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eric@fiddlehangout.com — Mon, 20 May 2013 06:01:08 CST

I've been trying to find fiddle sheet music for "The French Song " by Lucille Starr . If anyone can help me out I sure would appreciate it. Thanks

What is this tune?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:38:25 CST

Don't make fun of me but I am dying of curiosity here...

(Okay, if you make fun of me, I totally understand.)

What is the song playing during the disclaimer at the beginning of the show Buckwild on MTV?

It's playing from the beginning up until the first 9 seconds:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/buckwild-ep-1-f-the-neighborhood/1699646/playlist.jhtml#series=2211&seriesId=39960&channelId=1

Posting a copy of the Hamblen collection

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:56:55 CST

Hey everyone--

I just signed up to share this (hi!). I requested a copy of the Hamblen collection from the Library of Congress, and I just received it. It cost me $38 and took a few days-- not really a huge deal, but I figured I'd share the love and save you guys from having to do the same.

Before anyone complains-- I DID look up the copyright info and as far as I can tell, it's not copyrighted (it wasn't in the US copyright database). Not surprising since it was published in the mid 19th century. I didn't have to pay anyone any royalties to get a copy, which generally means that nobody owns the rights. If anyone happens to know that it IS copyrighted, please let me know and I will take it down. I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble!

Enjoy!

https://www.yousendit.com/download/UVJnZUNvQTY1UjVYd3NUQw

Midnight Waltz - help please....anyone??...hallooooo!!!!

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:04:29 CST

Does anyone have, or know where I can get the score/tabs/music sheet for Midnight Waltz by bluegrass mandolin player Bobby Clark. Its a beautiful soulful tune...sounds lovely played on the fiddle!!

Emma T

Taking Requests for Doc Roberts Tunes

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Fri, 3 May 2013 08:42:53 CST

I am looking to transcribe a bunch more Doc Robers tunes for DrFiddle.com, but I want to start with the ones that most fiddlers want. So, please request the ones you'd like to see. The lists of available tunes can be found in the track listings one these pages:

http://www.document-records.com/fulldetails.asp?ProdID=DOCD-8042
http://www.document-records.com/fulldetails.asp?ProdID=DOCD-8043
http://www.document-records.com/fulldetails.asp?ProdID=DOCD-8044

I have already posted three tunes:

Jack's Creek Waltz
Leather Britches
Sally Ann

I have transcribed, and will soon post, a few more tunes:

Deer Walk
Farewell Waltz
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Run, Smoke, Run
Waynesboro

Please let me know which tunes you'd like, and I will go ahead and work on them.

Austin Rogers

RIVERDANCE FIDDLE TUNE

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:42:36 CST

I AM GOING TO PLAY AT A LOCAL MUSIC SHOW FOR SOME RIVERDANCERS. DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY FAST EASY SONGS OUR BAND CAN WORK UP? I THINK OF "DROWSY MAGGIE" AND "PADDY ON THE LANDFILL". THEY REALLY ARE NOT THAT EASY BUT SONGS WITH THAT RHYTHM. IF YO KNOW OR HAVE THE MUSIC OR POINT ME TO THE SONG ON I TUNES ETC. THAT WOULD BE VERY NICE. TAB WOULD BE FINE TOO. THANKS. RANDY

Sourgrass and Granite and Copyright?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:57:38 CST

How can one go about ascertaining whether a tune is still under copyright? If it appears in a compendium like the Waltz Books, Bill has done the research for us all. Thanks, Bill!

So, generally, where does one begin?

Specifically, is SG&G public domain yet?

name these tunes?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:08:45 CST

a couple tunes i just start playing out of nowhere, from somewhere years ago in my mental hard drive where i've forgotten more tunes than i know now. played on the banjo, probably wrong and in the wrong key, but can someone identify these two tunes for me?

i've never posted in the forum before, so i don't know if there's a better category to ask this type of question. forgive me if i wandered down the wrong street in fiddletown!

steve

Bile Em Cabbage

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:57:39 CST

Hello folks,

I would like to request music notation for an easy fiddle arrangement of Bile Em Cabbage please.

