What's your new fiddle tune?

[Jim Garber]

Miller's Reel in G via JP Fraley.

[woodwizard]

Been playing Miller's Reel in (A). Here's a fun one... Norman Blake's version of Sleepy Eyed Joe. I really like that melody. Ofcourse my OT band plays it a completely different way, no resembleness what's so ever.

[Jim Nollman]

Green Willis. In D. Great tune at a very fast clip. (118-120 bpm). Love the effect of damping the lower 6 strings while doing a sharp vamp that lets the E strings ring. The lead is played on tin whistle with fiddler playing a harmony.


Over the Ocean Waves. Also in D. A beginners square dance tune, learned by our band to play near the start of a dance to get beginners up and onto the floor. Played at a medium clip (114 bpm). I feel it needs a 20's jazz vamp rather than the usual square dance oompah, because vamping the standard major chords creates a one-dimensional sound that doesn't really support the fiddler's melody. so I've added some necessary major 7ths in the A part, and even a diminished chord for passing. The B part is way more challenging. I'm devising a one-beat per chord melody which makes use of the double stop 2400 into the fuller chord 2230 (variants of D and F#) that work so effectively in waltzes in D, like Ashokan Farewell and Planxty Fanny Powers. For a final touch, I've added a passage from G to G6 (4253), then quickly into A/ A7 for the turnaround. I do love this new G6 variant (anyway for me its new), although getting my pinky in place still plays havoc on my timing even at medium speed.

[Eddie Sheehy]

Eighth of January

[Mike Scott]

The very easy (but fun) "cluck old hen"

[onassis]

Eighth of January

+1

[Mike Black]

New Five Cents (3 parts in D)

Also called "Buffalo Nickel" in the Ozarks. From around 1913 when the new money came into circulation.

Learning from my mini-disc recorder, from classes with fiddle great James Bryan.

[raulb]

Eighth of January

Eddie, will you be calling that on Saturday? (that is if we are all not flooded out).

I'm not sure I know it, but I think I know the Battle of New Orleans.

[Eddie Sheehy]

It's the same tune Raul. I just might call it to be different...

[woodwizard]

The Blackest Crow (that I've been playing along with a Bruce Molsky youtube) and Barbra Allen.
A couple of slow but really pretty tunes. A lot of room for embellishments

[JeffD]

Needcase. What a great tune.

This is one I had years ago and played a lot, and recently had opportunity to dust it off and shine it up.

I couldn't find a mandolin video, but here is as good a version as any:

[JeffD]

Miller's Reel in G via JP Fraley.

That is a goodie.

[woodwizard]

"Needlecase" is a good one Jeff. I'm going to try to learn that one if I can find some versions of it to get started.
I've been playing ... "Goin' to Richmond" the last couple days that's off of Ricky & Kentucky Thunders instrumental CD.
It's a goodern!

[chordbanger]

Do a search for Shove the Pig's Foot.....there's a whole thread about that tune. It's one of my favorites. I recorded it and put it on my YouTube page. Not nearly as good as the Molsky version, but I'm tryin!

Thanks for the song. I learned it this morning on fiddle. Good one!!!!

[Jim Nollman]

Just took a listen to Shove the Pig's Foot. I'm always amazed at how I sometimes think i know a lot of tunes. when actually I've only scratched the surface of what's out there. Haven't heard anything I wanted to immediately sit down and learn, since JeffD made the case for Wild Rose of the Mountain. The Molsky version is not only a good one to learn from, but the whole CD demonstrates high production values. Very nice miking, guys.

[bones12]

For at least the next several days, it will be the 28th of January.

Doug in vermont

[Mike Black]

I've been learning and playing a cool tune called Little Sadie that I learned from Dave Firestine. The B part has a weird twist to it that almost makes it sound crooked, but it's not.

I've attached an MP3 of him playing it.

[Jim Nollman]

Shove the Pig's Foot. Gotta love that extra little rhythmic jiggle that makes the simple melody ten times more challenging. Also tried playing it together with Kitchen Girl.

[Mike Black]

Every time I play Shove that Pigs Foot Further in the Fire, it makes me wanna play Possum Up a Gum Stump

[Jim Nollman]

Looks like a good time to call in Kitchen Girl

[Joe F]

Some of the tunes in my "To Learn" folder are "New Five Cent Piece", "Five Miles From Town" (Skip Gorman's version; I already have Clyde Davenport's "5 Miles..." down pretty well), "Silver Lake" and "Indian Squaw" (Jake Krack).

My band played "Florida Blues" (Fiddlin' Arthur Smith) in public for the first time last week as a transition tune while our banjo player was retuning, and it was very well received by the audience. It's a fun tune, and it gives me a chance to use those weird G9 and A9 chords.

I've also been working on "Tanner's Rag", which Eric Thompson taught at the Bluff Country Gathering last year, but that one isn't quite ready for "prime time."

[Jim Nollman]

Burnt Potatoes and Garfields Hornpipe.

[gabe]

Cuffey, a great old fiddle tune................
gabe

[sgarrity]

I just learned Johnny Don't Get Drunk from some YouTube videos. What a cool tune!
Some friends of mine introduced me the the tune the other night and I had to learn it.

[sgarrity]

I've been playing Johnny Don't get Drunk the last few days so tonight I'm learning Needlecase. There are some benefits to being snowed in!