RichJ - Posted - 02/28/2022:  07:57:01

Well Maxie the kitten has selected Cricket on the Hearth for our next VFF fiddle tune. I'll have to say I'm not too familiar with this tune and will take a day or so for me to get under my fingers. In checking out the OTJ site where Groundhogpeggy and I select tunes for VFF I notice there's only guitar or guitar/banjo accompaniment for this tune so it may be hard to pick out the melody. There are plenty of others out there on Youtube, but I thought this one was a good place to start.

youtube.com/watch?v=RtxLUCBGIbA

 

VIDEO: Maxie picks "Cricket on the Hearth"
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groundhogpeggy - Posted - 02/28/2022:  09:26:41

Hurray for Maxie's pick for the month! Ok, Cricket on the hearth. It's too bad OTJ doesn't seem to have a fiddle version of this up on their jam site, but as Rich says, there are plenty of youtubes. The one he linked is a great version for those of us, including me...lol...who have never played this tune or heard it much. Thanks for including that for us, Rich. Also...this could be a really fun tune because it seems there are lots of folks out there in the youtube universe including some attempt at Cricket sounds in the...I forget now but I think it was in the B part. That whole idea appeals to me personally...lol...so I might go for trying to crank out some cricket chirps from my fiddle, if at all possible. Ok guys...it's gonna be a fun one!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 02/28/2022:  09:58:53

Just in case anybody wants to get into the sound effects on this Cricket tune...here's a violin sound effect video...crickets are at 0:31. I wish I woulda found this guy before I played Old Bell Cow and Flop-Eared Mule on my channel...lol.



youtu.be/Rfy28X9wdxg

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 02/28/2022 10:00:19

DougD - Posted - 02/28/2022:  11:51:34

The problem with trying to slow down a breakdown for students is that you end up with a lot of empty space and its tempting to fill it with extra notes or by altering the melody. Or maybe Cecil just knows a different version of this tune.
I'd suggest this version by Walt and Clare as a better model. If its too fast you can always slow it down. youtu.be/-bepDi1-fgM
There is also a good version on YouTube by Benton Flippen and an elegant one by Kenny Baker.

RichJ - Posted - 02/28/2022:  13:44:53

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Originally posted by DougD

The problem with trying to slow down a breakdown for students is that you end up with a lot of empty space and its tempting to fill it with extra notes or by altering the melody. Or maybe Cecil just knows a different version of this tune.

I'd suggest this version by Walt and Clare as a better model. If its too fast you can always slow it down. youtu.be/-bepDi1-fgM

There is also a good version on YouTube by Benton Flippen and an elegant one by Kenny Baker.

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Thanks Doug, I actually like that one better but thought it a bit on the fast and notey side to learn from. Cats picking tunes at random sometime create problem for a fiddler or two. lol  Can't wait to hear Peggy's version. I hear she's looking to put some cricket sound effects in her version

Edited by - RichJ on 02/28/2022 13:46:30

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 02/28/2022:  14:11:47

This is a real-life cat and the fiddle scenario...Maxie says we can do this! I'm never crazy about notey tunes...lol...I usually first try to figure out the whole point of the melodic contour, at least as it strikes me at that moment in time (always reserve the right to change my mind later), then wipe out a few of those notes that seem excess to me...lol...ok I know I'm being too bold in saying that, but hey, it's just me. Wipe out a few of them doggone notes, maybe try and get a few cricket sounds in there somewhere, and play that sucker my own way, you know, how Maxie would do it if he was allowed to mess with a fiddle on his own. So...not sure when I'll get enough time and mental composure to have a look at this one with a fiddle in my paws, but hopefully soon...then I'll see what kind of ways I can claw it up to make it my own...lol.

NCnotes - Posted - 02/28/2022:  15:19:30

Maxie is so beautiful! Also did a nice job of picking!

