What's your new fiddle tune?

[Sandy Beckler]

Big Sciota...the Bush version

Sandy

[Mike Snyder]

Jeff Sturgeon is so crooked I hafta play it standing up so I don't fall outa my chair, and I STILL haven't got that third part right.
Peter Peter, Eat Your Heart Out is a spankin' good tune. 827 posts. Starting this thread is one of the few things I ever got right on the first go-round. I want to thank you all, just once, and real big, for all the great tunes.

Thanks for the Jeff Sturgeon video, Mike. Gives me something to suffer over.

[Sandy Beckler]

Jeff Sturgeon is so crooked I hafta play it standing up so I don't fall outa my chair, and I STILL haven't got that third part right.
Peter Peter, Eat Your Heart Out is a spankin' good tune. 827 posts. Starting this thread is one of the few things I ever got right on the first go-round. I want to thank you all, just once, and real big, for all the great tunes.

Thanks for the Jeff Sturgeon video, Mike. Gives me something to suffer over.

Your the man Mike.....

Sandy

[woodwizard]

Another AEAE fiddle tune ~ Hangmans Reel. This is my OT band the Mountain Boomers pickin it in Mt Ida Arkansas last Sat. ... and thanks! Sandy & Mike

[Jim Nollman]

Booth Shot Lincoln :::: totally addictive. Be careful, this one causes brain damage.

Lady of the Lake ::: There are at least two fiddle tunes with this same name. I'm learning the version that (I am told) is a staple of New England contra dances, as opposed to the version which you find so often on iTunes including an inspired recording by John Hartford. Our band is now assembling Lady of the Lake into a dance set with Cuckoo's nest and Shenandoah Falls.

[drbluegrass]

Daley's Reel
Roanoke
Rebecca
Tacoma
Gray Eagle
Red Haired Boy
Gold Rush

[woodwizard]

QUOTE=Jim Nollman;Booth Shot Lincoln :::: totally addictive. Be careful, this one causes brain damage. QUOTE]

I love that tune "Booth Shot Lincoln"

Another one I really like is "Yellow Barber"... Here's a cool kyaking video of our bass players son on his latest paddeling adventure and he used my OT band for the background audio of us playing "Yellow Barber" I think Bluegrass , OT & Folk music go well for kyaking vids.

[Wilbur James]

I have worked out "Indian ate a woodchuck" still need to keep it flowing but it is a fun tune to play.

[Mandomax]

dust in the lane/cotton pickin time

[Gan Ainm]

Spending the summer trying to learn Herschels "Rebecca" with variants by the man himself and Butch B. Ironically a Butch transcription from camp is actually closer to what H.S. usually plays than the transcriptions in the Herschel video or book which have some odd quirks (THAT will teach me to try to use notation), but of course nothing like the man himself playing it whether on teaching video, You tube video, recordings of his own and the Jim Mills recording. Figure if I can get this down I'll know my way around key of "B" a lot better, and there are a LOT of nuances in the versions, and of course it's "crooked" structure. And it's kind of the "separator” in a jam I attend! Finding the VLC media player great for slowing down videos and MP3’s.

[Mike Snyder]

GREAT version of Yellow Barber, Mike. Thanks! One of my favorites.

[woodwizard]

Thanks Mike!
John just sent me a link to another of his paddeling adventures with us playing "Hangman's Reel" in the audio background. A great jamming fiddle tune! I remember at Mountain View this year we must of played that tune for 15 or 20 minutes when some great fiddlers and clawhammer banjo pickers joined in with us on that tune jamming around the courthouse square at the folk festival. Much Fun!

[Bill D]

New player taking lessons. Working on Old Joe Clark for our mountaintop dulcimer group.

[JeffD]

OK, a parcel of tunes I worked on at Clifftop and now call my own:

Old Yellow Dog
Farewell Trion
Hell Broke Loose in George
One Eyed Cat
Bog Watrer Hornpipe
Henry Reed Breakdwon
Hog Skin
Tater Patch

and I fell in love with

Lee Highway Blues
Tupolo Blues

[Mike Snyder]

Gettin' wound up for Winfield!

John Stinsons'
Half Past Four

Lots of homework @ Carpazon

Old-time jam every day after Land Rush at the camp with no name. Look for a big school bus with Abbey Road in the headliner and a little, highly polished Airstream trailer on 14th street straight south of the grandstand,about fifty yards east of stage 5. One o'clock in the PM.

That's 1300, to me. See ya there!

[woodwizard]

One re-visited by my band the Mountain Boomers Old-time String band. "Yellow Barber"

http://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/yellow-barber

and another "Forked Deer"

http://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/forked-deer

[woodwizard]

And one more of my favorites... Indian Ate a Woodchuck ... picken' at a little show in Mt Ida Arkansas

http://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/i...te-a-woodchuck

[Jim Nollman]

thanks guys for all the new tune suggestions. Definitely going to learn Farewell to Trion. Also check out my own new ones:

high up on tug.

Billy the Kid

[Jack Roberts]

Silver Bells (That Ring in the Night) with the old Bob Wills phrasing.

[stonefingers]

Ok, I dont know if this is the right thread to put this on, but it seemed like a good guess.
Being the "proud father", I just wanted to share...

My youngest daughter (9) started playing fiddle in February of this year (2012). Last week we had the chance to take her down to compete in the Indiana State Fair Fiddle Competition; thinking it would be a good experience for her to see how it all works.

She played three tunes - "Bile them cabbage", "Blue Violet Waltz", and "Devil's Dream".

Completely unexpected to us, she won third place in the "11 and under" division!! It's been over a week ago, and I think I'm still grinning!

[Pete Summers]

Wow, Stonefingers, mighty talented little gal you got there! No wonder you're beaming with pride. Congrats to you and the young lady for that winning performance.

[Mike Snyder]

Little Billy Wilson..................is giving me fits.

[Denny Gies]

Brown County Breakdown from the Dreadful Snakes,"Snakes Alive" CD. In the key of E.

[wildpikr]

Hey stonefingers...congratulations to 'Little Maggie'!

[Charles E.]

GREAT version of Yellow Barber, Mike. Thanks! One of my favorites.

Here are some friends doing Floyd the Barber.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrGjs0ihtzM