you playing Done Gone in Bb?
Anybody play Logan County Blues? I'm getting that below my fingers, 'cause a fiddle playing buddy began to call it at the local jams.
f-d
you playing Done Gone in Bb?
Anybody play Logan County Blues? I'm getting that below my fingers, 'cause a fiddle playing buddy began to call it at the local jams.
f-d
¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
Jim
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Only way to fly...you playing Done Gone in Bb?
I saw some tab, never heard the tune and made music from the numbers and stems. It's always interesting to "learn" a tune this way and then hear the original later - after you got it in your head the way you thought the music read.
It's all good, fun and interesting though. . .
f-d
¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
I just found this posted by Adam Tanner, sure helps a lot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM1W09xpKTg
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
I think I've got the hang of Billy in the low ground
been playing it on octave - thought the open "C" would work better on Mandola - but my fingers seem to prefer the GDAE for this one
is it just me or do Thile and Daves throw in a couple of extra bars in the B part ?
I haven't heard Thile and Daves' version of BITL but some old time players do add some extra beats to it.
Jim
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Playing lately:
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Hector the Hero. It's a waltz and its a march at the same time. Must be Scottish, because i always hear bagpipes in my head when I play it. I'm just starting to record my own arrangement, playing a vastly overdriven electric Godin mandolin
Reel Du Quêteux Tremblay. I am presuming that this tune is French Canadian. I'm learning it off a recording by my current favorite fiddler, Laura Risk. If you don't know her music, I definitely recommend you check her out. Her playing demonstrates a unique sense of dynamics.
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Sandy
So, now I'm learning, "Logan County Blues." Some backstory about coal mining, murders and bad union/police power. Need to read up a bit. . .
f-d
¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
The song I am really digging right now is Elk River Blues. Its fantastic. Here is a video that I play along with. I really like this arrangement.
Amateurs practice until they can play it right.
Professionals practice until they can't play it wrong.
Collings MTO
Epiphone Mandobird IV
Yamaha Piano
Roland AX-1
Dew-Drop Hornpipe
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
lumberjack's waltz
heard it on Ostroushko's Minnesota CD
has a very nice A minor to E Major resolve
I assume it is French Canadian - seems to be a concertina tune
I wonder how many tunes dubbed "fiddle tunes" were actually written on a different instrument like penny whistle or harp
I've added a bunch to my brain recently...
Beaumont Rag
Cattle in the Cane
Old Cluck Hen
Over the Waterfall
Forked Deer
Texas Gales
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
Good times, although I know some of the first ones I learned are going to leak out, never to be remembered.
Funny you mention Logan County Blues, f-d... just came across a Wayne Henderson vid, and they appear to be jamming on that at the 7:45 mark, and just I posted on the forum asking what tune it was!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQ8xRBaQOs
Those are some good tunes, terzy. Cattle In The Cane is a dandy that few play.
BITLG is one of those numbers that the B part accompaniment is done differently, depending who you pick it with. Some go to F chord, some stay with the Am. Either way it sounds good. Joe Carr had that number in one of his early tab books, he got some nifty lines in it, a la Texas style.
cattle in the cane is on my list but I keep getting distracted
over the waterfall is one of the first tunes I learned on mandolin
just yesterday I was directed to the Wikipedia page of the Rising Fawn String Ensemble after reading the notes for Ostroushko's Mandolin Chronicles
I used to have most of RFSE stuff on vinyl - and when I saw the song list from the album , well I just had to go back and rediscover "Over the Waterfall", funny how an old tune that has been "separated" from you can find it's way back
Doc's version of Blackberry Blossom on guitar
This French tune is so delightful that you can't stop playing it. Its an addiction.
You got an mp3/video/wax cylinder of that witch's broomstick?
Yes, I'd like to HEAR that one. Meanwhile;
Valley Forge and Pretty Little Shoes
Somehow, I feel that a youtube search for witches broomstick might NOT result in that tune popping up.
Mike Snyder
I have not ever heard it recorded or seen a video of it. My google search was fruitless.
I discovered it in one of my monthly tune around sessions where a bunch of us get together and bring obscure tune books and just poke around and find really cool gems like this.
I will see about recording an MP3 to upload.
If you want to give it a try its not very hard. Its a set up tune, where the A part makes you expect something and the B part delivers, not exactly what you were made to expect, but something better.
summoning all of my high-school choir sightreading skills, I tried to play it in my head looking at the notation... I think I get the idea of 3/4s of it.
But I got to the doublestops, and I lost the plot. So I guess I'll just have to play it to find out.
I like a good mystery.
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