What's your new fiddle tune?

[Kirk Pickering]

Campbell's Farewell To Red Gap (from Kenny Hall)

Black Hawthorne (Norman Blake)

[mandozilla]

Not a fiddle tune per se but right now I'm learning "Lonesome Moonlight Waltz" ala Big Mon...I like it and it's easy to play plus, I know I can irritate all the folks at some of the BG jams I attend who think only hyperspeed 2/4 time is BG music HaHaHa

[AlanN]

LMW was a fave of Butch's. I heard him (and picked it with him) play it many times. He did something a bit different with it, too. Where it goes to F major after the 2 bars of Dm, he played the open A string - a small little touch that put his stamp on it.

The B part, rather un-Monroe-ish, was actually written in by Richard Greene (so I've been told).

Fun tune.

[GALVEZMANDO]

-The Blackest Crow: very simple to play but when do right it is very pretty

[Mike Snyder]

Hail Against the Barndoor, Comin' Thru the Canebreak, Rush In The Pepper. This is the only sensible thread I've ever started. Keep 'em comin', boys and girls.

[WELSrev]

My Little Home in West Virginia

The Lament for the Death of the Reverend Archie Beaton

Soldiers Joy ( D ) / Soldiers Sorrow ( B minor ) with Glasgow Reel

Jerusalem Ridge coupled with Elzic’s Farewell

[ntbols]

New Camptown Races in the closed position.

[oldtimestrings]

Just recently learned "Old French." It's a good one. There's not much room for embellishing the melody, but it's a good workout in arpeggios.

[woodwizard]

Uncle Hermans Hornpipe. Great tune! It kinda jumps around like Blackberry blossom but has three parts to it.

[JeffD]

Just recently learned "Old French." It's a good one. There's not much room for embellishing the melody, but it's a good workout in arpeggios.

Thats a great tune. Not much need for embellishment actually.

[doc holiday]

"Crockett's Honeymoon" I heard Scott Nygaard play it and then stumbled on a youtube version www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FGerT21T6Y with Matt Arcara and several of the Claridge's on fiddle.
A real nice melody. Lays out well on the mandolin but also sounds great in several octaves on the guitar. Anyone know of any more classic versions?

[AlanN]

Yes to Herman's..always think of Herman Munster on that one.

My new FT today: Night in Tunisia

[Eddie Sheehy]

Working out the kinks in a couple of Rags - Ragtime Annie and The Pig Knuckle Rag. Fun, lively tunes...

[TMitchell]

Cherokee Shuffle. After watching Spencer Strickland tear it up, how could I not give it a (very slow) go?

[mandozilla]

I'm working on Paddy On the Turnpike...the Monroe style version.

[Joe F]

Bound to Have a Little Fun has been making the rounds in the old-time jam circles here recently. Fun tune, in G. The B part has 12 bars instead of 8, making it a bit out of the ordinary.

[Mike Snyder]

Farewell to Longhollow and Sally Goodin, and I need to get to an old-time jam to re-inforce the learning of these tunes. It's impossible to lead these fiddle tunes off in a bluegrass jam, call out the chord changes, and not blow the picking when nobody knows and plays them. I know mando players that can teach tunes on the fly, but I'm just not in that league. With a little help, at a manageable speed, ok, but you get a banjo playing the wrong changes, no soap. I've got them onto St. Annes Reel, and some of them onto Cold Frosty Morning, but it's like pulling teeth. I miss Winfield.
Sorry for the whining.

[Charles E.]

I have been listening to Fiddlin Doc Roberts and as soon as I finish this response I plan to learn " take those lips away ". A great tune that he played on mandolin. After that , " Jackson Stomp " by Charlie McCoy.

[Gary S]

"Take those lips away" Great tune with Fiddlin Doc Roberts playing mandolin. Lately I have been playing Doc Robert's "Brickyard Joe"...Gary

[Taube Marks]

Like Clyde (some pages back) I have been listening to Skip Gorman (when is that man going to come to the UK?) and pairing Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mts. with Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine , and also am doing "Cowboy Waltz" which is a real sweet tune (you can find it in Kenny Hall's Music Book if you need the notation).


Taube

[woodwizard]

Smith's Reel and The Wise Maid are a couple nifty tunes I've just learned.

[woodwizard]

.... it's like pulling teeth. I miss Winfield.
Sorry for the whining.

I with you on that Mike

[Jim Nollman]

learning Morpeth Rant as a jig and then a reel. Maybe a waltz too.

A lot of fun for me, right now, is taking two tunes, both newly learned, Jamey Allen and Jubilo, and deconstructing each into 4 bar sectons, then randomly mixing up the sections so they become one tune. Just about every combination works fine. Once I master that, I may trying adding St Ann's Reel, which also fits like a glove with these other tunes.

[Stephanie Reiser]

I recently added St. Anne's Reel (the Canadian version) that I play on both mando and violin.
My newest fiddle tune is The Musical Priest.

[woodwizard]

Sugar In the Gourd ... A Great! fiddle tune... My newest. Anybody else pick it?