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Ora lee
Sally in the garden
Winderslide
Magpie
Battle cry of freedom

The golden ticket

Spending time learning and relearning a few rags. Once you learn one, it gets easier to learn many others.

Peacock rag
Chattanooga
Banks of the Kaney

Aah Winderslide. That was so much fun pairing a mandolin with a tuba.

I messaged Erynn. She told me she composed it as an exercise for the fiddle tuning EEAE, and explicitly to pair with Texas...

Learning these two tunes I first heard from an erynn Marshall recording. Can someone here point me to the composer of Runaway? Contact info would help immensely.

One question to Charles E. I notice that of all the tunes you list, and which I also happen to know, I play in the key of A. So what are you doing? Are you tuning to open G, and then playing these A...

I learned Oklahoma red bird in C. Great tune.

Oh Henry.

Yes oh henry is a tune to learn for sure

I love to hear these kind of homemade old tune recordings, and I especially like the harmonizing and the old time push. These two sound great.

However, This YouTube in D doesn’t sound much like...

Oddly, the tune I learned reminds me Not so much of old time, but of the henry mancinii compositions from the 1950's. If I ever get to record it, I’ll do it mid-speed with a strong 50s hipster...

I learned it In C from a recording by Henry Barnes. I use the amazing slow downer for learning most tunes. It’s funny you mention The key of D, since it seems way more typical of the world of C...

Yes, Jim Garber, both are standout tunes for me as well. I seem to be focusing a lot of attention lately on the deep wealth of C tunes composed in the basic style of traditional jazz and often heard...

Jonah in the Windstorm.
Half Past Four

Old Bob.

Cuffy
Black cat in the briar patch
Whistlebee

Whistlebee took 10 minutes to learn fluently because the melody is so strong. First recorded in 1924 in Alabama by a mr dix.

Cuffy is great fun,...

How about mandolin playing melody with just banjo and bass. Great fun. And add a fiddle to let the mandolin play double stop unison melody and sometimes focus only on G and D string double stops or...

I’m thinking of the concurrent improv style of tuba skinny. Especially the slower stuff where they often start with all three horns improvising in very strict niches at the same time. Anyone doing...

A few more thoughts. As far as a mandolin playing with horns, I’ve done it a few times, my favorite was a few old time sessions with a tuba player. I recall having great fun with notey tunes without...

Thanks for all the good comments. Actually what I am doing is threefold. First, I'm practicing alone to learn some of the old jazz tunes I have always loved. I am fairly familiar with F from Scottish...

I've been playing a bit of 1920's era trad Jazz lately. Not being a facile reader, I learn tunes by repetition using the amazing slow downer (ASD).

So many of these tunes were recorded in keys...

I have never experienced an old time session where somebody "busted" somebody else. I have once or twice participated in jams where an inexperienced player gets asked nicely to tone it down for...

I've never heard of that term "hybrid" mandolin. The comments suggest that you simply mean any mandolin that's not a Gibson A. is that correct?

Mandolin players are not so prevalent at the old...

That's some pretty nice playing there, Mr Sweeney. Do you also play mandolin? Going to have to take a close look at Dixie Hoedown.

To Jim Roberts. No I picked up the Blake's March on this thread....

Blake's March
Chinquapin Hunting