What's your new fiddle tune?

[Mark Wilson]

Good one tz. Are you transcribing?

MG that gil sounds nice

[woodwizard]

Worked up a little (G) tune medley and also working on Twinkle twinkle and a Kenny Baker tune A & E Reel (nothing perfect just practicing on a Sunday)

[tmsweeney]

You'll got me stuck on 8th of January, great old timey tune, workin it up on the octave

[Tobin]

I finally got around to transcribing Jay Ungar's tune Fiddler's Elbow, and I'm working up a mandola-mandolin duet variation. This tune had been haunting my dreams for quite some time. I like a happy fiddle tune as much as the next guy, but these dark gloomy tunes really get to me on an emotional level. It's a fairly easy tune, with a crooked "A" part. I'd post the notation/tab for it, but this is copyrighted.

Here's a great amateur version that does an excellent job of catching the mood of the tune:

[Mark Wilson]

A Place In The Heart by Bill Crahan.

I had bookmarked this for a rainy day. Worked with the Tab for a while but in the end just learned by ear listening to this version using Transcribe! software.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZoMN1tYuqw.

Maybe not a fiddle tune but wow what a beautiful piece of music! Made for a really enjoyable day on mandolin. Thanks for the link Mike.

[terzinator]

That is the Lovely and talented Courtney Hartman playing guitar in the above video

Sorry, I'm a dope. I grabbed the name of the second tune instead of the guitar player. And no way to edit! Sorry!

[Jack Roberts]

Prince Charles Jig from Ryan's Mammoth. There are fun string crossings.

[woodwizard]

made a vid ... I am liking this tune today Sorry in advance... I'm sure there are a lot of great pickers out there that can make this old A4 sound good.

[Joey Anchors]

I'm currently working on Lazy John. It's still way too rough playing but I really am enjoying the tune.

[terzinator]

I'm currently working on Lazy John. It's still way too rough playing but I really am enjoying the tune.

We do that, but it's got words, the one we do.

We always sing the words to Whiskey Before Breakfast, too.

And we sing Old Joe Clark, on a given day.

We sing too much, too much, some say.

[woodwizard]

Ok here's Little Dutch Girl today I recorded quick ... I especially like the way Mike Compton & Rafe Stefanini do it

[rubydubyr]

quite enjoyable woodwiz!

[Sandy Beckler]

I am enjoying "Swinging on a Gate" from Vance Henry ( http://home.hiwaay.net/~vehenry/index.htmvia ) via "Woodwizard" (Mike Parks)
thanks again Mike.

Sandy

[Sandy Beckler]

http://home.hiwaay.net/~vehenry/tab.htm

Sandy

[JeffD]

I have been learning "New Mexico Waltz". Its a beautiful tune by Jay Ungar, (Ashokan Farewell, Lovers Waltz, etc.), that I found in the Jay Ungar Molly Mason waltz book "Catskill Mountain Waltzes and Airs".

The tune has some magical moments.

[shins]

Recently been playing:
shove that pigs foot a little further into the fire
grasshopler sitting on a sweet potato vine
over the waterfall
josio
arkansas traveller
soldier's joy
red haired boy/jolly begger man
nixons farewell
fly around my pretty little miss

and so on

and so on...

play so many fiddle tunes.... on the fiddle too!

[fatt-dad]

I got an ear worm of, "Horgalåten." Began working it up Monday and making progress!

Lots of great tunes being worked on! I love playing, "Twinkle, Twinkle" and also, "Swinging on a Gate."

f-d

[terzinator]

Swinging on a Gate IS a great one.

Just got an email from a buddy with his list of tunes, so I have my hands full to learn those I don't know yet.

One on his list I still haven't gotten to is Leather Britches. Maybe I'll start with that.

[fatt-dad]

Another great G tune is, "Waynesboro."

f-d

[Bill McCall]

not really a fiddle tune, but Panhandle Rag has my attention

[Pick&Grin]

Having a great time with "New Five Cents." Got the tab from Tune of the Week at Mandozine, and have found DW Music Expedition video to be really helpful. Fun stuff!

[shins]

Walk along john to kansas

[fatt-dad]

shenandoah falls.

f-d

[Jim Garber]

I have been returning to the fiddle tunes from my sordid youth -- ones that I sort of forgot:

• Folding Down the Sheets
• Green Willis
• Lady of the Lake (three versions)
• Woodchopper's Reel
• Flowers of Edinburgh

[Sandy Beckler]

[QUOTE=Jim Garber;1372894]I have been returning to the fiddle tunes from my sordid youth -- ones that I sort of forgot:

Funny Jim, that seems to happen with each new tune I learn....get it down, on to the next one, and "Poof...the first one is gone...