Here's first YT video I found of this tune? 

youtu.be/3NpQilSO2FU

Edited by - NCnotes on 02/28/2022 15:21:59

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 02/28/2022:  16:50:13

To me, Cricket on the Hearth, at least some variations of it, seem reminiscent of New Five Cent Piece. I think if you take out a few of the notes of COTH, you have something very similar to NFCP...minus the cricket chirps...should put coins dropping sounds on the other, maybe...lol.



I guess we should all find it interesting that the fascination with crickets bringing good luck comes from the old country, British Isles, and even older countries...Asian areas, etc. Well but anyway, then there is this...



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cric...he_Hearth



So...I still hope to start practicing very soon on this tune...for now...had to turn the news off...it's hugely disturbing in every possible way. I hope at least if we all play cricket on the hearth we can bring about some good luck contagious enough to drift around the world.



But for now...I'm gonna make us some tea and try to take in a little Andy Griffith and see if we can get lucky enough to relax a little bit. One of our little doggies loves Barney, by the way. She loves to watch TV...the other doggie can't seem to see it...but she watches and she perks up whenever Barney is on there...lol...or the Daisy cottage cheese commercial...she loves that for some reason. I was wondering if, since she's a rescue and we have no idea about much of her history...wondering if she ever ate cottage cheese and wanted some. We never eat that stuff...so anyway, I bought her some Daisy cottage cheese, given how she loves the commercials...well she hated it...the other little dog hates it too...so...we had to find ways to use that cottage cheese up ourselves...lol...I have no idea what to do with it...we've just never eaten it. I love sour cream, but not cottage cheese.



I fear I'm rambling here...the Dickens you say...time for me to make some tea...where are all the crickets???

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 02/28/2022 16:51:40

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 02/28/2022:  19:56:03

Hey guys, I had the time tonight to have a look at the jam tracks on OTJ for Cricket on the Hearth...wow...the regular guitar track seems crazy fast to me...or am I just that slow? Lol...and the slow guitar jam track seems just kinda fast...probably still faster than I personally like to play...so anyhow, in case there are any other slow pokes out there such as myself...I did find this play along youtube that's slow-paced and not too notey, somebody made for cricket on the hearth which I will share in case it helps anybody learn it or practice it... youtu.be/Yb6qK4vzaGQ



I will probably make my own jam track when I get to this, hopefully within the next couple of days since as of tomorrow our Virtual Fiddle Festival clock will be ticking...kinda busy around here but I think I can get to it within the next few days. Not sure how slow mine will be...lol...but I usually opt for a pretty slow speed on these things.



Alright...so in about another hour, we are officially March 1st. Goodbye February and Hello March...and hello Cricket on the Hearth.

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 02/28/2022 20:01:26

ChickenMan - Posted - 02/28/2022:  22:02:52

Thought I would get in early this month.

Originally posted on the Banjo Hangout Tune of the Week a few weeks ago. Paul Perkins on the 5 string banjo. 

Cricket on the Hearth

 

RichJ - Posted - 03/01/2022:  02:03:14

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Originally posted by groundhogpeggy

...I did find this play along youtube that's slow-paced and not too notey, somebody made for cricket on the hearth which I will share in case it helps anybody learn it or practice it... youtu.be/Yb6qK4vzaGQ

Nice rendition and tempo on that version Peggy. I notice the person who posted it had a lot to say on similarity of the tune with a bunch of others - "Damon's Winder," (oh-oh another "winder" tune),  "Devil in Georgia (2) (The)," "Drunken Billy Goat," "Grand Hornpipe (1)," "Marmaduke's Hornpipe," "Mud Fence," (JP Fraley has a nice version of this one),  "Ride the Goat Over the Mountains," "Rocky Mountain Goat," and "Swiss Chalet."

