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    I'm learning a nice version of Red Wing in G from Tony Williamson's cd My Rocky River Home. He puts in a lot of interesting double stops. Also working on Big Sandy River in A. Good sounding tune and not too hard to play.

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    One of, if not my most, favorite tunes (it's newly written, but definitely old-time, IMO) is "Fred Digs Up A Hornet's Nest," written by our own Fred Keller. You can hear it in the MP3 section. There's tab floating around here somewhere, too. Just a great tune! I never tire of playing it (and I got to play it WITH Fred, himself!).

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    MikeB:

    If you find the tab for "Fred Digs Up A Hornet's Nest" can I get a copy of it? What a great tune!
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    I learned The Fun's All Over thanks to Jim Richter too. That's a great tune and Climbing the Walls should be required listening for any Compton fan.
    Old Ebeneezer Scrooge is one of my favorite Monroe tunes. That fourth part really gives the pinky a workout!
    Yeah, The Fun's All Over is...well...fun because there's so much room to interpret and kind of go crazy.

    I cheat on the 4th part of Old Ebennezer Scrooge and have worked out a pattern using open strings instead of the 7th fret pinky workout. I can't get it smooth enough and sound like I'm falling down, plus I like the way it sounds on the open strings...noisesome in a pleasant kind of way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fred Keller View Post
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    IIRC, Waiting For the Federals is also known as the Seneca Square Dance.
    Yes yes, thank you. I love that tune.


    Just like Western Country is also Sally in the Garden, is also Susananna Gal. Or at least they are the same tune when I play them.
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    Paddy on the Turnpike
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    My latest is "Whiskey Before Breakfast" about to start on Cherokee Shuffle. Just a newbie working through the "Fakebook".
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    Well yesterday and today it has been another great Norman Blake tune called "Callahan"
    Love it!
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    My newest fiddle tune project is Sedi Donka, which is a Bulgarian tune. I think it was Jamie Stanek who had posted the link to it, and I printed it out. Has the strangest tempo which I am still trying to solve:
    SQQ.SQQ.QQSQQ
    This reminds me of the one Thile and Marshall perform on their last record.

    Edit: Whoops! I just perfromed a search, and found that JGARBER had posted that music.
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    Callahan.....another great tune. I've never found anyone else to pick that one with. But I still play it all the time.

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    Soppin The Gravy (Little Betty Brown), in D chord. Deceptively simple, as all the good ones are. Allows for nice note selection, like a well-placed B note here and there.

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    A G tune that's been making the rounds lately in old-time jam circles here is "Knock Around the Kitchen Until the Cook Comes Home." It has an ABAC pattern; the B part is a variation of the A part but an octave lower, and the C part is short and very crooked. It can be heard on the Foghorn Stringband's CD "Boombox Squaredance."

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    Two tunes that have me playing them over & over until I get them right: Smokey Mountain Schottische from Skip Gorman's Monroesque CD and Norman Blake's Spinning Wheel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sgarrity View Post
    Callahan.....another great tune. I've never found anyone else to pick that one with. But I still play it all the time.
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    Yep! I really like that one. It might just be me but doesn't that first part remind you of Grey Eagle just a little bit?
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    Cousin Sally Brown, taught to me on the guitar by Scott Nygaard & Bob Holt's version of Acorn Hill Breakdown.

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    Been working on some variations of "The New Five Cents". That's a great traditional old time fiddle tune. I really like it.
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    Ricky Skagg's tune "Monroe Dancin' " of his 'Brand New Strings' CD. Of course it's a vehicle for Ricky's Mandolin playing,but it's mainly fiddle & a terrific tune. Another 2 that ARE fiddle tunes,are one of my favourite Monroe tunes, "Big Sandy River" & another 'classic' by Jim & Jesse, "Dixie Hoedown". I've been playing both on Banjo for ever it seems, & as they are amongst my favourite tunes,it's only natural that i play them on Mandolin as well,
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    Working on Dill Pickle Rag from the fiddlers fakebook. Lays out well for the mandolin, and sort of fun.

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    Been working on some variations of "The New Five Cents". That's a great traditional old time fiddle tune. I really like it.
    I use to have a cool version of that tune that James Bryan did on fiddle. Found it online somewhere, but can't seem to locate it there or on my computer.

    It is a cool tune.
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    Tunes in Em...
    Pelican Reel
    Unfortunate Rake
    Ingonish Jig

    And for Hallowe'en ...Peek-A-Boo Waltz
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    Having fun with "Huckleberry Hornpipe"

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    Town & Country Fiddler, using Bush's version as a guide.

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    I have just started getting into "Waltz for Bill Monroe", a beauty from Butch Baldassari.

    The tune as some nice dramatic moments, and if I slow down and delay the resolution, it can really get to you.
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    Alright ... my new "old" ones now:

    Oklahoma Twister
    Twinkle Twinkle
    John Brown's March
    Oklahoma Redbird (is the latest one I'm working on) Great Tune!
    Got the first 3 up to tempo pretty good ... I'll get there on the last one before long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by woodwizard View Post
    Oklahoma Twister
    Isn't the second solo a real nutter where you do the run to the seventh fret, all on the E string....

    My present fun-one is Parrot/Stiernberg's version of "Nova Scotia", with some lovely first-position antics. Another one from the MP3 section of the Cafe, which induced me to purchase the CD. Great stuff.

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