What's your new fiddle tune?

[Jim Nollman]

Oh Henry.

[Jim Garber]

Oh Henry.

Yes, Jim... you have excellent taste.

I have been slaving over Oklahoma Redbird in Bb recently. Exceptionally fun on fiddle as well as mandolin.

[Jim Nollman]

I learned Oklahoma red bird in C. Great tune.

[Cary Fagan]

Jimmy Shanks, a nice, easy tune. On the new Pomeroy.

[Simon DS]

Wooden Whale is my favourite tune at the moment.
Still working on it...


https://youtu.be/jNwhm68mnD4

[George Henry]

My wife and I specialize in old fiddle tunes with her on fiddle and me on guitar/mandolin/clawhammer banjo. I read music and mine the Portland books for all they're worth. I found some interesting tune books at the Celtic Interpretive Centre in Judique, Cape Breton Island, NS. An interesting tune we learned was Ways of the World. A favorite new OT tune was Elzics Farewell.

[Jim Garber]

On my obsessive playing list lately:

From Nile Wilson, Missouri fiddler: Oak Ridge Stomp, Old Reunion, Tune in C
From Bert Payne, Kansas Fiddler (learned from video of Tricia Spencer and Howard Rains): Kash Kersey

[fatt-dad]

I'm focused on Lindsey Road (Harvey Reid). I've played this in a duet for several years using my mandolin. Now, it's coming out of my octave mandolin. (Actually, I'm having fun re-tooling music on my OM! Fingering's not quite the same!

All fun though!

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[tmsweeney]

Bobby Casey's Hornpipe on the Macica F5 and the Weber Black Ice Octave

[yankees1]

Off to California

[Bill Cameron]

Lonesome Fiddle Blues. Should have started it twenty years ago because that’s how long it will take me to get up to speed, by which time I won’t be able to play half that fast if at all.

Fortunately there’s a couple of guys doing a nice slow mando w guitar version on Utube.

I’m a firm believer that music is not a competition, but I can’t even watch Vassar playing it while I’m trying to get there. What he does with it is literally impossible.

There is a cool vid of Sam Bush and ten-year-old Sierra Hull swapping it off, which is pretty inspiring. Just cause they have so much fun I think.

[stringalong]

My new fiddle tune is Cora Dye. I found the notation from Gary Harrison -- Fiddle -- Indian Creek Delta Boys. Another good one is Baby Ben (James Bryan, fiddle) Both of these tunes are fairly complex to hear, so I need the notation to remember them.

[tmsweeney]

Here's Cattle in the Cane on the Octave, Art Dudley learnt me up on this one before he passed away last year.

[Simon DS]

Here’s my newest tune, a favourite. I really like the rhythm to this one and the C major chord at the beginning of the B part.

[stringalong]

I see you capoed up to the fifth fret. What key do you finger this in? It's a beautiful tune and I would love to learn it. The link says, "with tab," but I don't see a tab.

[Mike Buesseler]

I see you capoed up to the fifth fret. What key do you finger this in? It's a beautiful tune and I would love to learn it. The link says, "with tab," but I don't see a tab.

Stringalong, if you open Simon’s video in YouTube, then click the text right below the video, all the information you want is there. I also like this one, and especially that C chord (“the major lift”) in the B part.

[Mike Buesseler]

Here’s some tab I found...

http://www.mandolintab.net/tabs.php?...0Ship&id=01388

[stringalong]

Thanks! I'll check out this tab. It's also on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UOW...nnel=JohnKelly without a capo. It's in Am here.

[Simon DS]

Thanks! I'll check out this tab. It's also on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UOW...nnel=JohnKelly without a capo. It's in Am here.

Ha, ha, actually there’s a bit of a discussion at John’s birthday thread here. https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...954&do=discuss
He plays it the right way in Am, but not with Ye Olde English rhythm.
-a rhythm once loved never forgotten
-although John Spiers and Jon Boden play it in jig rhythm.
-although they play it in Dm

Note: please don’t visit the above thread without wishing John a happy birthday. Thank you.

[Simon DS]

Here’s some tab I found...

http://www.mandolintab.net/tabs.php?...0Ship&id=01388

There are two ships involved. This is the happy one.

The Minor Rigged Ship is similar in some ways, it’s a ship, but it’s quite different.
https://thesession.org/tunes/18960

[Cary Fagan]

"Going to the Wedding to Get a Piece of Cake"

[MarkusSpiel]

"Going to the Wedding to Get a Piece of Cake"

I like that name

[JeffD]

I often tend to work on tunes in groups. Presently playing Texas (a.k.a. Newcastle), Roscoe, and Georgia (a.k.a. Ain't No Hell in Georgia). Also dusting off a slow oooky version of Hog Eyed Man (a.k.a. Sally in the Garden).

[Richard G]

Waiting for the Federals

[fatt-dad]

Now I'm retooling all my fiddle tunes to the octave mandolin. Pinky struggles! Position struggles! Tempo struggles!

Having a blast!

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