Valley Forge. I'm getting it!
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Valley Forge. I'm getting it!
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ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
long journey home
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.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
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.
—Jim
Sierra F5 #30 (2005)
Altman 2-point (2007)
Portuguese fado cittern (1965)
Here is a set of traditional reels in memory of my Father.
St Anne's, Soldier's Joy, Over the Waterfall on Weber Gallatin Octave
"Sleepy Eyed Joe" is really a happy tune to me. Here's my stab at another Norman Blake tune
https://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/sleepy-eyed-joe
Last edited by woodwizard; Feb-13-2014 at 12:44am.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Ashland Breakdown for me. Really like the sound of it. Not up anywhere near speed yet but really fun to work on.
Jacobson #24
Kentucky KM-620
Michael Kelly
Fender
Gold Tone Banjo
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.
I'm working on Red Prairie Dawn on mandolin and fiddle.
Eric
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.
Last edited by woodwizard; Feb-16-2014 at 2:41pm. Reason: better one
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
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
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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.
Off to California 2014-02-12.mp3
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.
Last edited by Denman John; Feb-16-2014 at 3:28pm.
... not all those who wander are lost ...
Long Cold Winter by Kenny Baker. It's bustin' my fingers!
Shaun Garrity
http://www.youtube.com/user/spgokc78
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Walking around Galax came across some good pickers doing SH in Bb. Not for the faint of heart.
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.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Alpenglow, from the fourth Waltz Book. What a great tune. Just beautiful.
Just learned Over the Waterfall on the guitar now trying to bring the mandolin up to speed.
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.
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.
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.
Practicing on this cool fiddle tune today entitled "Sarah Armstrongs Tune" ...
on my A4
https://soundcloud.com/mike-parks-7/...rmstrongs-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
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