Humbled by this instrument - Posted - 01/03/2014:  15:22:18

Me?  Glad you asked.

Donald McIlvary, Cold Rain and Snow, Angelina Baker, Archibald McDonald o' Keppoch, Crossing the Ridge, Banish Misfortune, Shady Grove, Swallowtail, Soldier's Joy, Clinch Mountain, Connaughtman's, all rather slowly with adornments here and there.  Might have forgot one or two.  

How 'bout you?

ScottK - Posted - 01/03/2014:  15:37:28

Haven't picked up the fiddle yet, today.  But yesterday I played a pile of tunes in GDGD:  Breaking in the String, Road to Maysville, Big Hoedown, Ways of the World, Cluck Old Hen, Road to Malvern, Creek's All Muddy and the Pond's All Dry, Ida Red, Hell and Grace, Old Ragged Coat, Brushy Fork of John's Creek, Little Rabbit, Flippin' Jenny, Late for the Dance, Get Up in the Cool, Geese Honking, Valse des poeles, Hangman's Reel, Irish Polka, Shady Grove (Kilby Snow's)

Scott

ajisai - Posted - 01/03/2014:  15:41:16

Abe's Retreat and Old Christmas on fiddle. Half-Shaved and Jack Wilson and Mississippi Sawyer and Soldier's Joy and Tally Ho on banjo. (Banjo tunes count, right?) And then I had to tear myself away (I'm kind of serious about that) and head out into the snow to go downtown for work. 

Now that I'm home I'm going to work some more on Old Christmas (I heard a couple of new things on the train I want to try) and start cleaning up a few things in John Brown's Dream and then I'll probably play a bunch more cross-tuned tunes and drift back to the banjo ... 

Bradford - Posted - 01/03/2014:  15:45:46

The Flying Snow Shovel

tonyelder - Posted - 01/03/2014:  16:09:26

So far, gone through some songs in A. I'm trying to polish my fiddling and singing.

Ain't That Skippin' And Flyin; Big Eyed Rabbit; Cindy; Cripple Creek; Cripple Creek; Crow Black Chicken; and Georgia Railroad



and hopefully, I'll get around to the rest.

Edited by - tonyelder on 01/03/2014 16:11:52

Fidleir - Posted - 01/03/2014:  16:20:24

The Cameronian Reel and some random mazurkas and slides.

Mandogryl - Posted - 01/03/2014:  16:38:24

The Popcorn, Frank's Reel, Princess Jig, Levantine's Barrel, Finn Schottiche, The Gobbio, Reel St. Hubert, Country Waltz, Leve-toi Marie, and Black Joke too.

(All on cello, I should add.)

Edited by - Mandogryl on 01/03/2014 16:39:03

fiddlerjoebob - Posted - 01/03/2014:  17:01:54

Mollie put the kettel on, and Billy in the Low Ground....then it got to cold and I froze solid.  -20 at the moment.  

fiddlinsteudel - Posted - 01/03/2014:  17:06:21

Lonesome fiddle blues, El Cumbanchero, deputy dalton

bwright - Posted - 01/03/2014:  18:53:00

Bill Sullivan's/Britches full of stitches,flop eared mule (really really simple version) Elk River Blues.

bsed - Posted - 01/03/2014:  18:54:54

Nine Days In Bethel. It's a tune by Tara Nevins who played with the Heartbeats. It was on their 1991 Marramac release (Black & White).

I love this tune because it really swings and gets real bluesy, yet sounds very OT (played in Ax).

Anybody know where Tara can be found these days?

eeee - Posted - 01/03/2014:  19:11:24

Cattle In The Cane, Cheyenne, Lost Indian, Zion's March, Two O'clock In The Morning, Sugar In The Gourd, Wheel Hoss, and Johnny The Blacksmith.