I Found a version of Damon's Winder on YT - Boy, that sure sounds like COTH.

youtube.com/watch?v=DR_YOAdE_d4

Edited by - RichJ on 03/01/2022 02:08:32

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/01/2022:  04:31:05

Great job, Chickenman! Sounds good...I like the way you play it. Sounds like to me the tempo is somewhere between the "slow jam" lol and the "regular speed" on OTJ. That sounds like a good pace.

Congrats for being the very first participant for the month of March...Yay...and nice fiddling!



Rich, thanks for that version of...forget which name it was now...lol...on the youtube you linked...it's very similar for sure...change in the B part there is the only thing that seems to take a detour from the original. I think his pace is about the same as Chickenman's...somewhere between what old time jam has as slow and regular. Faster than slow but slower than regular, I mean according to OTJ's figurin'.



So, well to me the tempo is of course all up to what the individual is comfortable with and of course what a person just likes. It's kind of amazing to me that OTJ prefers this thing at lightning speed...usually their slow jam is a good place to begin and then you can move on up to regular if you choose to from there...seems to me on this tune they are off to the races...lol...maybe it's just me though...ok if you can do that and wanna do that...but remember it's also ok to pick your own speed...go for it guys!



Thanks again, Chickenman, for getting us off to a great start!  I thought yours was one of the best versions I've come across looking at this tune.  Let's go...play that tune!

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 03/01/2022 04:34:41

DougD - Posted - 03/01/2022:  05:21:22

Richj - That person was just quoting from the Fiddler's Companion/TTA. He really had nothing to say, except that he knew how to cut and paste. Pretty common these days of course.
Peggy, I don't usually agree with you on tempos, but I just checked the OTJ site and the "regular" backup seems too fast to me too. The slow one is more like it. Actually Walt and Clare's tempo is about what I'm used to - not surprising since I played with Walt for many years.

Edited by - DougD on 03/01/2022 05:30:04

nickmc - Posted - 03/01/2022:  05:27:55

quote:

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Originally posted by ChickenMan

Thought I would get in early this month.

Originally posted on the Banjo Hangout Tune of the Week a few weeks ago. Paul Perkins on the 5 string banjo. 

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Awesome fiddling and banjer picking!!

FiddlingPJ - Posted - 03/01/2022:  06:17:20

Thank you all for sharing some awesome songs (and sounds). I sent the clips to my sons who all played violin during their school years. I am currently learning Ookpik Waltz and Fiddlerdi here on the hangouts has the best sounds so far.

This is my first comment in the hangouts. Hoping to become a little more active as I progress with my music. (I am classically trained turned fiddler).

PammieJ

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/01/2022:  08:30:17

Thanks for joining in the discussion, Pamela! Hope you will play us a tune here...hope you will even play Cricket on the Hearth with/for us here! Glad to see you here!

Doug...well I think you've played with about everybody out there...lol. Yeah, I'm wondering what our old time jam buddies were drinkin' the day they recorded this one...lol.

NCnotes - Posted - 03/01/2022:  10:08:46

Sounds great, Billy!! I like your version!

I have a feeling I'm going to get stuck on those doublestops...

nickmc - Posted - 03/01/2022:  12:55:28

Well here goes mine. I listened to a few versions on youtube and kinda made my own. I could play it all week and it wont be much better than what I got so here it is. It is a very fun tune!! Thank you for another fun challenge!

youtu.be/EIDxtSEkzVA

VIDEO: Cricket on the Hearth
(click to view)

 

DougD - Posted - 03/01/2022:  13:26:44

NCnotes - That YouTube you posted by Matt Brown is a nice easygoing version. I think if you compare it to the ones from Benton Flippen, Kenny Baker and Walt and Clare you'll find they're all pretty similar. This tune has a fairly "notey" A part, and then a kind of generic B part with a place for improvisation or tricks like cricket sounds. If there's a second instrument they frequently take a break, like the banjo in that video. Or even a dancer.
We're very fortunate to have this extremely rare footage of an early recording of this tune: bluegrasstoday.com/cricket-on-...lonesome/
You can see the banjoist stand up to take his turn, to make sure the recording horn picks him up.

