Posted by fiddlepogo on Saturday, August 28, 2010
Somehow the tune list I posted early on got truncated, so I'm reposting, partly for the benefit of some new folks who might come to the local jams.
The "work on" sections mean I could PROBABLY get through the tune at moderate tempo, but it might be shaky. I still learn tunes fairly quickly, but it helps to have someone local to get me to commit to learning THEIR version and to remind me how the tune goes when I forget!!!
(Edit: I went through all the D tunes, all the G tunes in the "Work On" category, and decided to add another category:
"Can't Start Now"
There aren't very many of these, and there are various reasons for this, sometimes I just haven't played it enough if it's a new tune, so it's only in passive memory (I need to play along with a recording or MIDI file to get me going) OR the version is so flawed or boring that something in me refuses to play it!!!
For instance: Cricket on the Hearth- I've found a better version I need to work on, and Fire on the Mountain... I think my version is a dead simple bluegrass version, and really doesn't have anything to recommend it, but I've heard at least one version I like better, so maybe if I get the gumption... you get the idea. In the meantime, if somebody started playing them at a jam, I could probably start playing along... well, maybe.
I also clarified the ADAE section to reflect that some tunes are also listed in the GDAE section because I mostly play them there, others really should be played in ADAE for flavor's sake, but I could easily play them in GDAE.)
Key of D:
8th of January
Angeline the Baker
Arkansas Traveler
Boil Them Cabbage Down
Chicken Reel
Dubuque
Flop Eared Mule
Forked Deer
Folding Down the Sheets
Golden Slippers
Grasshopper Sittin’ on a Sweet PV
Hell Amongst the Yearlings
Jaybird
Jubalo
La Bastringue
Lafayette
Liberty
Macklemoyle’s Reel
Mississippi Sawyers
Molly Hare
Morpeth Rant
Over the Waterfall
Quince Dillon's High D Tune
Ragtime Annie
Raw Recruit
Richmond Cotillion
Rose Tree
Robinson County
Rock the Cradle, Joe*
Rocky Mountain Goat
Sherman's March To the Sea
Soldier's Joy
St Anne's Reel
Sullivan’s Hollow
Texas Quickstep
Too Young To Marry
Waterford
Westfork Girls
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Willits or Won’t It?
Wind that Shakes the Barley
Yellow Rose of Texas
Rickett's Hornpipe
Fisher's Hornpipe
Durang's Hornpipe.
Burchard's Hornpipe
Harvest Home Hornpipe
Boys of Blue Hill
WORK ON:
Liverpool Hornpipe
Dundee Hornpipe
Cheat or Swing
Cowboy’s Dream
Fortune
Rochester Schottische (Hetzler)
Gaspe Reel
Smith’s Reel
Minneola Rag
Muddy Roads
Nixon's Farewell
Old French
Petronella
Staten Island Hornpipe
Can’t Start now:
Cricket On The Hearth
Possum Up A Gumstump*
Texas Gallop
Key of G:
Barlow Knife
Blackberry Blossom
Colored Aristocracy
Cotton Eyed Joe (2)
Cumberland Gap
Ebenezer
Fiddler's Dram
Flowers of Edinburgh
Girl I Left Behind Me
Hobb Dye
Leather Breeches
Little Liza Jane (2)*
Magpie
Miss McCloud's Reel
Rakes of Mallow
Red Wing/Buffalo Gals
Saddle Up the Grey
Sally Ann/Sail Away Ladies
Sailor's Hornpipe
Sandy River Belle
Seneca Square Dance
Shortenin’ Bread
Shove That Pig's Foot etc.
Stoney Point
Temperance Reel
Turkey in the Straw
Walkin' In My Sleep
WORK ON:
Cobbler’s Reel
Down Yonder
Lady of the Lake
Pecheur
Prince William
Flying Cloud CotillionLouie’s First Tune
Old Mother Flanagan
Jenny Lind Polka
Going To Boston
Cripple Creek
B flat, C, & F:
work on:
Done Gone Bb&C
Democratic Rage Bb
Billy in the Lowground C
Shelvin’ Rock C
Take Me Back To Georgia C
Hull’s Victory F
A Modal:
Cluck Old Hen
Cold Frosty Morning
Cuckoo's Nest
Ducks on the Pond
First of May
Greasy Coat
Growlin' Old Man
June Apple
Kitchen Girl
Money Musk (Reed?)
