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Thanks I've already written out a crude version in muse (Norman gets quite ornamental) - haven't stopped playing it all day - I will try to play other tunes, but then my mind just wanders into Kennedy Rag, infectious! I think he credited it to Ellis Hall ( at least the version he learned) on the liner notes ?
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When I was playing contra dance music more often, our band always found room to play the very lively set of Ross's Reel followed by Bachelder's Reel, both in F. Both Scottish.
I believe U]High Up on Tug[/U] is traditionally played in F. My banjo playing wife asked me to transpose it to G where it has lived forever after.
And let's not forget the Scott Joplin-like President Garfield's Hornpipe in Bb. This one is a challenge, jumping across octaves in an odd key, and best mastered if we include the second and even third position. I recommend it to anyone interested in expanding their reach.
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Jim Nollman
I believe U]High Up on Tug[/U] is traditionally played in F. My banjo playing wife asked me to transpose it to G where it has lived forever after.
All the versions i have found online seem to be in G from West Virginia fiddler Edden Hammons. I have been noticing that a lot of old time players are tuning their instruments down a step and that might be what you are (possibly) hearing for that tune.
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I know it's an old one for most of you all, but I just heard Chinckapin Hunting for the first time a few weeks ago and fell in love with it. I've been picking it non-stop on guitar. If you have recommendations of good tunes to pair it with, or good versions I should check out for mandolin I'd enjoy hearing them. Thanks
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..., or good versions I should check out for mandolin I'd enjoy hearing them. Thanks
Here is a great solo mandolin version from Greg Clarke, at the Portland Old-time Music Gathering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlWKeCgn3aE
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Beautiful. Love the sound of his mandolin too. Am I right in thinking he's playing three parts to the tune? I've found it as a two part tune played in D. A friend of mine located a three-part version played out of A, maybe similar to this one. I didn't sit down with the mandolin and try to figure it out, but it looks like he's playing it out of D to me.
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Beautiful. Love the sound of his mandolin too. Am I right in thinking he's playing three parts to the tune? I've found it as a two part tune played in D. A friend of mine located a three-part version played out of A, maybe similar to this one. I didn't sit down with the mandolin and try to figure it out, but it looks like he's playing it out of D to me.
Oh right, I should have asked you which Chinquapin Hunting it was about, they are two different tunes, unrelated as far as I know. The D tune has two parts and is more played in bluegrass circles (though I think it would work just as well as an old-time tune). The A tune is a very popular old-time tune and has three parts. That's the one he's playing here, and he does play it in A and with the three parts.
Ok so here are a few mandolin versions of the D Chinquapin Hunting that I like:
Eric Robertson & Dominick Leslie jamming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rl6mPXzMnc
Adam Steffey (recording):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ZlPb5Qf7A
Adam Steffey & Sierra Hull jamming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAWdAuwy4M
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Coleman's March. Such a lovely tune.
Plus two Cajun tunes in preparation for an upcoming session.
la Maraine
Reel de Nonc Will.
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I am working on Woodchopper Breakdown and Forked Deer. They are proving to be a bit challenging. I am experiencing difficulty keeping my pick direction consistent, especially when I try to add ornamentation. I just seem to fly off the track at that point.
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Woodchopper's Breakdown in key of D
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Old Time: Taylor Quickstep (F/C), Kennedy Rag (F), Sweet Marie (A), Jonah in the Windstorm (D), Sailing Over England (D)
Québécois: Reel du Semeur (D), Reel du Pecheur (Bb), Reel St Joseph (D), Louis’ First Tune (G), La Tuque Bleue (F)
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Just returned from The Centralia campout. Who knew my mandolin would sound so much at home playing with a traditional Cajun Band? My head and fingers are now abuzz with so many new tunes to learn. It seems the more old time tunes I master, the more I wonder if there are any musical boundaries to this increasingly sophisticated genre.
Newcastle Texas (as unpredictably crooked as something by Thelonious Monk)
Valley Forge (the throbbing melody reminds me more of Stravinsky than Appalachia)
Salt Spring
Thanks for your list, above, Jim Garber. I've been listening to a Quebecois CD almost every day this month.
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Where is music to Blake's March posted? I have been playing it by ear for some time, but not sure if I have it right. Thanks
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Where is music to Blake's March posted? I have been playing it by ear for some time, but not sure if I have it right. Thanks
Is this the tune?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW7bU4s9xRw
(or direct link)
If so, for written notation, I found these three options:
- An older MandolinCafe post with music notation, posted by member Mike Black in 2013.
- A rather detailed sheet music source, for fiddle apparently, is listed at Pete Showman's Tunes Page or direct link to the actual PDF sheetmusic file.