ChickenMan - Posted - 03/01/2022:  16:30:59

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/02/2022:  04:26:14

Nick...the most unique one I've come across...you took it into an interesting direction! Nice fiddling! Thanks for jumping in here early. You and Chickenman are leading the pack.

Doug, I started watching the video but didn't hear any sound and running out of time...we've got stuff going on and gotta hurry. I'll come back and look again later...I did see a familiar looking stove...we have one like that now sitting alone in the shed...my great grandmother's stove...somehow it was one of the few things I managed to rescue from the farm...her pot bellied stove (hers looks like the one in the movie, but quite a bit smaller) and her coffee grinder. Well but anyway, the point here is I ddin't see it all and wondered if there was ever sound...I'll look later.

I'm hoping to get time to try this tune by Friday ...my usual music day where I try to set aside 4 hours or so for music...other than that, I have listened to a lot of youtubes on this one, since there's no fiddle part on OTJ...and when I try to think it in my head while I'm doing other stuff...which is how I mainly practice...just thinking a tune in my head...anyway, it always morphs inside my head to New Five Cent Piece...lol...once I catch myself, I realize I'm still lost and don't have a grip on what COTH actually sounds like on its own, minus the NFCP I keep going into in my brain. lol...anyway...cool that we are starting early with this one and I'm gonna try to get something going with this by Friday, unless I get lucky and get some time to fiddle around with it before then. I'm gonna make my own jam track, of course, since the Presonus is here...I might put that up on youtube separately in case any slow pokes such as I am would find it helpful, self included of course.

Keep fiddling, guys...we'll get 'er done! Thanks for the participation so far. Fun to hear what y'all do with it.

DougD - Posted - 03/02/2022:  06:00:22

Peggy, its a silent film, untill they record the tune. Movies didn't have sound in 1921.
BTW, "NFCP," at least the way Paul Warren played it, sounds a lot like "Robinson County." Different tune though.

nickmc - Posted - 03/02/2022:  06:12:21

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Originally posted by DougD

Peggy, its a silent film, untill they record the tune. Movies didn't have sound in 1921.

BTW, "NFCP," at least the way Paul Warren played it, sounds a lot like "Robinson County." Different tune though.

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Andy Cartoun did a great job on that video. My favorite part was the printed off sheet that said the recordings were being done on Feb 31st!

nickmc - Posted - 03/02/2022:  06:16:20

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Originally posted by groundhogpeggy

Nick...the most unique one I've come across...you took it into an interesting direction! Nice fiddling! Thanks for jumping in here early. You and Chickenman are leading the pack.



Doug, I started watching the video but didn't hear any sound and running out of time...we've got stuff going on and gotta hurry. I'll come back and look again later...I did see a familiar looking stove...we have one like that now sitting alone in the shed...my great grandmother's stove...somehow it was one of the few things I managed to rescue from the farm...her pot bellied stove (hers looks like the one in the movie, but quite a bit smaller) and her coffee grinder. Well but anyway, the point here is I ddin't see it all and wondered if there was ever sound...I'll look later.



I'm hoping to get time to try this tune by Friday ...my usual music day where I try to set aside 4 hours or so for music...other than that, I have listened to a lot of youtubes on this one, since there's no fiddle part on OTJ...and when I try to think it in my head while I'm doing other stuff...which is how I mainly practice...just thinking a tune in my head...anyway, it always morphs inside my head to New Five Cent Piece...lol...once I catch myself, I realize I'm still lost and don't have a grip on what COTH actually sounds like on its own, minus the NFCP I keep going into in my brain. lol...anyway...cool that we are starting early with this one and I'm gonna try to get something going with this by Friday, unless I get lucky and get some time to fiddle around with it before then. I'm gonna make my own jam track, of course, since the Presonus is here...I might put that up on youtube separately in case any slow pokes such as I am would find it helpful, self included of course.



