Sounding pretty good: Congress Reel, Beth Cohen's
Getting there: March of the Banchory Strathspey & Reel Society
Next Up: Deveron Slide
Wonder if I could: Learn Flower O' The Quern played as a Stratspey
Sounding pretty good: Congress Reel, Beth Cohen's
Getting there: March of the Banchory Strathspey & Reel Society
Next Up: Deveron Slide
Wonder if I could: Learn Flower O' The Quern played as a Stratspey
Last edited by Brent Hutto; Nov-01-2010 at 10:30am.
I've been learning Angelena the Baker, Stoney Point, and Forked Deer on the mandolin. But I'm just a beginer...
Let it rain, let it pour,
Let it rain a whole lot more,
'Cause I got them deep river blues.
Little Dutch Girl.
~~~~~~
Mike
Here's a goodie: Chinuapin Hunting
The Chiquapin Hunting I've learned has a completely different melody than that with 3 parts to it. But I like that version too.
"Moses Hoe the Corn" is my new one ... great little melody to it.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Ah, I finally nailed the Fakebook Kesh jig, guess the cumbersome part was why I had some trouble!. Some other versions are available in other books I have. I'll check out eh Pogues version ... and the Song of the Week versions.
Working on Kid on the Mountain right now, but using Mel Bay's session book, not the Fakebook version. It's a bugger of a tune, but I love listening to it.
Finally aced Wind that Shakes the Barley, but nowhere near that triplet action that Jill does so easily.
Love Chiquapin Hunting .... it may go on the back burner!
Just visiting.
1923 Gibson A jr Paddlehead mandolin
Newish Muddy M-4 Mandolin
New Deering Goodtime Special open back 17 Fret Tenor Banjo
"Pretty Little Dog" is a pretty dandy little tune I've been picken recently.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Lantern in the Ditch ... D tune
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
I do love the hornpipes, no matter for their origin. Now learning Walsh's Hornpipe from an old Kevin Burke recording. While the melody is simple, the phrases seem to possess an odd interchangeable equity, meaning that any of them can be played in any order, yet the tune retains its identity and its internal integrity.
The thing that holds it all together (and which makes it hard to get it out of my head) is the lavish use of hammer ons and offs, sometimes across three notes. This is not an easy thing to do well on the E string of a mandolin. If you want an exercise in such technique, learn this tune. If you learn to play it well, you will never forget it.
Explore some of my published music here.
—Jim
Sierra F5 #30 (2005)
Altman 2-point (2007)
Portuguese fado cittern (1965)
Little Drummer Boy
Petit Papa Noel
Silent Night
…“ Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then but the strings remain forever ”… June Masters Bacher
Greencastle Hornpipe
Blakes' March
Abes' Retreat
Mike Snyder
Grub Springs.
Crosseyed Fiddler in E .
'09 Passernig A5
'82 Kentucky
'05 Deering Sierra
'81 Gold Star maple archtop
'79 Guild D-35SB
'98 Gibson J-100
Mid 1890's German fiddle
I know everyone says "it's simple" but Angeline the Baker still is eluding my fingers.
Cotton Patch Rag, a al Mr. Bush.
And Common Ground, off Rice Backwaters.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Bonepart's Retreat in D. It seems that in some parts of the country players start in different sections of the tune but it all comes out OK anyway.
Grub Springs from Clyde Curley and the Oxymorons CD and Sandy Boys from Matt Brown's Old Time Fiddle Lessons Vol. 1 CD.
Old Time Mandolin Music -> http://www.oldtimemandolinmusic.com
Glad it's not just me that finds this song not easy! Mel Bay Session's version of Kid on the Mountain wasn't quite working, so I yanked the first four bars from another version I found over at the The Session, cut and pasted, and voila ... more better version. Don't know if that's legal
Just visiting.
1923 Gibson A jr Paddlehead mandolin
Newish Muddy M-4 Mandolin
New Deering Goodtime Special open back 17 Fret Tenor Banjo
From the pick of Bobby Clark:
22nd St. Rag
Fast Forward
Get that wrist a-movin'...
This thread has definitely become my go-to thread on the Cafe. And a big bravo to all of you who regularly visit here to offer up new songs for the rest of us to hear.
This morning I came online after a week on the road, and to be greeted by 6 or 8 new tunes I'd never even heard of. Immediately went to the itunes store to give a listen. And immediately got hooked by Kid on the Mountain. There's a pipes version by someone named Piob More that absolutely blew my socks off. I just love tunes that use some version of a syncopated modal drone. Gotta learn that one.
Explore some of my published music here.
—Jim
Sierra F5 #30 (2005)
Altman 2-point (2007)
Portuguese fado cittern (1965)
I think I first heard Kid on the Mounain from a Bothy Band record, Kevin Burke on the fiddle. The version in the Fiddler's Fakebook is the one I heard, and its the one I learned. I don't know how Mel Bay's or others differ, but I don't suspect its much. And, I have been playing the tune for a while, so I don't doubt I have "evolved" the tune a bit over these many years.
The tune captures for me what is great about an Irish Session. The five parts of the tune, like separate but thematically complimentary tunes, following on each other without break, continuing the energy of the last one, the energy and drive of the thing, and then the endless quality of it, that tune will never end, but you never want it to, and then holding the last note, last time through, like we all collapse from exhaustion, or the sudden slow to a stop at the end of a wooden roller coaster ride, or the way you drink the last bit of beer in your glass.
I don't know where the name of the tune comes from, but I can just see that baby mountain goat up there prancing around unpredictably, under the sway of the sheer joy of being alive.
If you can capture all of that in the way you play it - I don't care which version you use.
Here's another great site for learning tunes by ear that I just found today -> http://www.stringband.mossyroof.com/
The Canote Brothers of Seattle teach an OTM Stringband class three times a year for 8 weeks per session. A student started a website that has mp3s of the tunes they teach in class. Note there is not a mandolin on the mp3s, at least the couple I listened to, but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt a mando version of the tune from the fiddling part.
Old Time Mandolin Music -> http://www.oldtimemandolinmusic.com
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