I believe I am discovering the very special atmosphere of minor scales ... not 100% sure if it has to do with minor scales, my theoretical knowledge is far away, but I am in GDGD and trying to experiment with Greasy Coat in GDGD as shown in a lesson I found on YouTube. I cannot follow the whole tune yet, first try is more like figuring out which notes to use and which ones to leave out, but I am having great fun with this! That is what counts.
Tumblin Dice
Little Runaway
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny B. Good
(On Banjer)
A Cajun tune called the Back Door, on fiddle.
Two Strathspeys - The Laird of Drumblaire & Little John's Hame from Tommy Peoples book 50 Irish Fiddle Tunes.
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Originally posted by QuincyI believe I am discovering the very special atmosphere of minor scales ... not 100% sure if it has to do with minor scales, my theoretical knowledge is far away, but I am in GDGD and trying to experiment with Greasy Coat in GDGD as shown in a lesson I found on YouTube. I cannot follow the whole tune yet, first try is more like figuring out which notes to use and which ones to leave out, but I am having great fun with this! That is what counts.
I wanna jump into cross tuning one of these days.
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Originally posted by QuincyI believe I am discovering the very special atmosphere of minor scales ... not 100% sure if it has to do with minor scales, my theoretical knowledge is far away, but I am in GDGD and trying to experiment with Greasy Coat in GDGD as shown in a lesson I found on YouTube. I cannot follow the whole tune yet, first try is more like figuring out which notes to use and which ones to leave out, but I am having great fun with this! That is what counts.
I wanna jump into cross tuning one of these days.
That is great news! You will have so much fun! What I learned so far:
- use steel strings only
- tune G and D one up or one or a few down and the A and E only down , do not tune A and E up or you are doomed to break a string
-if you tune up , first turn the string down a little bit - only after that you tune up : first put some of the tension off before you put more tension on a string
- It seems to me it is all about which notes to pick and which notes to leave out / where to place your fingers and where not
- use of pinky = extra options
- trying other positions = extra options but still need to figure this out hehe
Go for it!!!! In the beginning I had just no clue, I remember this period very well I was trying so hard to figure this out it took me a while.
Fiddle is a joy for life , I love this so much even though I am far from where I want to get it keeps me busy and brightens my darker days.
youtu.be/eQ_N2skWUqI
How GOOD are they!!
I must try to figure this one out, to my surprise I found the sheet music.
Indian Corn
Irish Trad...
Porthole of the Kelp (reel)
Banks of Lough Gowna (jig)
Harvest Home (hornpipe)
Hey I got some of everything! :-)
PS Anja-love their playing and heartily agree with name of the tune! Something I know you never do, since you are a devoted dog trainer.
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Here's the Skillet Lickers recording, set to an old cartoon. youtu.be/hJ3rXbFn8qE?si=Zw6FKW0h-gjgPIBT
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PS Anja-love their playing and heartily agree with name of the tune! Something I know you never do, since you are a devoted dog trainer.
Maar... waarom??
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Originally posted by NCnotesIrish Trad...
PS Anja-love their playing and heartily agree with name of the tune! Something I know you never do, since you are a devoted dog trainer.
Maar... waarom??
Name of tune you posted was "gotta stop kicking my dog around"...
and I remembered that you had a Belgian malinois that you trained!
so was just joking around ( I know you are a dog lover :-)
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Originally posted by Quincyquote:
Originally posted by NCnotesIrish Trad...
PS Anja-love their playing and heartily agree with name of the tune! Something I know you never do, since you are a devoted dog trainer.
Maar... waarom??
Name of tune you posted was "gotta stop kicking my dog around"...
and I remembered that you had a Belgian malinois that you trained!
so was just joking around ( I know you are a dog lover :-)
Your heartily agree did it! It worked hehe.
I actually got an offer for my dog as detection dog but I am keeping her for myself, she is my best guard dog so far and I couldn't live without her. She means the world to me.
Georgia Belles, Bucking Mules version from their Smoke Behind the Clouds CD
Bound to Have a Little Fun
Ook Pick Waltz
Gusty's Frolics
Eighth of January of course
youtu.be/q6Bn9CkRp-s?si=l_Uogvp7zlOdckmM
Also, Hand Me Downn My Walking Cane and Blackberry Smoke's, One Horse Town.
Shenandoah Falls, because I've always liked it. And on another fiddle, trying to polish up Drunken Hiccups.
I'm working on playing and arranging "Give the Fiddler a Dram." I've got simple version of it worked out and now I'm trying to figure out how to play and sing it with my Tuesday night jam group.
One difficulty I am having, especially with modal tunes, is how to instruct my jam mates to play along. I'm learning the melody of the song by ear, but for my guitar, banjo, bass and mando players...they want to know the chords and, sometimes, especially with modal songs, I can't figure out exactly all the chords.
Don't know which version of this tune you're working on, but I play this one: slippery-hill.com/content/fiddler-dram
It was recorded in cross tuned A, but I usually just play it in G, standard tuning.
Many so called "modal" tunes use a flat VII chord instead of the V, so in A that would be G, or in G, an F. In the old days, many guitarists didn't do this, and just played whatever they thought sounded good.
Well, it's the morning down here so ain't got me fiddle out yet, but yesterday I learnt to play '8th of January' from the guys at 'fiddle tune library' on facebook.
Just fell in love with "Farewell Trion"
Such a cool tune. I have a WAYS to go. But it's a fun challenge.
January Waltz.
Over here, Nervously jotting down first measures and sets since we are going to play at the community center next week…usually any “audience” is just folks sitting around chatting and doing their own thing, but at the community center people sit on folding chairs in rows…the session gets advertised via email as a “Celtic jam”… it’s all a bit intimidating and it tends to thin the ranks of our session group too, so I hope we get enough players!
Valse d'Hiver (Winter Waltz) is also great tune.
Briar Picker Brown yay ! I got this at a slow speed and a little bit more up tempo and now heading towards speeding it up.
Finally everything comes together, I start to understand why I would need a certain kind of crosstuning for certain types of tunes in certain types of key and oh yes this brings me my beloved euphoria :-D
Trying to play together with other instruments is my goal now, gone the solo figuring it out , gone with ideas of pressure that I would perhaps need a metronome or the sheet music - I do NOT need them, they are not mandatory phew.
