What's your new fiddle tune?

[mandolirius]

Thanks for that, Paul! Yet another version. Come to think of it, I don't know that I've ever heard two versions of GBB that ARE the same.

[woodwizard]

Somone played that last weekend and I could not catch it. Can you put up one of your wonderful videos, Mike? I'm going to owe you bigtime for all these tunes. It's not a tough one, I know, but I just could not get on it, then it was over.[/QUOTE]

You bet Mike and thanks for the compliment ... here's an attempt at it for ya. A lot of fiddlers play it in (A) but the fiddler's in my OT band play it in (G) so I learned it that way. Keep Pickin'!

[woodwizard]

Rhys Jones did a version of Blackberry Blossom that's a bit different (based on KY fiddler Dick Burnett's version), but related to Snake Chapman's version of GBB. You can hear a sample of Rhys' playing of BB at the Vigortone Records website (owned/operated by ILL-MO Boys' and former Volo Bogtrotter guitarist Jim Nelson) -> http://www.vigortonerecords.com/samp...rryBlossom.mp3

I tabbed out Rhys' version for the mando and put it up on my website http://www.oldtimemandolinmusic.com Click on the lessons link and then click on the archive link on the lessons page. Scroll down until you see Blackberry Blossom. You can see and/or download the tab from that page.

Have fun! It's a good tune and that version will throw off all your bluegrass pickin' buddies.

Great version Paul. Thanks for the links! We play it very simular but use Gm & F in there alot.

[woodwizard]

Waynesboro ... great OT tune. Here is our version.

[woodwizard]

Here's one I was playing around with today "Elzic's Farewell" Sort of a little Norman Blake-ish.

[woodwizard]

"Ways of the World" ... here's a make shift recording ... doing it at an OT jam ... 2 fiddles, guitar, upright and me on mandolin. Fun tune!

[woodwizard]

Hollow Poplar and Pig Ankle Rag
... Looks like I'm the only one learning new fiddle tunes here lately?

[Mike Snyder]

Can't let that happen! Campbells Farewell to Redcastle, Little Rabbit, Three Thin Dimes, Have You Ever Seen the Devil, Uncle Joe?
Actually, a couple of those aren't too new, they just sound that way.

[fatt-dad]

"Sadie at the Back Door" is the new fiddle tune that I'm playing. Mostly new to the jam circle I play in, I guess. . . It's a contemporary tune that some folks made up about their cat that goes out the front door and in the back door.

Here's some dudes playing it (no that's not me).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IqyPOlqsxc

f-d

[Caleb]

f-d, how does that pumpkin you made hold up at the jams?

On topic: I've been playing Camptown Races. Not really a fiddle tune, but an old one and a good one.

[Gary S]

Here is my contribution to this great thread. I have learned some great tunes and revised some dusty ones from your posts. This is one comes from the repertoire of Snake Chapman the great Kentucky fiddler. It's called "Big Black Cat". It reminds me a bit of some Monroe modal fiddle tunes who of course was also from Kentucky.Has anyone else learned other Snake Chapman tunes? I am not sure how to inbed the visual youtube link but ill give it a try...Gary
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=.../0/PzbdslKxETo

[fatt-dad]

I liked the "Black Cat." Well played too!

f-d

p.s., my pumpkin "IV Kit," which I really didn't make, but did finish, plays pretty well! Dave Cohen just completed a setup and I like it! Regarding old-time jams, it doesn't have the horsepower of my Flatiron, but is well suited for my front porch and knocking around. It's certainly going to the beach this summer!

[Mandomax]

Kissimmee Kid- man, I love how it goes to Bb!

[woodwizard]

"Lady of the Lake" and I might add it's nothing like the Lady of the Lake some have posted versions of here or like the one at mandozine.com. Learned it from a couple of OT fiddlers who learned it from Bruce Molsky. Pretty cool tune!

[AlanN]

Kissimmee Kid- man, I love how it goes to Bb!

If this is the Vassar tune, with the famous take on the first OAITW record, I think the off chord is C major.

Sry, got this corn-fused with Midnight Moonlight. Kissimmee Kid is in A Major.

A Major for 2 bars
F#m for 2 bars
Bm 1 bar
D/E
A Major

G 2 bars
F# 2 bars
B 2 bars
E/F

back to top

something like that.

[mandolirius]

Here is my contribution to this great thread. I have learned some great tunes and revised some dusty ones from your posts. This is one comes from the repertoire of Snake Chapman the great Kentucky fiddler. It's called "Big Black Cat". It reminds me a bit of some Monroe modal fiddle tunes who of course was also from Kentucky.Has anyone else learned other Snake Chapman tunes? I am not sure how to inbed the visual youtube link but ill give it a try...Gary
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=.../0/PzbdslKxETo

Nice job, Gary. I play that one too, plus a whole bunch of more Snake Chapman tunes. Big Black Cat is one of my faves.

[Mandomax]

AlanN- I hear it as Bb and my Fiddler's Fakebook notes it out as Bb as well. I play the backup to the B part as follows: Bb---|Bb---|Gb---|Gb---|B---|B---|E---|F---|F#m---|F#m---|F#m---|F#m---|Bm---|E---|A---|A---||

Maybe you are hearing it as Gm? Everything else you listed is the enharmonic equivalent of how I pick it. Enough with my pickin nits.
Such a great tune, and Vassar lays waste to it. Got to see Ronnie McCoury and Jason Carter pick this one- mighty fine- Jason's double stops on that B part were smooooth

[fatt-dad]

"Lady of the Lake" and I might add it's nothing like the Lady of the Lake some have posted versions of here or like the one at mandozine.com. Learned it from a couple of OT fiddlers who learned it from Bruce Molsky. Pretty cool tune!

Go ahead, give us a youtube of you playing "Lady of the Lake." I'd like to hear it!

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[AlanN]

Interesting.

Darol Anger hisownself noted out Dawg's break in the old book David Grisman Recorded Bluegrass Mandolin solos, that very take. In A.

[Mandomax]

Oh, it is definitely in A, but it modulates briefly to Bb when Vassar plays that Bb arpeggio over the changes. Overall tonality is A, but Part II is in Bb. did that make it clear as mud?
at about :22 and 1:25 of this video, you can hear where Jason goes to Bb.

Maybe that helps?

[AlanN]

Yup, just listened. Sounds like Bb to me. They changed it, tune was written with a G to F# to B to E to F. Them boys....

Btw, that Loar cuts like a knife.

[woodwizard]

Go ahead, give us a youtube of you playing "Lady of the Lake." I'd like to hear it!
f-d

You bet ... I will do that but sense I've only been working on it today and it's still a little difficult for me to play it up to the fast pase my fiddlin buddies do it ... let me fine tune it a little before I do that. Maybe this weekend. Here's a little sample of us playing it up to speed in a living room jam with my buddies the other day. Not the greatest audio but you will get an idea of the tune. I learned it from these guys. I'm almost there. It's a cool tune. "Lady of the Lake"

[woodwizard]

What the heck... I don't know it very well yet but here ya go fat-dad. Just now did the vid and up loaded. "Lady of the Lake" You don't hear this version very much. Hopefully I will get better at it.

[woodwizard]

That was hard to insert the vid. Guess I was doing it wrong.

[woodwizard]

[QUOTE=woodwizard;906711]What the heck... I don't know it very well yet but here ya go fat-dad. Just now did the vid and up loaded. "Lady of the Lake" You don't hear this version very much. Hopefully I will get better at it
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Well ... I'm playing that one a little different now. ... didn't have it quite right on the A part. Sure is fun working thru this stuff.