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    I am working on Cookhouse Joe. Fun tune, getting addicting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by woodwizard View Post
    Practicing on this cool fiddle tune today entitled "Sarah Armstrongs Tune" ...
    on my A4
    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.
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by dusty miller View Post
    Ashland Breakdown for me. Really like the sound of it. Not up anywhere near speed yet but really fun to work on.
    You talked me into it. I copied this youtube version best I could. A great C tune that is easy to adapt

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    Redwing.
    something like this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vb3e7lLrWc

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    Shove The Pigs foot........
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    Mallard Island Hymn .
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    'Granny Does Your Dog Bite?' - 2 different versions.

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    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.
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by acousticphd View Post
    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
    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:
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Possums Tail is Bare.pdf  

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    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

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    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobin View Post
    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:
    Ok, this (Possum's Tail is Bare) is the next one for me.

    Thanks for doing the tab, Tobin!

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    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.
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    Don Greiser- very nice
    Jeff Davis is one of those tunes that really works with multi instruments in unison

    that mando sounds great

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by terzinator View Post
    Heading to a fest in a couple of weeks, so I need to get back into it!
    Nothing like a festival to motivate one. Both before and after.
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodwizard View Post
    Just now did a one take stab at Ed Haley's Half Past Four. A very cool OT fiddle tune that rolls right along.
    I searched the thread and this popped up. Great reference! So, last night the fiddle player called, "Half Past Four." I'm going to learn it. I also see a few others have learned it too.

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