ChickenMan - Posted - 01/03/2014:  19:15:33

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Originally posted by ScottK

Haven't picked up the fiddle yet, today.  But yesterday I played a pile of tunes in GDGD:  Breaking in the String, Road to Maysville, Big Hoedown, Ways of the World, Cluck Old Hen, Road to Malvern, Creek's All Muddy and the Pond's All Dry, Ida Red, Hell and Grace, Old Ragged Coat, Brushy Fork of John's Creek, Little Rabbit, Flippin' Jenny, Late for the Dance, Get Up in the Cool, Geese Honking, Valse des poeles, Hangman's Reel, Irish Polka, Shady Grove (Kilby Snow's)

Scott

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amwildman - Posted - 01/03/2014:  19:39:22

Foxhunter's slip jig and Ride a Mile.

Addie - Posted - 01/03/2014:  20:14:57

"Procrastinator's reel" and "It's too dry (air)."

fiddlinsteudel - Posted - 01/03/2014:  20:21:38

quote:

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Originally posted by bsed

 

Nine Days In Bethel. It's a tune by Tara Nevins who played with the Heartbeats. It was on their 1991 Marramac release (Black & White).

I love this tune because it really swings and gets real bluesy, yet sounds very OT (played in Ax).

Anybody know where Tara can be found these days?

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Couldn't find a video of it on youtube, any soundclips around?

UsuallyPickin - Posted - 01/04/2014:  04:04:27

I've been working on the Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe recording. I keep listening to shorter and shorter sections working on picking up nuances and double stops and drones , musical inflections. I've gotten a handle on Fiddlers Passtime, Wheel Hoss, Road to Columbus, Monroe's Hornpipe, Jerusalem Ridge, Lonesome Moonlight Waltz, Big Sandy River, Cheyenne, Stoney Lonesome, Ashland Breakdown, Brown County Breakdown........ I have yet to work out Mississippi Waltz....... So I am wondering how many times I get to play these tunes to be satisfied with my renditions........... hundreds of if not thousands.... Ahhh the glamorous life of fiddling....... Oh yeah and my fiddle teacher said ..... For your lesson I want you to write a fiddle tune...... Every time I start out on "something" it sounds like something I've heard ...... sheesh..... R/

carlb - Posted - 01/04/2014:  05:31:06

East Tennessee Blues, Norman Edmond's Lady of the Lake, Magnolia One Step. In two more days, I will play Old Christmas Morning and Breaking Up Christmas.

Lee Mysliwiec - Posted - 01/04/2014:  05:36:27

Bye, Bye Honey, I'm Gone and Hornet's Nest

fiddlepogo - Posted - 01/04/2014:  05:49:34

Seneca Square Dance

Ebenezer

Sail Away Ladies

Turkey in the Straw

Golden Slippers

Sandy River Belle

Barlow Knife

Flying Cloud Cotillion

Shelvin Rock

Take Me Back To Georgia

June Apple

Salt Creek

Red Haired Boy

Dundee Hornpipe

Liverpool Hornpipe

Rickett's Hornpipe

Fisher's Hornpipe

Money Musk

Durang's Hornpipe

Arkansas Traveler

Over the Waterfall

Dubuque

Hullican's Jig

Kesh Jig

Cook in the Kitchen Jig

Morpeth Rant

Edited by - fiddlepogo on 01/04/2014 05:54:53

DougD - Posted - 01/04/2014:  06:19:53

bsed - Tara Nevins can usually be found onstage with Donna the Buffalo:  donnathebuffalo.com/   She also has her own projects going on, as usual:  taranevins.com/

Judging from the tune lists, if you all got together it would be one cacophonous jam!

pdfarrell - Posted - 01/04/2014:  06:23:38

quote:

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Originally posted by fiddlepogo

 

Seneca Square Dance

Ebenezer

Sail Away Ladies

Turkey in the Straw

Golden Slippers

Sandy River Belle

Barlow Knife

Flying Cloud Cotillion

Shelvin Rock

Take Me Back To Georgia

June Apple

Salt Creek

Red Haired Boy

Dundee Hornpipe

Liverpool Hornpipe

Rickett's Hornpipe

Fisher's Hornpipe

Money Musk

Durang's Hornpipe

Arkansas Traveler

Over the Waterfall

Dubuque

Hullican's Jig

Kesh Jig

Cook in the Kitchen Jig

Morpeth Rant

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Man Pogo! You can't have only 24 hours in your day!