Keep fiddling, guys...we'll get 'er done! Thanks for the participation so far. Fun to hear what y'all do with it.

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Thank you for listening! Chickenman set the bar high! I love listening to everyone and cannot wait to hear more!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/02/2022:  07:06:31

Oops...I guess I gave up too fast on that silent video...lol...what was I thinking? Well I'm in a rush...always these days it seems...there is so much going on and I just can't keep up...we're sort of in a frenzy to figure a lot of problems out and see how stuff turns out...but anyway...

Yes, Chickenman done went and set the bar very high...lol...he's just good...great inspiration!

Well I was feeling guilty about not getting even a hint of how this tune goes...not being able to think it through inside my mind without morphing into New Five Cent Piece...so I dropped everything and ran downstairs to try to play it along with the slow jam on Old Time Jam...I'm so camera shy this is always very difficult and awkward for me to do...lol...but how does one get over that? It's only gotten worse for me in recent years. But so anyhow, I put the fiddle in ADAE and tried my best to fumble through with Cricket on the Hearth type notes all the way through...and seemed like I thought at the end to throw in cricket chirps but ends up sounds more like I was murdering both the cricket and the fiddle at the same time...anyway...I felt guitly for being slow to get in on this...here's my horrifying thing and I do plan to learn it better and make a better version on my presonus recording studio as soon as I can get to that. Life is just unbelievable...bad stress levels for us now and just seeing what-all is going on in the world ain't helpin' my chronic headache I've had for a couple of weeks now. But here's what I tried to do...the dogs came in the room with me and left right away when they saw my mood...lol...here's what I came up with to start out... gotta a lot to learn youtu.be/og7xKmHxfcw

christym - Posted - 03/02/2022:  07:49:38

That sounded great to me, as if you've been playing the tune for a long time :)  Chirping crickets a bonus (I need to go back and look at the how-to video you shared).

Edited by - christym on 03/02/2022 07:51:06

NCnotes - Posted - 03/02/2022:  09:33:06

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Originally posted by groundhogpeggy

Hey guys, I had the time tonight to have a look at the jam tracks on OTJ for Cricket on the Hearth...wow...the regular guitar track seems crazy fast to me...or am I just that slow? Lol...and the slow guitar jam track seems just kinda fast...probably still faster than I personally like to play...

Peggy, woohoo you ain't kidding! Having kind of got the notes, I just tried to play along with the guitar/banjo track on OTJ and boy, my fingers were tripping over eachother! I think if I want to play along at that speed, maybe gotta edit and make a simpler version with fewer notes in it...

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/02/2022:  13:06:53

Lol...it's quite shocking to try, isn't it? Lol...pretty doggone fast.

RichJ - Posted - 03/02/2022:  13:21:21

Well here's my first attempt. youtube.com/watch?v=vXo20ACIf4Q

OK, I know this is a D tune usually done in standard and I did fool around with it for a day or two that way. Then decided to use my ole' favorite fiddle which seems to always be cross tuned in FCFC. So it means Mr. Cricket gets knocked down a few octaves and may not sound as squeaky. Plenty of time to mess around with this one so I'll likely try again in another key and tuning. Oh, hopefully this sounds something like the Walt and Clare version of COTH previously posted by Doug D.   

nickmc - Posted - 03/02/2022:  15:09:51

That was great Peggy! Your drones swell so nice and you have an awesome pocket of rhythm!

This is so fun! Thank you for doing this.

ChickenMan - Posted - 03/02/2022:  16:05:21

This was a VFF tune back in the old days of VFF.

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/02/2022:  16:48:20

Sounds good, Rich! I like that version and I agree it sounds good pitched down lower. Hope Maxie was standing by to hear you do that one...lol.



Thanks, Nick...I don't feel like I've got it in my head yet...lol...I'll get there I guess.



