I've decided to learn this tune today. What key is this usually played in at jams?
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I've decided to learn this tune today. What key is this usually played in at jams?
Thank you
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If it were an instrumental jam with a fiddle would there be a preference for a specific key?
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I decided to try it in D first. That's a good key for me on the mandolin in open position. Then I tried it in G in open position. Works well there too. I tried C in open position - that works too and fits within the C chord shape nicely. Next I tried closed position G (at the5th fret). Lots of possibilities for double stops there. And with closed position I can move that around to suit the singer if I'm in a jam where someone wants to sing it.
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Here is Del and Dawg in C. Usually at jams I have seen it in G.
I learned this double stop version in D from the Janet Davis book:
And it has been played in this key in jams I go to
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I always play it in G. Sounds good on guitar that way. No one seems to mind.
Another vote for D, it's in this key in the sheet music at Traditional Music co.uk., so who am I to play it in another key?Attachment 159589
My bowlback played an OK tremolo and even my electric tenor guitar and ukulele agreed on the key:
Nice version and fine playing, Manfred!
Most make voices seem to fit the key of C but if doing it as an instrumental do it anywhere you feel comfortable with....when its your turn at a jam just call out the song and the key that you like best and others will use their capos to get with you...
Willie
It is in a nice vocal range when placed in A. I sing/perform it in A, though I am a lower-voiced lead singer. G would be my second choice, and a good one.
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My wife plays guitar. She chose G as the key she would like to play it in so that's what we will do it in. I'm also playing it in C an D myself so that I will have a familiarity with it in those keys as well when I find myself in jams with other players. Thanks for the input.
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D at most sessions I've been to in Scotland , but usually no singing, so whatever suits fiddles.
I played with a singer for a few gigs who sang it in F.
Then we switched to D for the mandolin instrumental bit because I did it cross-picked.
It's your lucky day I guess. David Benedict posted this new arrangement of the tune of him playing in all keys just now and it's beautiful. You can contact him through his website for a copy of his arrangement and maybe a simpler one if he's got it
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/e...see-Waltz-quot
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Usually in D.
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Thanks for that. It's beautiful.
Every jam with a fiddler that I have played in plays it in D. When started by a banjo picker, G. I like D using A as a drone.
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I usually play it in D. I played with a fiddler who favored playing it in C. I worked it out, but it felt like a different tune.
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Like Hank, David's version is a little beyond my capabilities. I just wish some would post a tab version with some simple embellishments to make the beginner version a little more lively. Jazz style is not my style, but I do enjoy listening to David.
I started working it out in the key o D a couple of years ago; then I realized I had far too many songs in that key so I moved it to the key of F, with a lot of playing along the strings, rather than in fixed positions. I like to include it in a medley: Tennessee Waltz in F, Missouri Waltz in D, Kentucky Waltz in Eb, and occasionally return to Tennessee in the key of G, to cover the three standard modulations. It's really a song that's worth exploring in almost any key. Buell Neidlinger recorded it in A with Richard Greene on fiddle,
Les Paul and Mary Ford did it in D, Slim Whitman in Bb, and Redd Stewart in G.
We play it in C. Here's my all-time favorite version, which I do realize has no mandolin or fiddle parts...
I think Janet Davis's Ultimate Mandolin Songbook might be a good start on this gem of a song.
Hard to beat this mandolin version by Sierra Hull
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...223E&FORM=VIRE
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Or this one by Chris Thile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf9A5RF96kg
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