Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
Jim
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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
Has anyone ever come across a fiddle tune called "Flight to D.C."? (Yeah, try searching for it. Nearly impossible.)
a Dm tune, I believe.
Found this one vid, but wondering if anyone has seen others, or has notation.
Deeper into Missouri fiddle tunes. Brenda's Reel (pdf for transcription from Charlie's site) originally played by phenomenal lefty fiddler Cyril Stinnett and equally phenomenal Charlie Walden.
I have been working on this one on ITM-tuned banjo and mandolin. It is a bit more difficult for me on fiddle especially in the second part where you have to play in second or third position. Fun and a great dance tune.
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
Charlie actually teaches the tune I posted above.
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
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
Jim, you rock! Thanks!
After hearing it: It's got a bit of Lonesome Fiddle Blues about it, that's for sure.
Oh, here's a link that embeds the start time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2hQmq4ewOc&t=27m18s
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[QUOTE=Jim Nollman;
Rocky Pallet is a beautiful tune and I recommend it highly to anyone ready for a fingering challenge. The B part has taken some extra listening because it fluctuates into 3 different directions as it develops. Translating the lines from the usual fiddle to the unusual mandolin is a lot of fun because, really, how do you best translate an old time fiddles rolling pulse into single lines built on dry and woody notes? I'm not sure I'll ever be able to play it at dance speed.
Hey Jim, Here is me and some friends playing Rocky Pallet. Is this the same old-time tune version you were referring to?
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
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2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
After listening to both Grisman's and Skagg's versions, I had to learn Boston Boy. Super fun to play. Does anyone know what the deal is with the order of the A and B parts? I've heard it both ways.
Mike
Don't give up in despair. There is a free program out there called "Audacity" that will take about any format audio file and allow you to modify it in many ways including change tempo. Most songs can be taken down to about half tempo without loosing all sense of rhythm.
Look at:
http://www.audacityteam.org/
It works on windows, mac and linux.
Besides that it is a darn fine digital recording/editing studio.
Gary aka WikiGary
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Slocum Hollow, a Butch Baldassari number, starts out on the last half of the B part, then hits the regular AA/BB stride.
Only playing the last half of a B part before starting the regular AABB pattern would be more of a kickoff, in my mind. That's different than reversing the entire tune and playing BBAA.
Keep that skillet good and greasy all the time!
Been trying to learn Great Big Yam Potatoes. It's very simple but I really like it. Oddly I keep forgetting how the simplest part, the A part, goes. That's why I struggle to learn it.
The Birth of Kisses Jig.
Page 99 of The Caledonian Pocket Companion, Volume II
https://archive.org/details/caledonianpocket00stua
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
Bonaparte's Retreat.
Daphne. The B part is a killer.
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My latest fiddle tune infatuation is Coal Harbor Bend, after it was posted as the tune of the week over at banjohangout a few weeks ago. I cannot get it out of my head! Traditionally, folks seem to play it with an Em chord (vi) in the B part. But the version by Bigfoot uses a C major (IV), which really gives it a different sound. This is the version I've embraced. And of course, like all the tunes I fall in love with, it is crooked.
I've been working on it on the fiddle. I've seen at least one mandolin version of it on YouTube (mandolessons, as I recall), but it's the fiddle slurs and unisons that really give it "the sound". Bigfoot uses two fiddles which interact beautifully.
This is, for me, a "trance tune". I could listen to it 24/7 and just zone out. The album version is below, but a live version from Clifftop 2010 can be heard here.
Keep that skillet good and greasy all the time!
Thanks for the heads up on that tune Mr. Tobin. I was having fun playing along with the Big Foot recording you posted and decided to make a quickie recording playing on my Goldrush just now and here it is. Great tune that grows on you the more you play it.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Playing around with Freeman's Hornpipe tonight.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
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2015 Martin HD28-V
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Hi woodwizard, The mp3 link you sent gives me "gibberish." Thanks for trying -- I'd love to hear Freeman's Hornpipe. I searched YouTube and got Fisher's Hornpipe, many links for that one.
Recently worked out a Norman and Nancy Blake tune called Blind Dog, originally done on a fiddle and cello, now with two mando's.
Don't have a full version recorded yet, but here's a slower (and somewhat unpolished) version of what we do now.
Very cool -
I recently got hooked on "Devil Chased Me Around the Stump" from the Rising Fawn String Ensemble album, a lot of fun to play.
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