- The MandolinCafe TablEdit library has a page for Blake's March in TablEdit tab and standard notation. On that page, if you click where it says "Blake's March", you'll be able to download a TablEdit .tef file of the melody with MIDI 'guitar' backing, TablEdited by Mike Stangeland. The .tef file will work with either the TablEdit app or the free TEFview app, where you can playback the .tef file as MIDI sound while watching the scrolling sheetmusic and/or tab (you can choose which one you want to see) onscreen in the app. Has the usual TablEdit/TEFview handy features such as tempo adjustment (can slow it down for practice), also the ability to selectively mute either the melody or the 'guitar' accompaniment, etc. NFI in TablEdit, it's just a useful app that, apparently, a lot of people still use.
I haven't yet tried to play any of the above 3 sheet music files on actual instruments, might do that later, I did give the TablEdit .tef file a quick listen though and my first impression is that it seems to be in good working order as far as I can tell.
Seems like a cool tune. :mandosmiley:
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I like this transcription on Tater Joe's site: scroll down to alphabetical to find Blake's March.
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Still working on Wood chopper's Breakdown ! Been tough for these old fingers !
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Still working on Woodchoppers Breakdown ! Been a tough one for me ! My 3000th post ! A few behind Jim Garber above ! :)
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Blake's March
Chinquapin Hunting
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I used to play both of those songs, Jim. I need to pick them up again as they are both great tunes. Did you go to Centralia this summer and, if so, did you pick up these tunes there?
Here’s one I really wanna work on:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_I_hmwUMHzE
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"O'Connell's Trip To Parliament", an Irish trad tune that fits surprisingly easily onto clawhammer banjo: :disbelief: :grin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ri-Jf1XJ0
(or direct link) NOTE that for the above accompaniment faux-'mandolin' CGDAE guitar, in order to keep up with the banjo :grin: I had to resort to only playing about half the usual melody notes, :redface: best I can do right now without further practice (or at my age now, might be the best I could do regardless of how much practice). Also, it ain't bluegrass, thus no "breaks" or "solos", although I might try that in some future version. Oh, and at 0:43 above, I sort of lost the melody for a moment, but as my old piano teacher taught me "if you make a mistake, just keep on playing, keep the rhythm and jump back in when you can" so that's what I tried to do. (Yeah, I know, the high-pitched capo'd-up guitar sounds too shrill, I seldom play it that way but I don't have a mandolin right now so "it is what it is" and it suffices, sort of, for mandolin practice, or at least mandolin scale-length and fingering practice... Although as far as fifths-tuned instruments I much prefer the more mellow-sounding lower-pitched octave-mandolin scale length as in video below.)
An alternate earlier slower version below, this one actually has all the melody notes (and some impromptu variations) but it's my first try at playing this tune so it also has some boo-boos :redface: (duly noted as they occur) - melody on octave-GDAEB electric guitar, and trying out some different chords in Chordpulse backing. As to the pics below, I wasn't sure which parliament to send O'Connell to, so at 3:12 there are five different Parliaments to choose from, :whistling: maybe one of them is the correct one. And it seems that this video's Mr or Ms O'Connell lives in a far-away region and has to travel numerous continents :disbelief: via steamboat, skiing, railroad, flying, sailboats, and... a... pirate ship? :grin: (such are the limitations of using only legal/free online clip art) :)) Anyway, here's my earlier version of this tune on octave-GDAEB guitar and Chordpulse backing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6jAYCru4ZE
(or direct link)
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Addendas to my post above:
- Here's the basic standard notation and printable PDF mandolin TAB for O'Connell's Trip To Parliament (you can look at that PDF in your browser, and also you can use that page's Download button to save the file for later, you do not have to log-in to anything). That notation is what I was loosely working from when I was first learning the tune - for the basic melody, anyway. I wrote out the repeats, so you don't have to decipher any repeat dots or anything, just play it straight through, but in essence there's really only 8 bars of notes to learn. :grin: As with any of this stuff, adapt/modify/embellish/improvise to suit. :)
- If anyone uses the TablEdit app or TefView app, here's a downloadable tef-format version (skip the "we're sorry can't preview" blurb and just click or tap the Download button). This one *does* use repeat dots because I was too lazy to re-write the other bars (I always have a tough time getting anything done in TablEdit, compared to MuseScore which is what I use for most stuff nowadays) and I can never remember how to copy/paste in TablEdit. This is also just the melody, no guitar accompaniment, because the chords I prefer are undoubtedly not what most people would prefer so I just didn't add any chords.
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One of my favourite fiddle tunes. I’d really like play it, but it would have to come out sounding like John Carty’s version. Not sure if it’s possible...
Still sets me off with this crazy idea to try to (re)learn the fiddle
Paddy Lynn’s Delight.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LmMJZYtbFRI
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"I don't love nobody" by The Skillet Lickers. Great C tune with an Am bridge.
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Dawg Daze ( yeah I'd call that a fiddle tune)
Ashland Breakdown,
heres Dixie Hoedown on the Weber Black Ice Octave