Chickenman, are you kidding????? I feel like I've never heard of this tune in my whole life...lol...I must've been busy in TN when VFF did this...please don't tell me I played it...lol...I really do not remember it at all. I know I'm probably going crazy, but I hope not as bad as it seems...lol.



If Friday works out for me, I plan to sit down with the presonus and try to figure out my own way to play this one.  In the meantime...plenty of good fiddling from participants on this one for us so far.

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 03/02/2022 16:49:28

NCnotes - Posted - 03/02/2022:  18:43:13

RichJ, I like it down low like that, with the alternate tuning! It's very relaxing to listen to.

DougD, Thanks for the video clip, it is a treasure. As a classical musician, had to laugh when I saw them put the sheet music (looked quite technical, too!) on the stand. Admired the nice cricket they placed on their hearth. And, I can relate to the ambient noise humor...(reminded me of the time I was making what I felt was an inspired and flawless recording of a guitar piece I had been working hard on...and in the last 30 seconds, my daughter loudly ripped open a bag of chips and started munching loudly) The banjo player is priceless LOL.

ChickenMan - Posted - 03/02/2022:  19:44:52

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Originally posted by groundhogpeggy

Chickenman, are you kidding????? I feel like I've never heard of this tune in my whole life...lol...I must've been busy in TN when VFF did this...please don't tell me I played it...lol...I really do not remember it at all. I know I'm probably going crazy, but I hope not as bad as it seems...lol. 

 

 

July 2014 VFF. There would be no other reason for me to learn it as it wouldn't have crossed my path without VFF. I have a bunch of tunes on my list that came from VFF. 

Attached is my solo version from back then. It's a barn burner, whereas the one with banjo is more dance tempo. I also noticed that I posted the banjo one at minutes past midnight, literally as early as possible 

Edited by - ChickenMan on 03/02/2022 19:45:30

Cricket on the Hearth

 

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/03/2022:  05:00:37

Wow, you can hear the enthusiasm burning it up in that one, Chickenman! You play so well! The ending is a pretty nice little cool-down to end it with...lol.

Well I can't remember what we were doing in July 2014, only that I retired in 2009, hoping to settle down and finally get into music like I always wanted to, then being bombarded with troubles people up and down the interstate had and of course nobody could handle any of the work but us...so all we did was rip out drywall, flooring, put in windows, doors, new drywall, new flooring, build foundations with hundreds of bags of concrete for toppling houses that people needed to live in, jump in and mortgage our own little shack to save them from homelessness, drive people to the hospital and take them food...etc. etc. etc. Today we are so burned out and exhausted, have our own health problems and I don't see anybody running to help us...lol...so i guess we were fools, maybe. I always advise anybody retiring now...don't tell anybody...they will eat you up like wolves...I mean, it's like winnning the lottery. Some of the people we helped won't even speak to us at this point. Anyway, that's why i wonder which state I was in doing what, with what kinda tool in my hands instead of a fiddle...lol...it's been weird, I'm tellin' ya. If I did learn Cricket on the Hearth, I was probably half asleep, exhausted and outta my mind while doing it...lol.

Well but this time I'm gonna try tomorrow to get presonus time and get up a COTH that I can relate to and live with.

RichJ - Posted - 03/03/2022:  08:43:22

After listening to my cricket in F I decided he sounds tired and needs a waking up. So, today I tried it with a Presonus recording in the traditional key of D and standard tuning.

Cricket on the Hearth D standard tuning

 

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/03/2022:  09:33:54

Sounds good, Rich! Crickets hopping a little higher there, hey? I like the b part quite a bit.