Me: Old Joe Bone (took about an hour to get the weird wonderful timing, two more hours before it grooved).

Also a little Icy Mountain.

Jasper - Posted - 01/04/2014:  08:02:28

Last night we played,

Paddy on the (PA) Turnpike, Sarah Armstrong's Version

Chattanooga

Shove that Pig's foot...

Hell on the Wabash

Big Scioti

Whiteface

Seneca Square Dance

Lost girl in C

Mississippi Echoes

Rocky Pallet

Hogskin

Triangle Blues

Hell broke Loose in Georgia

Duck River

Jeb's Tune

Mad as a Hornet (Current Fav in certain circles!!)

Maybe a few more, done forgot, Never made it to A :(

bowdragger - Posted - 01/04/2014:  08:17:24

Maybe not strictly a tune in itself but I just like playing The High Road (Tim O'Brien)

pdfarrell - Posted - 01/04/2014:  08:29:25

Hey Jasper, I'm curious... what is Jeb's Tune?

eeee - Posted - 01/04/2014:  08:43:27

quote:

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Originally posted by UsuallyPickin

 

I've been working on the Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe recording. I keep listening to shorter and shorter sections working on picking up nuances and double stops and drones , musical inflections. I've gotten a handle on Fiddlers Passtime, Wheel Hoss, Road to Columbus, Monroe's Hornpipe, Jerusalem Ridge, Lonesome Moonlight Waltz, Big Sandy River, Cheyenne, Stoney Lonesome, Ashland Breakdown, Brown County Breakdown........ I have yet to work out Mississippi Waltz.......

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Okay, it's the next day now. Your list inspired me and I'm playing some of those tunes this morning. Coincidentally I play the same tunes you listed (except for Monroe's Hornpipe), and also haven't yet worked out Mississippi Waltz. In fact I'm going to have to listen to the recording to remember how it goes.

For anybody who wants to know a quintessential bluegrass fiddle record, that's one.

GJ - Posted - 01/04/2014:  09:06:31

Haven't played the fiddle yet today, but yesterday I was playing Trouble On My Mind, Little Boy Working On The Road, Half Past Four and Hog Went Through The Fence Yolk And All crosstuned and Turkey Gobbler, Wagoner, Cauliflower, Maggie Meade, Louisiana Hornpipe and Jimmy Arthurs in standard tuning.

Been playing the banjo this morning - Rebels Raid, John Riley The Shepard, Barlow Knife, Roscoe, Sweet Dixie, Jack Wilson, Peachbottom Creek and Singing Birds

Jasper - Posted - 01/04/2014:  09:49:35

Jeb's Tune is a tune my daughter heard played at Clifftop, here's a link to it...

youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-INxR7X5c

Its in D , 3 Pts. i think...

Listen to it for about 1/2 hr., takes awhile to get the parts situated in your head.

JCB - Posted - 01/04/2014:  09:58:27

Pike's Peak
Black River

hayesdt - Posted - 01/04/2014:  10:13:21

Mostly I've been playing / working on lots of "A tunes" (cross-tuned to AEAE) the past couple of days:  Pretty Little Shoes, Granddad's Favorite, Icy Mountain, Fine Times at Our House (in ADAE as well as AEAE), Going Across the Sea, Breaking Up Christmas, Great High Mountain, Old Horse and Buggy, Swing Lady Home, Texas, Sweet Marie, Quail Is a Pretty Bird, Onchiota Waltz, Mississippi Sawyer (not the more common version played in D), White River, Old Bell Cow, Old Yeller Dog, and Liza Jane-Sandy Boys-Hangman's Reel Medley. 

We haven't been able to get out much the past two days because of this terrible cold and snow in Upstate New York, so I've had a lot of time to work on fiddle tunes.

