Over the Waterfall on fiddle, after working it out on mando. This one just seems to fall under my fingers and was easy to learn, unlike most other tunes.
Over the Waterfall on fiddle, after working it out on mando. This one just seems to fall under my fingers and was easy to learn, unlike most other tunes.
When I try to learn a tune on fiddle that I know on mandolin, I have to keep bringing the fiddle down to my lap and picking it, to remind me how it goes. Something about raising it under my chin that seems to empty my brain.
Spotted Pony
Falls of Richmond
Just started last March and love playing Pritchett's Hornpipe
Booth Shot Lincoln. Just finished "Manhunt." Books ok--not really great IMHO. But the tune cooks!
Lost on the trails of The Deep North
Cowboy's Dream. It has a wonderful melody. Had an Old-time jam with my OT pickin' buddies this weekend. The video is a little dark but here's us playing Cowboy's Dream. Fun tune to play.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
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The Maidens of Galway on box
Watched the movie "Everything is Illuminated" again--this time with more intention of paying attention to the music which is excellent. I arranged the main motif--a nice waltz--on box. Also learned Oriental(?) Hora on PA...having been inspired by klezmer stuff lately
Came across Drunken Hiccups on the Lindley/Kaiser compilation this afternoon, and if I can get myself to pick my fiddle up I'm inspired to learn this one next. But I'm apt to learn it on box first!
I just learned Booth Shot Lincoln. That is a great tune.
Reels; Robertsons, de Mattewa, San Antonio, got a better handle on Yellow Barber, love Little Sadie, and especially Home With the Girls in the Morning and Maggie in the Woods. I always come home from Winfield sleep-deprived, sore fingered and with a pile of new tunes to work on. Thanks to the Carp Camp crowd for allowing me to hang out on the fringes.
Mike Snyder
Red Bird
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
Durang's Hornpipe, Green Willis and Westphalia Waltz
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
The Frieze Britches (fiddle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzf6ILjdyPAYzf6ILjdyPA
Fiddle - Alex and Maureen Two Step
Fiddle - Yvette Carriere Waltz
Mando - Home with the Girls in the Morning
Mando - Daria Waltz
Been on a Kenny Baker kick- learned "Hollow Poplar" and "Make a Little Boat." Met a fiddler who jammed with Kenny back in the late '80s. Besides being a wonderful guy who would jam with anyone, he told me Kenny wrote the majority of his original tunes while riding on his tractor. I really like that story, even if it may be apocryphal.
Best,
Max
I laid the tracks, never rode the train.
I'm going to learn the Swedish fiddle tune, "Josephine Waltz."
f-d
¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
"Billy Wilson" and "Possum Under the Gum Stump" have just been added to our contra dance repertoire. Plus "The Year of Jubilo". On my own, started playing "The Forgotten Chateau". Almost up to speed. Not sure where that last tune's from.
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—Jim
Sierra F5 #30 (2005)
Altman 2-point (2007)
Portuguese fado cittern (1965)
Started learning this one this morning... Winder Slide
For some reason, Big Sciota is on the list along with The Dead March and Devil Ate the Groundhog.
Last night someone asked me if I knew a tune called "Wild Ginger." It sounded familiar and there was some muscle memory in the old fingers, so I figured I must have known it at one time.
Eventually I realized that it was part of a medley of David Cahn tunes I'd recorded with the Rodney Miller Band a few decades back on the Greasy Coat CD.
Haven't played any of those tunes since the band last played at Pinewoods in the early '90s, so my new fiddle tune set is three melodies I used to know and now need to relearn: "Liza Rose, Stepping on Worms, Wild Ginger." Good tunes, all. Glad to have my memory jogged.
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Well after a recent thread mentioning hammered dulcimers, and another one talking O'Carolan, I was compelled to get to playing mine again today and learning the Frieze Britches hence. It's one of those pieces that lies eminently on HD.
I'm working on two new tunes . . . Richard Forest's "Reel de quatre patates" and a march by Thomas Pomerleau.
Indian Ate A Woodchuck / Rhys Jones version
Going Across The Sea / Ill-Mo Boys version
Currently I have a thing for Kitchen Girl. Serious fun, she is.
Black Mountain Aire
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Dubuque is a pretty cool (D) tune. Here's me and my pickin buddies attemping to play it.
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
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2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
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