Thank you,

Leonie

Ruby with the eyes that sparkle

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Fri, 5 Apr 2013 05:34:22 CST

Just watched Cold Mountain the movie great show with some good music in it. Does anyone have the tab or sheet music that I could get for the song they played in it Ruby with the eyes that sparkle. I know this is a version of Shove that pigs foot and I think it is crossed tuned somehow.

Take Me Back To Tulsa tab?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Fri, 5 Apr 2013 05:26:35 CST

Anyone have the fiddle tab or violin sheet music for Take Me Back To Tulsa? My dad used to play this back about 50 years ago.

Ragtime Annie, Eck Robertson, revised transcription

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:35:13 CST

Finally got around to revising my transcription of Ragtime Annie with Musescore. If you want MIDI files, Musescore files, or some universal music format, I can probably provide it. http://www.fiddlehangout.com/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&ie6fix=1&v=1856

You can hear the audio and download the original here: http://archive.org/details/Eck_Robertson_Ragtime_Annie

pretty little . . .

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:00:12 CST

I know:

Pretty Little Dog

Pretty Little Widow

Pretty Little Shoes

Any other pretties out there?

Hi, violin tab

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:42:35 CST

Hello, i am looking for thetab with chords in the Joe Cormier's reel. tks

Looking for some Great Big Sea

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:31:10 CST

Thought it would be fun to learn the fiddle parts of various GBS tunes (to supplement my currently tiny repertoire of practice tunes) but can't find music for em anywhere! Would prefer sheet over tab.

Any of their more up-beat tunes would be ideal.

Pretty Little Shoes

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:12:58 CST

I've figured out most of the A part and B part. but the second phrase of the A part I cannot seem to figure it out. For some reason it is confusing me the way he plays it. It's like lightning cluster of notes. I don't get what he's doing. Can anyone help? Thanks

http://slippery-hill.com/M-K/AEAE/PrettyLittleShoes.mp3

what key is this tune being played in?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:18:49 CST

Here is a youtube video of Martin Hayes playing P. Joe's Reel aka For the Sake of Decency.. Can someone tell me what key he is playing it in?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGBSC7vQ2Wg

Chord progression request

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:21:57 CST

My daughter just called and ask what the chord progression is for two tunes. I don't play guitar so I can't help her.

Here are the tune names.

Rolling in the Rye Grass, in D

Eskimo Reel, in G.

Can you help?

Hawks and Eagles

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:45:41 CST

Looking for fiddle tabs for this tune..Thanks

Looking for Bulgarian and other Eastern European tunes in weird time sigs

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:28:35 CST

I don't know much about this kind of music and haven't had much luck in finding tunes like them

Stuff like this

https://soundcloud.com/emmanuel-delahaye/b09-smeceno-horo

I would rather find links of performances than just sheet music, I learn weird stuff like this by ear much easier.

Wanted: Emmett Lundy's Cumberland Gap

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:40:29 CST

Does anyone know where I might find a recording of Lundy's Cumberland Gap in G? (other than the LOC)

Thanks!

The Dreamer's Waltz -- sheet music

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:42:30 CST

Does anyone out there know where I can obtain the sheet music for The Dreamer's Waltz? Thank you!!!!

Old Home Place

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:04:44 CST

Anyone got the notation for "Old Home Place" written by the Dilliards.

I've got a YouTube clip of it in A, but I'm having difficulty figuring it out.

Thank you.

Star of Munster

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:13:50 CST

Anyone give me a guiding hand on this one. YouTube doesn't really have much and I can pick out some notes but having trouble with it.

Thanks

Looking for Seneca Square Dance

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 7 Feb 2013 13:42:56 CST

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew of any sites that may have this available in music notation, or if anyone could share the notes with me. I have been working on this tune for awhile now trying to pick it up by ear since I don't have it in any of my books that I have. Over all I have gotten the A part down fairly well with maybe a couple of missing notes. The B part is what is giving me some issues, I have the gist of it but feel that I am missing some parts. Appreciate the help, thanks.

notes for starlight waltz

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Wed, 6 Feb 2013 13:04:57 CST

I'm having trouble picking up Starlight Waltz as played by Stephanie Taylor.

