Fiddle 4 Twin – Week 1

Here’s You Are My Sunshine by the Fantastic Toe Trippers.

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“Celeya Polka”

The Gu-Achi Fiddlers from the Tohono O’odham reservation in Arizona.

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Fiddle 2 (Tues) – Week 1

When you learn “Soldier’s Joy,” you can call yourself a fiddler . . .

Maria McCullough’s version
It really is Soldier’s Joy (this time)!

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Fiddlin’ John Carson (1925)

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Fiddle 2 (Mon) Week 1- Part 2

Hi!

So… we worked on Golden Slippers yesterday and reviewed Oh Susanna. I’ll post up Golden Slippers later today.

We also worked on using our tuning forks to tune, we’ll do that again next week, too.

The workshop we had with Meghan Lynch was awesome on Sunday, she talked about how knowing the key of a tune and the chords under what you’re playing is really important: so along those lines…we’re playing Golden Slippers in the key of G….we worked on playing the chords (G, D, C)

Here are the words the chords from the Old Town School Songbook….I’ve just included Verse 1 (there’s a lot of words to learn :)

Have fun this week!

GOLDEN SLIPPERS

Verse

Oh my (G) golden slippers are laid away
’cause I don’t ’spect to weart hem till my (D7)wedding day
and my long tailed coat that I loved so well,
I will wear up in the chariot in the (G)morn’
And my long white robe that I bought last June,
I’m goin’ to get changed cause it (D7)fits too soon
and the (D7)old gray horse that I used to ride
I will hitch him to the chariot in the (G)morn

Chorus

(G)Oh them golden slippers, (C)Oh them golden slippers
(D7)Golden slippers I’m goin’ to wear be (G)cause the look so neat
Oh them golden slippers, (C)Oh them golden slippers
(D7)Golden slippers I’m going’ to wear to walk the golden (G)street

Filed under: Fiddle 2, Maria McCullough by Maria | April 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Global Tunes – Week 1

We learned two pieces in cross-tuning: AEAC#

Happy Hollow from Marcus Martin of Swannanoa, North Carolina

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“Cotton-Eyed Joe” from Noah Beavers of Elkville, Illinois

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(Check back later for more links.)

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Fiddle 1 (Tues) – Week 8

In the key of A, “Sail Away Ladies”

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Fiddle 4 Cajun – Week 8

Don Rich, he played with Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, recorded this piece he called . . .

Cajun Fiddle

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Fiddle 1 (Tues) – Week 7

Last week’s tune was “Sourwood Mountain” in the key of A.

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Fiddle 4 Cajun – Week 7

Last week’s tune . . .

J’ai Eté au Ball (I went to the dance) by Dewey Balfa

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Fiddle 3 (Mon) – Week 7

The Cajun national athem . . .

“Jolie Blonde” (aka “Ma Blonde Est Parti”)

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by Dewey Balfa (medium tempo) [link to Smithsonian Global Sound - scroll down to #201]

For more versions of “Jolie Blonde,” check my post for Fiddle 4 Cajun – Week 1

Filed under: Fiddle 3, Paul Tyler by Paul | April 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 1&2 (Mon) Week 7

Hi all!

It’s graduation day tomorrow, yeah!

Fiddle 2, we talked about doing Liza Jane for graduation and Fiddle 1, Oh Susanna. Don’t forget to bring in your own tune for class. :)

The Oh Susanna that we listened to in Fiddle 1 is by The Be Good Tanyas on their Blue Horse Album, another good song by them is The Littlest Birds on Weeds – Music from the Original Series, you can buy both of the songs on iTunes.

We worked on the Pentatonic scale in both classes. The notes we use are 1,2,3,5,6,8 (i.e. in the Key of D it’s D, E, F#, A, B, D—-in the Key of G it’s G, A, B, D, E, G—-in the Key of A it’s A, B, C#, E, F#, A)

Mark’s trick is to think of it as open 1, 2, open 1,3, for the two strings that you use….. (pretty cool!)

I went and saw Ulele last night and Leina was awesome! The whole band was awesome, what a great sound, it made me wanna’ DANCE!

Jean, we’ll miss you, have fun in France and we’ll see you when you get back!

Love,

Maria :)

Filed under: Fiddle 1, Fiddle 2, Maria McCullough by Maria | April 19, 2009 | Comments (0)


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