What's your new fiddle tune?

[Tobin]

I've been on a Jay Ungar fiddle tune kick lately. The latest is Haymaker's Hoedown. You can hear the original here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKuKF27CB3o

It's a fairly simple tune to play on mandolin, though the chord changes can be a bit tricky in the last 4 measures of the B part. Still, it's a fun tune that really comes alive with double-stops on open strings (as most tunes in D tend to do).

In case you're wondering, here are the chords:

A Part: D | D | D | Bm | D | D | G | D

B Part: G | G | D | A | Bm-A | G-D | Em-A | D

[Charles E.]

Pikes Peak and Valley Forge, I should have them playable for our weekly session tomorrow.

[Jim Garber]

Pikes Peak and Valley Forge, I should have them playable for our weekly session tomorrow.

I have been on a kick to go back to tunes I learned decades ago but no longer play. Those are two good ones. Thanks, Charley!

I also have trying to get people to play tunes in C. Pikes Peak is in C right?

[Charles E.]

Hey Jim, yes Pikes Peak is in C. Also on the list is Katydid, first part in C, second part in Am.

[Jim Garber]

Hey Jim, yes Pikes Peak is in C. Also on the list is Katydid, first part in C, second part in Am.

Yes, indeedy! Another oldy but goody!

[fatt-dad]

in the finishing touches of, "Lindsay Road" by Harvey Reid. My duet buddy knew it and we'll perform it in two weeks. Can't find the video and don't really have sheet music. It's a fun three part tune in E, so (don't tell anybody), I'm using a capo!

f-d

[terzinator]

A fiddle pal of mine keeps trying to launch Eighth of January, and I've never taken the time to figure it out properly. So tonight, I did.

It's an easy one, with a recognizable melody. (Battle of New Orleans.)

Here's a bunch of overachievers playing it:

[Pick&Grin]

Here's a bunch of overachievers playing it:

Great stuff, terzinator. Thanks for this: the future's looking bright! :O)

[woodwizard]

Tunes, tunes can't learn enough of them Here's a couple on my 1918 A4 I learned today
"Constitution Hornpipe" and a Lyman Enloe tune "Crazy Horse" (work in progress)

[woodwizard]

I've been on a Jay Ungar fiddle tune kick lately. The latest is Haymaker's Hoedown. You can hear the original here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKuKF27CB3o


In case you're wondering, here are the chords:

A Part: D | D | D | Bm | D | D | G | D

B Part: G | G | D | A | Bm-A | G-D | Em-A | D

You gotta love Jay Unger! Cool tune ... the chords in the (A) part and the way he does it really sounds similar to Cherokee Shuffel to me

[woodwizard]

Leather Britches revisted OT
Leather Britches on my A4

[terzinator]

Durang's Hornpipe.

[Mike Snyder]

Molly put the Kettle On
Jenny Ran Away in the Mud in the Middle of the Night
Duck River

[onassis]

Durang's Hornpipe.

Been trying to learn Adam Steffey's version. Feels like it's taken me a month to get the first ten seconds at half speed.

[AlanN]

Back to Mississippi Sawyer, including the Jethro way.

[woodwizard]

My 63rd time around the sun today Life is good .... Practicing on Norman Blake tunes tonight to finish off a great day.
Here's "Valley Head"

[Pick&Grin]

My 63rd time around the sun today Life is good .... Practicing on Norman Blake tunes tonight to finish off a great day.
Here's "Valley Head"

Great stuff, woodwizard, and a very happy birthday! I'm going to have to start working on that one.
Which of your mandolins are you playing there?

[woodwizard]

Great stuff, woodwizard, and a very happy birthday! I'm going to have to start working on that one.
Which of your mandolins are you playing there?

Thanks Pick&Grin! I was using my Goldrush on that one. Still on a Norman Blake tune picking spree Here is one more on my A4... Nancy's Hornpipe ... Norman Blake tunes are so cool!

[terzinator]

Durang's Hornpipe.

Been trying to learn Adam Steffey's version. Feels like it's taken me a month to get the first ten seconds at half speed.

Whenever I want to feel inferior, I try to learn Steffey's version of anything.

But I found a Joe Carr "School of Mandolin" version of Durang's Hornpipe that's pretty straightforward.

[chuck3]

working on Grey Eagle - obviously I will never play it like Jesse Cobb - but I would like to play it one way or another.

http://www.mandolincafe.net/mp3/jessecobb.mp3

lots of great suggestions above - will check them out.

[doc holiday]

Love that version of 'Grey Eagle'. I've been enjoying playing 'Old Grimes'

[Mike Black]

I've been working on some Bb tunes. Specifically President Grant's Harnpipe.

[Don Grieser]

Those Bb tunes can hurt your hand. Be careful!

[terzinator]

I've been working on some Bb tunes.

How about Kentucky Mandolin?

Well, it's kinda Gm, but that's Bb, ain't it?

[chuck3]

A fiddle pal of mine keeps trying to launch Eighth of January, and I've never taken the time to figure it out properly. So tonight, I did.

It's an easy one, with a recognizable melody. (Battle of New Orleans.)

Here's a bunch of overachievers playing it:

Ha - that is awesome. All four of those kids are great.