What's your new fiddle tune?

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Temperance Reel. Named in irony or aspiration I think.
Thanks to Mike Stangeland for the transcription on Tab|Edit! I'll tackle Big Sciota next.

Daniel

[woodwizard]

I really love Norman Blake tunes. Here's one on my A4 (Bright Days)
https://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/...n-blakes-tunes

[LongBlackVeil]

From "the mandolin of norman blake" I just learned "John Brown's March" I got the melody down but I just need to learn the chords and get the hang of a little ornamentation he adds.

Now I'm starting on "Green Castle Hornpipe"

[Mike Snyder]

The Greencastle is a great hornpipe. I'm more old-timely these days and am going to try Ol' Mose. This thread is the best idea I ever had. Thanks to everyone for all the great tunes.

[fatt-dad]

o.k. now I'm stuck on, "King of the Pipers." Picked it up from the social group, got an ear worm. Almost got it under my fingers now.

f-d

[LongBlackVeil]

The Greencastle is a great hornpipe. I'm more old-timely these days and am going to try Ol' Mose. This thread is the best idea I ever had. Thanks to everyone for all the great tunes.

it really is a fun little tune to play. I love this dvd from homespun, Norman did a good job picking tunes that were fun to play but also were relatively easy to pick up for a novice like myself.

I also just learned hollow poplar and forked deer (not on the dvd recently) im starting to put together a nice little repertoire now

[fatt-dad]

Oh yeah, and I'm relearning, "Richmond Cotillion."

f-d

[JeffD]

Quince Dillion's High D.

What a great tune. Played it a bunch this last week at Clifftop.

[fatt-dad]

King of the Pipers, King of the Fairies, Morning Dew, Planxty George Barabazon, and Haste to the Wedding are the most recent. Well, and the Bach Invention #13.

f-d

[Larry S Sherman]

I'm working on "Boston Boy" from Grisman's new book.

Larry

[Baron Collins-Hill]

The green gowned lass (starts at 1:05):

[Cheryl Watson]

Tallahassee

[cjspiteri]

Perfecting Soldiers Joy and Leather Britches (is it fiddle or grass?). Also working on Rights of Man. Having difficulty with the A to B transition in Rights as my fingers keep wanting to play Leather Britches B section. Its about 3 notes holding me up.

[tmsweeney]

Managed to "get" "Leather Britches" (I think), started out on "Mississippi Sawyer" but then side tracked by the Dawg Grass book with " Pupville" ( realizing that's going to take a loooong time to get even close to speed) then I found "Pig on the Engine" tab on Mandozine and I can't let that one go, always really loved that tune, Ostroushko playin Blake with Norman on guitar from the "Original Underground Music from the Mysterious South" album, which is now most of Natasha's Waltz CD.

[Mike Snyder]

Jenny Comb Your Hair
Shanghai Rooster

Thanks to Pete in Fayetteville

[Don Grieser]

Norman and Nancy by Sam Bush

[Mike Bunting]

Big Scioty, Brown County breakdown and I'm trying to turn Scrugg's Nashville tune into a mandolin tune.

[tmsweeney]

Here's my attempt at "Pig on the Engine"
thanks to Mike Strangeland and Mandozine for the Tab.

[Denny Gies]

Kind of embarrassed to admit it after all these years but "Whiskey Before Breakfast" is my newest.

[Dave Reiner]

Resurrecting a couple of Oklahoma tunes I first learned long ago:
I Went to the River and I Couldn't Get Across
Where the Chicken Got the Axe

[Jim Garber]

Merriweather (Clyde Davenport) and Kitty Puss (Buddy Thomas) and revisiting some old tunes I have always liked but have played for years: Folding Down the Sheets, Briarpicker Brown, and 9 Miles to Louisville.

[GreenMTBoy]

I have been on the Road to Lisdoonvarna & Swallowtail Jig for about the last week .

[Tobin]

My latest fiddle tune love affair is April (or April's Waltz). What a lovely tune, especially with someone playing fill behind the melody. The chord progression is wonderful, with heavy use of the vi chord.

And while Cuckoo's Nest is an "oldie but goodie", I've been back on it for the last week. There's a lot of room there for variation, much like the Nickel Creek version (blasphemy perhaps, but they put some nice tweaks on it). It lends itself particularly well to a harmony mandolin duet.

[LongBlackVeil]

I have been on the Road to Lisdoonvarna & Swallowtail Jig for about the last week .

Now add tripping up the stairs!

Coincidentally that's the new fiddle tune I've been working on today

[tmsweeney]

After considerable contemplation into the Dawg mysteries; I believe Pupville has finally clicked
here it is at half speed or less