Fiddle 3 (Mon) – Week 4

It’s time to shuffle . . .

ditty bum ditty bum (saw saw slur___ saw saw slur ____)
bum = the downbeat (long note or slur two short ones)
dit = the backbeat (accent it)

Called variously the single shuffle, the country shuffle or the Nashville shuffle.

Dickey’s Discovery-White River Bottoms
by Paul Tyler, Michael Miles & Barbara Silverman, 1988
from an album featuring Old Town School of Folk Music faculty

Demonstration recordings:

White River Bottoms slow

White River Bottoms medium

White River Bottoms full

And here’s a link to a post on the Fiddle Club of the World blog that contains a recording of “White River Bottoms” (and several other tunes) as played by Lotus Dickey of Orange County, Indiana.

Shuffle off.

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Paul Tyler by Paul | March 23, 2009 | Comments (0)


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