Old Joe Clark
Red Haired Boy
Salt Creek
Sally in the Garden
Shakin' down the Acorns
Shady Grove
Texas
WORK ON:
28th of January
Can’t Start now:
Granny Will Your Dog Bite?
Bonaparte Crossing the Rockies
Elzic’s Farewell
Paddy on the Railroad
A Major:
Bill Cheatham
Bull at the Wagon
Cherokee Shuffle
Cripple Creek
Sally Goodin
Sourwood Mountain
WORK ON:
Money Musk (Cole’s)Fire on the Mountain
Speed the Plough
Wake Up Susan
Devil’s Dream/Deil Amang the Tailors medley
AEAE
Boatman
Dinah
Little Rabbit
Old Joe Clark
Sugar in the Gourd
John Henry
Ducks on the Pond
George Booker
Grub Springs
AEAE-Crooked
Camp Chase
Fine Times at Our House
Last of Callahan
Ways of the World (modal)
Yew Piney Mountain
WORK ON:
John Brown’s Dream
ADAE
Black-Eyed Susie
Dry And Dusty
awks and Eagles
Rochester Schottische (Jarrell)
Susannah Gal
Walkin’ in the Parlor
The Ways of the World
Wild Hog in the Woods
Jawbone
Can also Play in GDAE
Trude Evans
Johnson Boys
The Lazy Farmer
Rockingham Cindy
Same Old Man
Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm
Shootin’ Creek
Robinson County*
Soldier’s Joy*
Yellow Rose of Texas*
June Apple*
Red Haired Boy*
Salt Creek*
Texas*
(*= duplicate listing in GDAE)
DDAD
Bonaparte’s Retreat (Slow)
Bonaparte’s Retreat (Fast)
George Washington
Glory at the Meeting House
Fiddle songs
Been All Around This World
Frog Went a Courtin’
Glendy Burk
Go In and Out the Window
Handsome Molly
Hard Times Come Again No More
Old Dan Tucker
Old McDonald
She’ll Be Coming Round the Mtn.
The Bear Went Over the Mountain The Yellow Rose of Texas
Jigs:
Irish Washerwoman
Garry Owen
Pop Goes the Weasel
Haste to the Wedding
Connaught Man’s Ramble
St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning
Roaring Jelly
Waltzes
Ashokan Farewell-D
Country Waltz-C
Little Dog Waltz-D
Mockingbird Hill-G
Peeler Creek Waltz_G
Put Your Little Foot Right Here-G
Rosin the Beau-G,C
Wednesday Night Waltz-G,D
Westphalia Waltz C, G
Tennessee Waltz-C, D, sing G
Work on:
Shepherd’s Wife
Peekaboo Waltz
Tombigbee Waltz
Young Jane
The Bowery
After the Ball
Believe Me If All Those E.Y.C.
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Daisy, Daisy
AnteBellum/Civil War Era
Aura Lee
All Quiet Along the Potomac*
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Betsy From Pike
Blue Tailed Fly
Bound for the Rio Grande
Clementine
Follow The Drinkin’ Gourd
I’ve Always Been A Rambler
Listen to the Mockingbird
Nelly Bly*
Old Kentucky Home
Shenandoah
Shiloh
Swanee River
Sweet Sunny South
The Bonnie Blue Flag
Wait For the Wagon
Wayfaring Stranger
9 comments on “Updated Tune List”
scrubber Says:
Sunday, August 29, 2010 @12:45:59 AM
GOLDEN SLIPPERS in D?? I thought I was the only one to prefer this key for that tune -- most of the folks I know like to play it in G...
What I like about D is that it gives me two octaves to play the tune in (i.e., fine and coarse) without going into (verbotten) higher positions...
dave
mudbug Says:
Sunday, August 29, 2010 @1:03:47 AM
Pogo, That there is ONE impressive tunelist!