Edited by - hayesdt on 01/04/2014 10:13:46

Blue - Posted - 01/04/2014:  13:38:52

I've been working on "Dixieland" by Steve Earle so I can play with my son who plays it on mandolin and sings. I'm also working on "Galway Girl" for the same reason. I also just played Cold Frosty Morning, Wkiskey Before Breakfast, Off To California and Lament For The Country House Dance. My left index finger hurts so it's time for a break. :-)

oddjob - Posted - 01/04/2014:  13:50:00

quote:

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Originally posted by UsuallyPickin

 

I've been working on the Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe recording. I keep listening to shorter and shorter sections working on picking up nuances and double stops and drones , musical inflections. I've gotten a handle on Fiddlers Passtime, Wheel Hoss, Road to Columbus, Monroe's Hornpipe, Jerusalem Ridge, Lonesome Moonlight Waltz, Big Sandy River, Cheyenne, Stoney Lonesome, Ashland Breakdown, Brown County Breakdown........ I have yet to work out Mississippi Waltz....... So I am wondering how many times I get to play these tunes to be satisfied with my renditions........... hundreds of if not thousands.... Ahhh the glamorous life of fiddling....... Oh yeah and my fiddle teacher said ..... For your lesson I want you to write a fiddle tune...... Every time I start out on "something" it sounds like something I've heard ...... sheesh..... R/

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Hey, UP-- This sounds like an awesome project, and I'm envious that you have the chops to do it! If you can read music and think it would be helpful, I've noticed several notices several of those tunes transcribed in David Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook.

FiddleJammer - Posted - 01/04/2014:  20:20:25

quote:

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Originally posted by Jasper

 

Jeb's Tune is a tune my daughter heard played at Clifftop, here's a link to it...

youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-INxR7X5c

Its in D , 3 Pts. i think...

Listen to it for about 1/2 hr., takes awhile to get the parts situated in your head.

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One of my favorites.  

Lonesome Fiddler - Posted - 01/04/2014:  21:26:58

Benton's Dream

Big Scioty

Blue Goose

Jingle at the Window

Joke on the Puppy

Last of Harris

Mississippi Sawyer

Possum's Tail is Bare

Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink

Rose in the Mountain

Sally Come Down the Middle

Soppin' the Gravy

Battle Hymn of the Republic

When Sonny Gets Blue

Town Without Pity

All played solo on my front porch.  Nobody listened. 

mossyfiddle - Posted - 01/05/2014:  02:46:51

Táimse Im' Chodladh (slow air), Going to the Well for Water (slide), the Galtee Rangers (reel), Daly's Mill (polka), Eileen O'Riordan's (slide)

In terms of something a little out of the ordinary, yesterday I was playing a polka version of the Barren Rocks of Aden (a Scottish pipe march) from Great Blasket Island, Co. Kerry.

Edited by - mossyfiddle on 01/05/2014 02:50:50

farmer bob - Posted - 01/05/2014:  05:37:32

I play the tune that is in my mind when I wake up in the morning. It becomes my tuna_day. Today its Glory at the meeting house, on fiddle, banjo, dulcimer and Captain Campbell on the button box. By midday this may change... Bob...

DougD - Posted - 01/05/2014:  05:42:42

I do that too. "Glory in the Meetinghouse" was my tune yesterday, and I finally got to play it in the middle of the night - then I sent it on to you! (Probably a different version though, nobody plays the "regular" one anymore).

PS - I'm guessing "Jeb's Tune" is from Jeb Puryear. Donna the Buffalo strikes again!

Edited by - DougD on 01/05/2014 05:46:57

Larry Ayers - Posted - 01/05/2014:  05:49:13

Someone mentioned Tim O'Brien's High Road-- the song's melody makes a great fiddle tune. I've been playing various versions and settings of The Blackbird and The Cuckoo's Nest, as well as The Log Cabin/The Mistress On The Floor medley, inspired by an old De Danann LP.

pdfarrell - Posted - 01/05/2014:  06:18:30

quote:

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Originally posted by DougD

 

I do that too. "Glory in the Meetinghouse" was my tune yesterday, and I finally got to play it in the middle of the night - then I sent it on to you! (Probably a different version though, nobody plays the "regular" one anymore).

PS - I'm guessing "Jeb's Tune" is from Jeb Puryear. Donna the Buffalo strikes again!

