll relearned Folding Down the Sheets ... I like that tune.
Last one I promise. Playing on the A4

[terzinator]

Temperance Reel. Learned the A part from Bob Grants book but his B part is clunky(for me).

Today I put this on slow loop and learned the B part from Spencer Strickland: Cool tune!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEuzEzjJ8fQ

Awesome version. Thanks for posting that.