Yesterday I uploaded these to my channel:
Olive Me (All of Me)
House of the Rising Sun (reprise)
Shady Grove
Kansas City Kitty (reprise)
Sandhills Odyssey (original)
Today(this morning) :
Tom Petty's, The Waiting
Experimenting with different bass mutes

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Yesterday I uploaded these to my channel:
Olive Me (All of Me)
House of the Rising Sun (reprise)
Shady Grove
Kansas City Kitty (reprise)
Sandhills Odyssey (original)
Today(this morning) :
Tom Petty's, The Waiting
Experimenting with different bass mutes

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Is there a link to your channel?

quote:Originally posted by Brian Woodquote:Originally posted by farmerjonesYesterday I uploaded these to my channel:
Olive Me (All of Me)
House of the Rising Sun (reprise)
Shady Grove
Kansas City Kitty (reprise)
Sandhills Odyssey (original)
Today(this morning) :
Tom Petty's, The Waiting
Experimenting with different bass mutes

. . . Is there a link to your channel?

Click on my username, and it's at the top of "about." Or. . . .

youtube.com/@fiddle_guy?si=SoC...g0Wnkh-xw

Happy Hollow in GDGB, first found the right set of notes, listened to many different performances, the winner to me for this one is this version. 

Can't get enough of this performance, that should have way more views, she is ace! Hope to learn the tune from this performance <3

I really like that tune, Anja! PErcussion guy is getting good use out of his instrument…seems to double as something to sit on? :-D

OVer here learning a couple of Irish reels I liked when heard at sesh:
Sandymount (beautifully played by flute friend) and Trip to Durrow

Farmerjones, checked out your channel, very nice - and I love that you have the "Lay or Bust" series! YOur stuff always brings a smile, nothing more relaxing than watching contented chickens and listening to music :-D

Quincy - As you may know, "Happy Hollow" comes from Marcu Martin. Have you heard the recording of him playing it at Slippery Hill? He's tuned all the way down to F, which gives it a deep growling sound. You might get a better feel for the rhythm of the tune from him.

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Quincy - As you may know, "Happy Hollow" comes from Marcu Martin. Have you heard the recording of him playing it at Slippery Hill? He's tuned all the way down to F, which gives it a deep growling sound. You might get a better feel for the rhythm of the tune from him.

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Yes I know the Marcus Martin version also, compared it with my favorite tune version (the woman with the percussionist)... You probably have a good point there, since the Marcus Martin version seems also easier to decypher. Tuning down a lot works great with my old fiddle, it already seems to have a natural growl on the lowest strings <3 I meanwhile also had a look at the transcription, that looks really complicated! 

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I really like that tune, Anja! PErcussion guy is getting good use out of his instrument…seems to double as something to sit on? :-D

 

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Oh I wished I was a percussionist type! Looks like a neat instrument I agree 100% ! These days I also like to practise ... with tuner on metronome position (and to my surprise it's a lot of fun now) :-D 

In a few minutes just half an hour of working on Happy Hollow, then it's time to keep Ziva satisfied with her new set of 5 dog frisbees.
I was planning to go to the Scottish festival this year , but
1) there is a meeting of our radio club Friday evening and I have to be there because they want to inspect my laptop with DMR software on it - since I am the new net leader in training for the weekly round on their DMR repeater since a while, not yet with a DMR radio lol but hey , it's fun
2) the two days after there is the yearly field day of the radio amateur club I joined and I would like to attend and they also would like it I guess since they expect me to be there too :p And that is a bit more spectacular for me than attending the Scottish festival! The idea of a field day is, so I understood - to simulate a radio communication emergency situation, where all power went, the participating members have to set up a radio station that will operate without depending on the light net.

Cool Anja, you may save our lives after the world collapses!

I got “Trip to Durrow” now and tomorrow at session I’m going to share “Pigeon on the Gate / Trip to Durrow” - with fingers crossed that I don’t choke on the transition (well, not literally with fingers crossed!)

Hahaha NCnotes :-p
And damn, that is a crazy cool sounding tune (Pigeon On The Gate, it has something completely old time spirit!) Listening to it on a YT channel named the Celtic Fiddle Festival. I hear some ornamentation I want as well!! I wish I could play like that 0.0

Again Happy Hollow from the video with percussion. Then I'll also study the tune with the help of the Michael Ismerio course :-)))

Yay for Michael Ismerio for his approach, that worked just fine. It sounds very happy for real- especially in AEAC# . This tune is a party on its own, you cannot just listen to it without moving or tapping your feet or feeling the sudden need to make some room and dance. Just a few more good and careful listenings to the slow and moderated tempo and I got all the dots on the i.

