Well all the tunes are played in both OT and BG circles. The versions I am hearing are more BG style, but it sounds like you are still putting them together, so not a lot of personal 'style' yet. Why just the "A" or "B" parts?

Because I haven't decided how to play the other parts. I've heard them played in several ways that are pretty different from each other. I used to have six different versions of Billy in the Lowground on here, if I remember correctly, but I took them off.

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Originally posted by wrench13

Why just the "A" or "B" parts?

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Which of these tune segments do you think sounds the best?

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Originally posted by wrench13

Well all the tunes are played in both OT and BG circles. The versions I am hearing are more BG style, but it sounds like you are still putting them together, so not a lot of personal 'style' yet. Why just the "A" or "B" parts?

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Best is a relative term. The first tune is the best played one - intonation and smooth flow. The last one Leather Britches, has the most potential and 'style' to it, once you get it down really well. Of course thats in my opinion, which is always questionable.

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Originally posted by soppinthegravy

What style would you call this? I was listening to a few different styles of fiddling when I made this recording.

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I would classify all the arrangements as competition or Texas competition style. They noodle around the skeleton of the melody, something that’s a trademark of the style. Keeping the bow moving without pause sets up momentum and it establishes a pattern that makes it easier to play at higher speeds to look flashy. Notes that would be held otherwise are used as an opportunity to fill in with partial scales and arpeggios to keep the energy high and eliminate space between notes that might be considered “dead.”

The first and last tunes seem to contain a nod toward Old Time and/or Appalachian fiddling. The first has an emphasized offbeat, something that has come to be popularly identified as an Appalachian character that harkens back to African music. The tunes are common in both Bluegrass and Old Time. Going by the tunes themselves aside from the arrangements (as if you were reading a set list), I think most would call it an assortment of Old Time tunes. Listening to them, though, I wouldn’t call it Old Time. Perhaps closer to Bluegrass, yet I don’t think it entirely fits that description. If you compare it to Benny Thomasson or a teenage Mark O’Connor, the style sounds much more alike. 

I'd comfortably call it all old time sounding. You'd need the context of other instruments to say any of that is bluegrass or Texas style.