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    Quote Originally Posted by woodwizard View Post
    Spotted Pony - 1918 A4 If you haven't tried this one you should. Great OT tune
    Love this tune, but it's always given me fits. Great version, woodwizard. I might just have to try it again!

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    Well I'm on the Norman Blake road again. ... "The Ruins of Richmond" ... I have always loved this tune not to mention most of all Norman's instrumentals. ... (relearned) warning... it's kinda rough but I think you can feel a little bit of Norman there I hope.
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    Focusing, right now, on learning tunes in the key of F. This week it is:

    Batchelder's Reel
    Plus a truly great tune: Ross's Reel.
    Explore some of my published music here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Nollman View Post
    Plus a truly great tune: Ross's Reel.
    Its a really great tune. I have it as originally in E. I know some have transposed it to D, but I never heard of it in F.
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    Here is a set of traditional reels in memory of my Father.
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    "Sleepy Eyed Joe" is really a happy tune to me. Here's my stab at another Norman Blake tune

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    Ashland Breakdown for me. Really like the sound of it. Not up anywhere near speed yet but really fun to work on.
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    Re-visiting Blackberry Rag. JAG picked it in D chord on his Puritan record. I found an old tab in C chord done up by Warren Kennison. Great number.

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    I'm working on Red Prairie Dawn on mandolin and fiddle.
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    Re-visiting Blackberry Rag. JAG picked it in D chord on his Puritan record. I found an old tab in C chord done up by Warren Kennison. Great number.
    Learning that one today and pickin' in (C) as well. Really like the way that one flows. Easier to get the speed up with all the down up down up notes isn't it? I'm still slow & sloppy. The first version was not good(infact terrible) here's a little better version of Blackberry Rag.
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    One of our participants asked about playing Sailor's Hornpipe but I am finding that it is played in a variety of keys: D, G, C and the requestor (I think) said he plays it in A. Is there some consensus of what key most people play it. Most fiddle tunes have a std key or maybe (like Fisher's) two keys. This one is all over the place for some reason.
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    I just got Off to California under my fingers and in my head. I bought a Zoom H4N recorder last week and this is the first recording I did with it. The song was still in the "learning realm" and shows in the recording, but I wanted to play around with the recorder and get something down. Still have to read the instructions and play around with the settings.

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    I started on Cherokee Shuffle this morning and like the tune. I know that it's pretty much a standard, but I'm just getting around to it now.
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    Long Cold Winter by Kenny Baker. It's bustin' my fingers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    One of our participants asked about playing Sailor's Hornpipe but I am finding that it is played in a variety of keys: D, G, C and the requestor (I think) said he plays it in A. Is there some consensus of what key most people play it. Most fiddle tunes have a std key or maybe (like Fisher's) two keys. This one is all over the place for some reason.
    Jim, I learned it in D many years ago from a Jethro Burns book. I've heard it played in C,G,Bb and A, as well. I guess any key is fair game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    One of our participants asked about playing Sailor's Hornpipe but I am finding that it is played in a variety of keys: D, G, C and the requestor (I think) said he plays it in A. Is there some consensus of what key most people play it. Most fiddle tunes have a std key or maybe (like Fisher's) two keys. This one is all over the place for some reason.
    I've found that most around here play it in either (G) or (A) I think because the banjo plays it in G formation and capo's to (A)
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    Walking around Galax came across some good pickers doing SH in Bb. Not for the faint of heart.

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    I think the guy who asked me is learning it in A but I found an abc of it in Bb. I guess it is a good exercise to play it in all the keys. Could be an interesting medley of Sailor's Hornpipe. I bet each key presents its own challenges. Could be fun.
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    Alpenglow, from the fourth Waltz Book. What a great tune. Just beautiful.
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    Just learned Over the Waterfall on the guitar now trying to bring the mandolin up to speed.

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    Well, if you eat a can of spinach, any key can be nailed...lol.

    Not so much a fiddle tune, but I never stray from New Camptown Races very far. The Wakefield thread got me on it again, plus listening to Dave Peters on his Art In America. So many things you can do with that one - low, high, drone strings, Wake things, Monroe-isms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlanN View Post
    Walking around Galax came across some good pickers doing SH in Bb. Not for the faint of heart.
    When Bill Keith brought the tune (in A, as part of a medley) to the Bluegrass Boys Kenny Baker insisted that it be played in Bb. That's how I used to play it. It sits very nicely in Bb, especially the first part because it has nice phrase turns and pivot points on the d and a courses.

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    Yeah, Baker loved Bb. On his Farmyard Swing, there's a cut in that key (maybe the opening track) where Bobby O. plays some quirky lines. A guy who did an early morning radio show on WFDU in Teaneck, NJ opened the show with this, every morning. I taped that show over the years so I have it on multiple cassette tapes, made it easy to learn.

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    Practicing on this cool fiddle tune today entitled "Sarah Armstrongs Tune" ...
    on my A4

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