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That's what I was thinking about Jeb's Tune. That's the reason I play the fiddle: because of the whole Jeb Puryear/Joe Thrift/Donna the Buffalo thing!

BTW day 2: I can't stop playin Old Joe Bone.

pdfarrell - Posted - 01/05/2014:  06:24:13

quote:

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Originally posted by Jasper

 

Jeb's Tune is a tune my daughter heard played at Clifftop, here's a link to it...

youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-INxR7X5c

Its in D , 3 Pts. i think...

Listen to it for about 1/2 hr., takes awhile to get the parts situated in your head.

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I love it! But 20 minutes is too short!

GeeDubya - Posted - 01/05/2014:  06:59:37

Laughing Boy - Rock Andy - Tea Gardens - Fort Smith - Grand Picnic - Golden Eagle - Kilcooley Woods - Indian Corn - Ebb & Flow - A&E Waltz

DougD - Posted - 01/05/2014:  07:25:37

Good to know somebody else is playing "Tea Gardens." I might have played that one yesterday too, along with "Little Burnt Potato," "Keep the Old Ark a Movin'" and "Peter Francisco."

GeeDubya - Posted - 01/05/2014:  08:04:15

Keep the Old Ark a Movin' now there's one i don't know at all, Doug.  Do tell.  Tea Gardens is a great tune and moves very well into Parry Sound, a nice jig-to-reel combo.

farmer bob - Posted - 01/05/2014:  08:22:49

Just when I thought the day was Glory at the meeting house. Out of the blue came a D dorian reel, Julia Delaney. Took me 10 minutes to figure out on the whistle and 10 seconds on sawmill tuned banjo. Like most new tunes I'll forget it tomorrow until it comes around again... Bob

DougD - Posted - 01/05/2014:  08:34:42

I think "The Old Ark" is an American variant of "Boys of Blue Hill." Its on the Fuzzy Mountain String Band record, still a treasure trove of good tunes:  amazon.com/The-Fuzzy-Mountain-...ring+band  I think they learned it from Taylor Kimble, and it may be on one of the "Old Originals" albums, but I can't access them right now. Its in the Fiddler's Fakebook too I think. Its also in Knauff's Virginia Reels, Vol 1 as "The Two Sisters."

There's a good group version of "Tea Gardens," led by Natalie McMaster, on one of those Nimbus records from the Cork University festivals (the one featuring Cape Breton).

FiddleJammer - Posted - 01/05/2014:  14:10:48

Love Keep The Ark A-Movin' from the Fuzzy's.

irfiddler - Posted - 01/06/2014:  01:09:02

Old Time Fiddlers Meeting today....

Big Scioty
E Tennessee Blues
Bridgets Waltz
Lost Indian (Kenny Baker )
Blue Violet Waltz
Sunrise on the Guinea Farm
Lonesome Fiddle Blues
Benny and Bea's Waltz
June Apple (crosstuned )
Clinch Mountain
Cotton Eyed Joe
Yellow Rose Waltz
After You've Gone
Pennies from Heaven
Whiskey Before Breakfast.
Blackberry Blossom....
Wabash Cannonball ...and so on

GeeDubya - Posted - 01/06/2014:  03:00:38

Fuzzy Mtn LP is sitting on the shelf; I'll dig it out.  Yes the Nimbus CD of the Cape Bretoners @ Cork has some great stuff.  I first learned Tea Gardens from an old Angus Chisholm recording, and it's also written out in Paul Cranford's Jerry Holland tune collection.  Thanks for the pointers Doug and  Terri.

DougD - Posted - 01/06/2014:  06:22:21

I think the notation in Knauff's is very close to the way I play the tune. BTW, if you don't have them, all the volumes of Virginia Reels are available here:  www2.lib.unc.edu/dc/sheetmusic/  I think this is the earliest printed collection of American fiddle tunes.

I always thought "Tea Gardens" was named after some exotic plantation in Assam or somewhere, newsonair.com/feature-image/Da...hills.jpg   but it turns out that Angus Chisolm was waiting for someone across from a Chinese restaurant when he thought of the tune, and that's what it said on the sign!

Edited by - DougD on 01/06/2014 06:23:45