OTJunky Says:
Sunday, August 29, 2010 @11:01:44 AM
In AEAE - you forgot, "Breaking Up Christmas", "Sourwood Mountain", and "Cotton Eyed Joe".
It might be that you've never played any of these before, and think you don't play'em. But given everything else you play, I'm sure you can play these... ;-)
--OTJ
ChickenMan Says:
Sunday, August 29, 2010 @11:44:11 AM
And you can play them off the cuff? That is one big list.
I just updated mine, and thought I was doing pretty good with just over 100.
So many tunes, yadda yadda.... :-)
fiddlepogo Says:
Sunday, August 29, 2010 @7:34:45 PM
No, I can't play them ALL off the cuff... just most of the ones that AREN'T on the "work on" lists... I think... it's been a while since I've combed through the list for stuff so rusty that it's seized up!!!!
Part of the function of a list, IMO, is to keep track of stuff that you HAVE worked on in the past, so you can revisit it, and build on your past practice of it. And part of the function of a list is so you have something
that when you meet a new jamming partner, they can read through your list, and anything they know you can mark as your common repertoire.
And if someone knows a tune on my "work on" list sections, I WILL work on it and get it active for them.
I do Sourwood Mountain in A in GDAE, and 2 versions of Cotton Eyed Joe in G. (Kenny Hall's and a variant of Bob Will's)
I'm sure I could work up Breakin' Up Christmas pretty quick...
I've got the singing tune in my head:
"Hooray Jake, Hooray John, breakin' up Christmas all night long"...
hey, you don't suppose Breakin' up Christmas is a variant of Cotton Eyed Joe???
I SING Golden Slippers in G, then the last time through I jump up to D and play it at a snappier hoedown tempo...
same fingerings, different strings.
fiddlepogo Says:
Monday, August 30, 2010 @12:52:22 AM
I got inspired to run through ALL my D tunes and all the questionable G tunes.
I added a new category "CAN'T START NOW"... there aren't many in that section, but a few.
Then why have them on the list??? To remind me to work on them. "Out of sight, out of mind!!!"
I also clarified the ADAE section... there are only a small number that I've learned in ADAE that I can't really play just as well in GDAE. There are some I could easily play in GDAE but sound better in ADAE,
and then there are those that I like in GDAE, and are listed in that section, but it's nice to have a reminder of them in the ADAE section in case I was already in that tuning and wanted to play some more before I retuned.
I totaled the non-duplicated fiddle tunes (not including jigs, waltzes or songs), and I got about 170... I didn't expect nearly that much. That's kind of scary... how do you maintain that many tunes.... the answer is you probably DON'T.
I'm guessing only about 70 of those have enough polish to be suitable for gigging or recording.
The list also include some tunes from Cole's 1001 and a few contradance tunes, too.
What with all the cool tunes being played nowadays that hadn't been published or collected when I was actively fiddling and learning in the 1970's, I could easily push it past 200... or more...
then it would be TOTALLY unmanageable!!!
scrubber Says:
Monday, August 30, 2010 @1:58:10 AM
Well, now the tune list is DOUBLE SPACED -- looks much larger (but easier to read)!
Isn't it 'cheating' to sing Golden Slippers in one key and then change to another?? Doesn't seem OT to me...:)
dave
fiddlepogo Says:
Monday, August 30, 2010 @7:55:41 PM
The double-spaced was unintentional... something is squirrelly about the FH blog editor!!!
Cheating??? It's called performing! ;^)
If Richmond Cotillion is in two keys and it's only one tune,
I don't see why you can't do that to Golden Slippers too!!! ;^D
Key changes in Old Time medleys are only verboten when a clawhammer banjo player is present.
I perform alone, I could change keys all the time if I wanted to.
fiddlepogo Says:
Monday, August 30, 2010 @8:02:15 PM
That being said, it occurred to me that I almost never do a key change in a performance unless
I'm changing to or from a singing key... well, I've been known to do Westfalia Waltz in both C and G,
but that's about it.... well, also on a jig medley going from D to G... but that's jigs.
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