2009 June : Flog (Fiddle Blog)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – Week 1

A great tune from Sam Hacker, a little-known fiddler from West Virginia, recorded about 1947.

Jack of Diamonds

demo by Paul & Steve

NB: right click the red to download and save link (sound file), or click the arrow to play.

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble, Paul Tyler by Paul | June 26, 2009 | Comments (2)

Fiddle 1 (Tues) – Week 1

Welcome to the Flog. Check here early and often.

Here’s some demo recordings of Short’nin’ Bread
(with both A and B parts)

slow

medium

full speed

NB: right click the red to download and save link (sound file), or click the arrow to play.

Filed under: Fiddle 1, Paul Tyler by Paul | June 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2 (Mon) – Week 1

We worked on Liza Jane.

You can find band performances in three speeds on the Hands On CD.

Here are solo fiddle demos . . .

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medium

full speed

NB: right click the red to download and save link (sound file), or click the arrow to play.

Filed under: Fiddle 2, Paul Tyler by Paul | June 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 1(Thurs) Week 7

Hi!

Here’s a recording of Shady Grove for you to play along with….

Graduation is Thursday, yay!

See you then!

Maria

Filed under: Fiddle 1, Maria McCullough by Maria | June 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Global – Week 8

Hi friends!

What a great morning! Thanks for coming out and playing and graduation and for bringing in tunes and thanks for teaching us Tim!

Here is My Cape Breton Home

Judy, I have your prize for you!

Maria

Filed under: Fiddle 4, Maria McCullough, Paul Tyler by Maria | June 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 & 2: our Finnish quadrille

Wow, I just found a great duet version of Prizhan Katrilli on a recording given to me in Tallin, Estonia by Jaan Elgula, who produces country music shows for Estonian state radio. I don’t know if this was a commercially released recording or just something these two guys did. They both played in Jaan’s country band, Justament, but they both are fine traditional fiddlers. Here they are.

Indrek Kalda & Tiit Kikas (click to enlarge)

Vengerick

(I’m guessing at the title, because the handwriting is hard to decipher)

Filed under: Fiddle 2, Fiddle 4, Paul Tyler by Paul | June 11, 2009 | Comments (2)

Fiddle for Kansanmusiikkiopisto in Helsinki

Welcome Finnish friends. Here are links to the tunes we worked on last Monday evening.
For Old Town School folks, Kansanmusiikkiopisto translates as ‘folk music school.’ They’re like us.

To learn more about our visit to Finland, and to hear our 2nd Half with the students at Kansanmusiikkiopisto, visit the Old Town School On the Road blog and scroll to the bottom of Finnish Americana, Part II.

Try this link for the Hands On CD/jukebox. There are tracks there with two speeds for both Waterbound and Goin’ Down to Cairo. This CD featured Colby Maddox on mandolin and Paul Tyler on fiddle, along with two fellow teachers on banjo and guitar.

And here is another demonstration for Goin’ Down to Cairo, two tempos in one sound file.
(Press the arrow to listen, or right click the red title and choose ’save link’ to download.)

NB: This link is now working.

White River Bottoms comes from Lotus Dickey of Orange County, Indiana. You can learn more about him at the Fiddle Club of the World blog. There’s a lot of great stuff there. Help yourself. And I plan to add more from my Nordic trip.

These demonstration recordings were made by Paul Tyler.

slow

medium tempo

full tempo

And to make it easier, here is Lotus playing White River Bottoms

Filed under: Fiddle 3, Paul Tyler by Paul | June 10, 2009 | Comments (2)

Fiddle 4 Global – Week 7

Hi!

Here’s the link for La Cirereta

and……here are your lyrics

(in Catalan)

Un peto mai no fa mal si va de veres
per aixo diuen que els petons i les cireres
despres dun en venen molts. Noia, noia, so no vols;
Noia, si no vaols pols no vagis a l’era

(Chorus) Deixa que et besi, nineta, la cirereta de ta boqueta,
jo mes petons, t’en faria,
que flors tindria cap cirerer

Quan la nit de Sant Joan es arribada
no hi ha noia que no estigui enamorada
si hi ha un jove que la vol es per dir-li n’ella sol
t’ompliria de petons i d’abracades

The chorus in Spanish is:

Deja besarte chiquilla
tus labios rojos
como cerezas
Quiro llevar de tus labios
Miles de amores y de ternesas

Filed under: Fiddle 4, Maria McCullough, Paul Tyler by Maria | June 9, 2009 | Comments (0)