Can anybody help.

There are several Starlights, but her rendition....in G I believe......is the one that grabs me.

Thanks.

Goodbye Liza Jane

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 3 Feb 2013 13:42:45 CST

Hi , all passionate fiddlers ,

http://www.onlinelessonvideos.com/product.php?productid=16378&cat=273&page=1

I just love to play this tune, check it out, you may like it too, some acclaims its Bluegrass, some says its Oldtimey, whatever it is, its a beauty, and so much "Fiddling" on it, which cant be written down , its "the secrets of fiddlings"

Kentucky Winder

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:06:15 CST

Can someone with better vison, tell me if this young lady is playing a five string ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=WSjwPcuou64&NR=1

"Oh, Canada"

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:14:35 CST

I don't watch hockey, so I just recently heard this song. Very beautiful. I want to learn it on viola. Anyone have the sheet music, either alto clef or treble which I can transpose?

Texas Style -- Major Franklin

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:12:28 CST

In case anyone is not aware of this resource, there are some downloadable tunes here played by Major Franklin.

The 'Sally Johnson' is, I think, played by Benny Thomasson.

The Belled Buzzard

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:52:44 CST

Has anyone every come across a recording of "The Belled Buzzard?"

There is notation for it here, with a little bit about the tune. I am trying to learn it for Gary Carden, who talks a little about the story in this work.

It sounds like a fun little tune and I am pretty fond of plucking the strings.

Thanks!

G Rag

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:20:57 CST

Can anyone point the way to the tabs or sheet music for the G Rag? Thanks.

Larry

Requiem For A Dream

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:36:06 CST

Does anybody on FHO happen to have the tabs for Requeim for a dream? I will gladly pay someone for their help.

p.s. I cant read music YET!!!

Richmond Cotillon

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:26:45 CST

I would love to know the notes to this one!

Whispering River Waltz

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 14:37:40 CST

Has anybody ever heard this or have old sheet music for it?

I've already done a search, and Google books turned up a copyright in 1935 for Lillian Lewin Hennes.

It's a bit of a wild goose chase.

There's this antique banjo uke for sale at a local music store.

Written on the skin head are several tune titles, including Arizona Waltz and Whispering River Waltz.

I didn't have to go far for Arizona Waltz, it's here on the Hangout played very well by fiddlerdi.

Nothing on Whispering River though as far as anything to let me know what it sounded like. Inquiring minds want to know, you know! Oh well, must not have been a very catchy tune if it disappeared so completely!

Bach Cello Suite #1 Prelude for Violin in D Major (or other easy scale)

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:20:09 CST

Hey Fiddlers,

Is there an official version of sheet music I can buy/download of Bach's Cello Suite #1 for violin in D major? I found some sheet music from a MIDI file but the timing is all wrong compared to recordings I see on Youtube. Here's the suite played on Youtube by someone named Bernard Chevalier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqquSeyDdSU&feature=share&list=PLYyFfzAqKJ7217fCBJviSgN4Cl8NAdNbh

Thanks!

-=- Boris

1925 John W. Dillon, Asheville NC Fiddler, LOC Gordon Collection

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:57:28 CST

I came across this through Richard Matteson's Bluegrass Lyrics Page. I am ashamed to say that I had never heard of John W. Dillon or Robert Winslow Gordon's Collection, considering WNC fiddling is my thing. Only 3 recordings on the page, but apparently there are 12 total.

"Nowhere is Gordon's breadth of interest in folk music traditions more evident than in his recording of fiddle music. His twenty-seven tunes from six fiddlers in North Carolina represent one of the earliest field recordings of traditional fiddling."

Anybody heard any of the other recordings? Or does anyone know anything about Dillon?

