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.
Greg
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.
Greg
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!).
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!
Steve B.
Gibson F-9
Epiphone MM30 (the beater)
Trinity College OM
Yeah, The Fun's All Over is...well...fun because there's so much room to interpret and kind of go crazy.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!
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.
There are three kinds of people: those of us that are good at math and those that are not.
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Paddy on the Turnpike
Done Gone
Billy in the Lowground
Monroe's Hornpipe
Kentucky Mandolin
Mike Crater
Gibson F9
My latest is "Whiskey Before Breakfast" about to start on Cherokee Shuffle. Just a newbie working through the "Fakebook".
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Several mandolins of varying quality-any one of which deserves a better player than I am.......
Well yesterday and today it has been another great Norman Blake tune called "Callahan"
Love 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
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:
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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.
Shaun Garrity
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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.
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."
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.
OTW
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
Cousin Sally Brown, taught to me on the guitar by Scott Nygaard & Bob Holt's version of Acorn Hill Breakdown.
Been working on some variations of "The New Five Cents". That's a great traditional old time fiddle tune. I really like 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
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,
Saska
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
Working on Dill Pickle Rag from the fiddlers fakebook. Lays out well for the mandolin, and sort of fun.
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.Been working on some variations of "The New Five Cents". That's a great traditional old time fiddle tune. I really like it.
It is a cool tune.
David Mehaffey
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...I wonder how the old folks are at home...
Tunes in Em...
Pelican Reel
Unfortunate Rake
Ingonish Jig
And for Hallowe'en ...Peek-A-Boo Waltz
…“ Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then but the strings remain forever ”… June Masters Bacher
Having fun with "Huckleberry Hornpipe"
Town & Country Fiddler, using Bush's version as a guide.
Not for the faint-hearted.
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.
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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I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
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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