What's your new fiddle tune?

[fatt-dad]

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

[Jim Garber]

My rendition is nothing like Tommy Jarrell's. I mean is that right?!?

Nothing is right or wrong. Tommy's is his version. There are lots of versions of that tune. Where did you learn it?

[AlanN]

you playing Done Gone in Bb?

Only way to fly...

[fatt-dad]

Nothing is right or wrong. Tommy's is his version. There are lots of versions of that tune. Where did you learn it?

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

[stevejay]

So many mentions of my hero, Norman Blake. Anyone working on "Blake's March"? Absolutely wonderful tune. My tablature posted here in that section is pretty close to Norman's arrangement (forget the harmony part...I wrote it years ago. Passable, but not great. I was just learning how to do that....)

The Montana Mandolin Society has a recording of Blake's March on one of their CDs that is also great.

I learned that one, I also learned Cedar Creek. Norman Blake is also my inspiration.

Hmmm- Mike B posted that in '08. Oh well good tunes stand the test of time.

[Charles E.]

I love rags on mandolin. I think Hawkins is playing a mandolin-banjo.

I just found this posted by Adam Tanner, sure helps a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM1W09xpKTg

[tmsweeney]

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 ?

[Jim Garber]

I haven't heard Thile and Daves' version of BITL but some old time players do add some extra beats to it.

[Jim Nollman]

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.

[Sandy Beckler]

Alexander's Hornpipe

Sandy

[fatt-dad]

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

[Londy]

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.

[Jack Roberts]

Dew-Drop Hornpipe

[tmsweeney]

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

[Mike Black]

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 ?

Yes, Thile and Daves add an extra tag. I believe that Chris learned it from Stuart Duncan and doesn't like to play the tune without it anymore. It is kinda cool.

[tmsweeney]

Yes, Thile and Daves add an extra tag. I believe that Chris learned it from Stuart Duncan and doesn't like to play the tune without it anymore. It is kinda cool.

then I guess that's the new standard version of BITLG

[terzinator]

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

[AlanN]

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.

[tmsweeney]

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

[Rick Schmidlin]

Doc's version of Blackberry Blossom on guitar

[JeffD]

This French tune is so delightful that you can't stop playing it. Its an addiction.

[terzinator]

You got an mp3/video/wax cylinder of that witch's broomstick?

[Mike Snyder]

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.

[JeffD]

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.

[terzinator]

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.