I am working on Cookhouse Joe. Fun tune, getting addicting.
I am working on Cookhouse Joe. Fun tune, getting addicting.
Sounds great. I play a much less fancy B part.
But I find that is true in general, my versions of tunes tend to be less fancy. Like rough carpentry, its all there, but I tend to let the fiddles do the dry wall and molding and trim.
But for a solo I might work it more like your version.
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Here's a fiddle tune I'm revisiting on my A4... " Rock the Cradle Joe"
https://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/rock-the-cradle-joe
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You talked me into it. I copied this youtube version best I could. A great C tune that is easy to adapt
Redwing.
something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vb3e7lLrWc
Shove The Pigs foot........
We few, we happy few.
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Mallard Island Hymn .
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And Devils Dream
https://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/devils-dream
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2017 Gibson J45
'Granny Does Your Dog Bite?' - 2 different versions.
Jeff Sturgeon ... a little bit strange old-time fiddle tune that I like. Have to play it every once in a while so I don't forget it. Here's me and some friends pickin' it at my birthday a couple of years ago.
https://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/jeff-sturgeon
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2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Here's a cool one I came across on youtube a few weeks ago: "The possum's tail is bare".
Interesting challenge trying to emulate the bowing accents on this type of tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4JrZtLCU8
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Wow! I liked that so much, I did some searching on it. Found the notation for it, which is pretty basic but similar enough to get the gist of the tune. I notice that the written version (supposedly from the same source, Melvin Wine) has the A and B parts reversed from what the fellow in the video is playing. I kinda like his version better than the written version, as the A part of the written tune (which goes down to a C chord in the second measure) just sounds better to my ear as a B part, not an A part.
Will definitely be adding this to my repertoire. Thanks for posting it!
My TablEdit skills are not that great, but I transcribed it to a .tef file, then printed it to a .pdf file, if anyone can benefit from it (sorry about the demo version watermark). This is faithful to the written version I found which has the A and B parts reversed from the video above:
Learning a few new contra dance sets. The first one is Hangman's Reel, with the tune's A, B, C, and D part played as a set in itself.
A second set includes three rather easy tunes (Seneca Square dance, Flop-eared mule, and Needle Case) that sound good when I focus on adding double-stop oomph to provide counterpoint to the fiddler's melody.
A bigger challenge is my third new set consisting of two tunes, Woodchopper's Reel and Cuckoo's Nest. These melodies are something special. I already play them well enough in my living room, but they become quite challenging when accelerated to a proper dance speed of 112 bpm. Our band start with CN (three times), then into WR (three times), then back to CN (until the caller ends the dance). I am working hard to keep the melodies intact with all their musical filigree, and without dropping any notes which would make it much easier to play at speed.
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Newly re-visited:
New River Ride
Happy Go Lucky
from the pen of Doyle Lawson
I'm currently in a fiddle-tune slump.
Haven't worked out any new ones in a few months... (and a few are starting to fall off the radar!)
Heading to a fest in a couple of weeks, so I need to get back into it!
about to dance speed on Maggie Brown's Favorite (O'Carolan). Also working up Planxty George Barabazon.
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Jeff Davis by Norman Blake off the "Original Underground Music from the Mysterious South" Played on Stanley A5 #46.
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that is one nice sounding growly mandolin.
Explore some of my published music here.
—Jim
Sierra F5 #30 (2005)
Altman 2-point (2007)
Portuguese fado cittern (1965)
Don Greiser- very nice
Jeff Davis is one of those tunes that really works with multi instruments in unison
that mando sounds great
I have been under the spell of Jay Ungar's "Ashokan Farewell" for the last few days .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZASM8OX7s
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