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/03/2022:  12:41:34

Well I got some time this afternoon and got a maybe better/maybe not...lol...Cricket on the Hearth...playing in D. Fiddle is ADAE. Banjo Double C and capoed up to D. I realize my cricket chirps are nothing to write home about...the last one actually sounds a lot more like horses than crickets...but...well that's something to work on, hey? So here is today's effort...

youtu.be/8oRgydsSk8A

Plus I took out the fiddle track and left the backups for a jam track for myself and possibly any other slow fiddlers of America or the rest of the world who may find it of some use.

youtu.be/AhTk4vGnfy4

So now that I've done this before my usual recording day, Friday...what will I play tomorrow?????

christym - Posted - 03/03/2022:  16:10:01

Rich, that's another nice recording.

Peggy's yours sound great too. The guitar and squirrels video might be my favorite--perhaps because I've been listening to/spending a little more time with guitar lately, and because I imagine it took some work coming up with the arrangement. Oh and thanks for the jam track.

christym - Posted - 03/03/2022:  18:09:42

I just began working on this tune yesterday from a recording of Jerry Lundy-- chosen mainly because it was pleasant sounding and suited my mood. Hilary Dirlam accompanies him on guitar.  Today after slowing it down and trying to get some of the subtleties, it has really started to grow on me.

fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/tra...-hearth-2

Turns out Jerry Lundy is/was Emmet Lundy's grandson. He passed away in 2001.  It says in this thread about his passing (on which FHO's Carl Baron, I think, contributed) that he Jerry Lundy played at "President Carter's Inauguration, for Princess Anne when she visited the area and in Cairo, Egypt..."

groups.google.com/g/rec.music....nd9lAfEcJ

Edited by - christym on 03/03/2022 18:18:36

DougD - Posted - 03/03/2022:  18:56:03

christym - You had mentioned that the only tune from Jerry at Slippery Hill was "Flatwoods." That may be the only one in the M-K collection, but the Southern Mountain Boys are featured in the recordings of the 1974 Brandywine festival at Slippery Hill, and I'm pretty sure that's Jerry playing fiddle.

christym - Posted - 03/03/2022:  19:06:37

Oh yeah.  Thanks Doug.

pete_fiddle - Posted - 03/04/2022:  04:05:49

Just learning "MuseScore" notation program so i thought i might as well transcribe a simplified Kenny Baker version of "Cricket On The Hearth" and upload it. Its Standard notation and in PDF format...Anyone else use MuseSore here?

I uploaded a MIDI version as well i think it is in the "Tabs"....But i cant seem to attach it to this post

Sort of got it down on fiddle but not up to speed yet he plays it just over 120bpm i think!

Edited by - pete_fiddle on 03/04/2022 04:09:14

Cricket On The Hearth

 

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/04/2022:  04:19:37

Whew, that looks like a lot of notes...lol...very nice of you to do and I'm sure that'll help a lot of folks who can read the notes. Hope you will play it for us soon!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/04/2022:  04:47:47

Gonna try to link to my jam track here...I think you can download them from FHO...just in case it would be helpful to anybody. LEt's see if I can figure out how to link it here...lol...I'm a dummy...so who knows.  Oops...lemme try again.

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 03/04/2022 04:48:42

Cricket on the Hearth jam track D

 

NCnotes - Posted - 03/04/2022:  05:45:05

Thanks for the nice jam track, Peggy and the sheet music, Pete!



I really enjoyed listening to your latest version, Peggy! And I think your "cricket noises" are quite excellent. 

Edited by - NCnotes on 03/04/2022 05:47:01

pete_fiddle - Posted - 03/04/2022:  06:00:50

Yep that works with the Notes i posted....Just downloaded it, put it into reaper and played along.

Sounds Good!...Will record it soon thanks Peggy.

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 03/04/2022:  06:36:03

Well then I'm glad I uploaded that here...lol. Hope to hear more crickets soon!

RichJ - Posted - 03/04/2022:  08:09:00

Well thanks to VFF and Peggy's COTH jam track here's my first official jam with Peggy. I did this by first downloading Peggy's mp3 file, then dragged it into a Presonus track and added my fiddle. Who's gonna' know we were more than 1000 miles apart?

Cricket on the Hearth with Peggy jam track