Barbara Allen

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:15:13 CST

I've been learning 'Barbara Allen' from sheet music I found on violinsheetmusic.org. I haven't yet located notation for the harmony, in D. Does anyone know where this can be found? Thanks!

Free E-Book or PDF, Arpeggios for Jazz for violin,cello, viole

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:04:59 CST

Mr. Christian Howe, said to share these with anyone. I don't have a reader, so I downloaded the PDF file. Looks like a real good workout. Hope they help .http://christianhowes.com/freebook/

Who Wants to Learn to Read Music?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:51:40 CST

Hi Everyone

I've been working my TAIL off creating an online course "Learn to Read Music". It's specifically for violin. I am at a point where I need some good beta testers. I need about 3 people who can commit to being guinea pigs, and provide me with some feedback as to whether the pace is appropriate, or if it is too hard, etc.

Your commitment: There are 24 units total, and I'd like you to finish them all. Each unit will take about an hour. The course is designed to span 24 weeks, but you can go as fast as you want, but no slower than about 24 weeks, if possible.

I'll take the first 3 people who reply and convince me that you are committed enough to finish this class, and we'll start shortly after the new year.

Hope to hear from you! --Lora

Sally Ann - Historical event? The different lyrics?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Thu, 6 Dec 2012 09:34:16 CST

I'm trying to disambiguate the versions of Sally Ann. Spotify is a great tool to listen to many, many versions of the song.

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/w/whosgonnadancewithsallyann.shtml is that tragic version. Haven't found anything yet on whether there is a historic event behind this tragic tale.

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13719 is the other version, "did ya ever see a muskrat". The midi at this link suggests it's mostly the same tune.

http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/76198 I found a couple of links that suggest to me that the "muskrat" version is sometimes known as "Old Time Sally Ann."

But then there's a recording on this site of Old Time Sally Ann that seems to be a different tune: http://www.hangoutstorage.com/jukebox.asp?site=Fiddle+Hangout&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fiddlehangout.com%2Fmyhangout%2Fmedia-player%2Faudio_player.asp%3Fisjukebox%3Dno%26musicID%3D9060

Nine Days In Bethel

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 2 Dec 2012 13:08:59 CST

This tune was played by the Heartbeats some years ago and I would like to hear a clear version of it. Can any of you help?

Johnny court the widow

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:50:09 CST

anyone have the sheet music or tab on this one ?

Or any other information on the tune, because a search on the web didn't turn up much ...

thanks !

Loch Lavan Castle

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:30:55 CST

Anyone have a tab for this one?

Allison Krauss - Wild Bill Jones

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:41:14 CST

Say, does anybody happen to have fiddle tab or fiddle music to Allison Krauss' break/kickoff to Wild Bill Jones as performed on the Down From the mountain CD? I think its in the Key of B.

Aloha,

Fiddle Bob,

Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii

Thomas Calvert Collection, 1799?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:23:38 CST

Looking for sources, index, .pdf, anything!

Title: A Collection of Marches, Quicksteps, Strathspey, and Reels

Author/Compiler: Thomas Calvert, Kelso, 1799

I have 40 tunes from this collection in .abc, from ibiblio Nigel Gatherer, etc, but very little information. Some great tunes, lots of double stopping. Early Scottish "Borders Style" fiddle music.

HELP!

If anyone wants the .abc I've compiled, I'll post it.

granny take a look at uncle sam

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:24:48 CST

Granny Take A Look At Uncle Sam, is a great tune that I could use some sheet music for. Can you help me find it?

Cow pies and coffee

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:41:05 CST

Yep, Cow pies and Coffee is the name of the tune I'm looking for. Cay anybody help with a good link or resource?

Name of this tune played by Andrew Wilson?

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:42:47 CST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4LzawQGRo&feature=relmfu

Salt River

eric@fiddlehangout.com — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:40:33 CST

Trying to figure out Salt River. This particular version by NOrm Edmonds and was just wondering if it is tuned AEAE, cause I think it might be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc555IHXL30