Realizing I made it to here feels great. It was worth all the very bad and completely over the top construction workers style cursing moments I experienced throughout the past 5 years.

Now I only want more! More very inviting dance tunes!!!

Chicken and Dumplings    by Trevor Stuart (RIP). A tune he wrote as a lullaby for one of his kids.  I like his version best (in that last link - played twin fiddles with Rayna Gellert.

A very deceptively simple - but very cool tune.  A great warm up / practice tool / with an opportunity to try out a few small creative touches - at different tempos - and have fun doing it. 

I really like listening to the OT tunes! I even try playing along sometimes, I can pick up the tunes, but I’m never cross-tuned and lack the power of drones/doublestops, it sounds "thin" to me.

Over here, learning gorgeous reel SPlendid Isolation ... thinking about pairing it with “Farewell to Milltown” since they are both melancholy G minor/modal tunes. They both have a B-flat in them, so If I ever play these at sesh, I’m bracing myself to go solo, ack...box player said he was gonna learn Farewell to Milltown, so maybe I'll wait till I next see him!  So the set's story is that the player gets tired of staying in Milltown and decides to leave and go seek some isolation.:-) Except I think I like it best with Splendid Isolation first. ANyway it's an 'antisocial' set - haha.

The last song before my recorder broke down.

Nice multitracking and singing!

Every busking day is interesting.. How would I have met all of these great people if I was sitting home? ..and, my busking is usually not more than two hours a day.. What adventures would I have if I could stay out all day?
Today I got to chat with Tom Roznowski, the guy who has a local radio show.. Got to introduce him to Burl Cooper, who is an amazing Washboard player!!! Not too many of those around...I met a guy who is new in town and says he is a busker.. we shall see. He appears to be homeless...Also I met the brother of Katie Hicks, a woman who I introduced to OT fiddle about 18 years ago.. I'd have missed meeting him if I was home in the air conditioning......Still finding money.. nickels and dimes.. pennies seem to have gone away..!

On a day of rememberance, it's good to play some music.

This afternoon several of us fiddlers/buskers from the Bloomington area attended a 'celebration of life' of Roger Grisette.. Roger was a functional fiddler, that is, not amazing but he did put his heart into his fiddling.. He was a regular busker and on occasion he would join my busking for a few tunes while he was on his way to his favored busking spot.. He always impressed me because his personality was so great that he always made great tips and the kids loved him..I'll miss him..
Like many people Roger just looked like another old man playing a fiddle, but unseen was the fact that Roger was an experienced Sierra Club Guide who lead hikers on over 100 trips to the Rocky Mountains...
This rings true for everyone.. When we see someone, for instance, busking... we have absolutely NO IDEA what their life's experiences have been....

Sorry folks.. that post was intended for another forum..

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Sorry folks.. that post was intended for another forum..

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That's what happens when you let the brain do all the thinking for you!    

70th birthday for a dear friend.
2nd to the party, another dear friend I've not seen in years.
4th to the party another friend not seen in years, got me into jamming back in 2003. I felt like I was the one being celebrated.
Tunes? Alot of Dwight & Cyril tunes.

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Originally posted by NCnotes

I really like listening to the OT tunes! I even try playing along sometimes, I can pick up the tunes, but I’m never cross-tuned and lack the power of drones/doublestops, it sounds "thin" to me.

Over here, learning gorgeous reel SPlendid Isolation ... thinking about pairing it with “Farewell to Milltown” since they are both melancholy G minor/modal tunes. They both have a B-flat in them, so If I ever play these at sesh, I’m bracing myself to go solo, ack...box player said he was gonna learn Farewell to Milltown, so maybe I'll wait till I next see him!  So the set's story is that the player gets tired of staying in Milltown and decides to leave and go seek some isolation.:-) Except I think I like it best with Splendid Isolation first. ANyway it's an 'antisocial' set - haha.

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Great tune! (isolation), although i can't disassociate it from "Miss Lawries". just had a go at it with "Farewell To Milltown" and definitely Isolation first for me if i was to pair them. Heres the great Cathal Hayden with his powerful playing.

Splendid Isolation And Miss Lawries (Cathal Hayden)

of Brendan McGlinchy's tune

Thanks Pete,
Ah, those two tunes do go great together! WIll have to learn Miss Laurie’s at some point. :-)

FUnny, but I ran into the ONE other person around here who plays “Farewell to Milltown” yesterday in the dairy section of the grocery store! If only we had our instruments.... :-)

.Brendan McGlinchey playing Splendid Isolation  (with slow air at beginning, not sure if same tune)

So, still working on that one and
Gooseberry Bush <---this should take about a year....hahaha