Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 4
Frank Jenkins of Dacosta Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters recorded this in Richmond, Indiana in 1928 as a fiddle solo.
Wandering Boy in G
In the 1990s, it became popular as a banjo solo. Mike Seeger’s version is in C.
We’ll do it as a string band piece in D
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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 4
A simple, but great A tune. Sourwood Mountain
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Fiddle 4 Cajun (Tue) – week 4
A standard today. You can dance a two-step to this. Maybe a jitterbug as well.
It’s in A on the fiddle. But your guitarist has to play it in G. Remember? Because
you’re tuned down.
Lake Arthur Stomp
Recorded by Miller’s Merrymakers in 1937
medium tempo in standard tuning
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Fiddle 3 Thursday-Old Baldy Kicking Up
Hi Fiddle 3-
Here is a link to Old Baldy Kicking Up. Right click on the link to download, or click on the player to listen.
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Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 4
(O)Possum in the Well is a fairly simple D-tune made up by banjoist extraordinaire, Randy Marmouze of Greene County, Indiana. Should bounce along. A couple of well-placed slurs help. One passage full of shuffles in the B part.
Demonstration of shuffle bowing to be added later.
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Growling Grumbling – fast
Hi Thursday Fiddle 3-
Here is Growling Grumbling at full speed. Right click on the link to download, or use the player posted here to listen.
Growling Grumbling, full speed
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Growling Grumbling-Slow
Hi Thursday Fiddle 3-
Here is Growling Grumbling slow. Right click on the link to download or use the player posted right here to listen.
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Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3
Mike Seeger was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. The Ramblers almost single-handedly passed the love of old-time music on to the boomer generation. The explosion that followed is history. Really.
The Ramblers and Mike Seeger introduced me to 1920s string bands like the Carter Brothers $ Son.
Played by PT
slowly
[The medium tempo version didn't take. I'll try again tomorrow.]
Mike Seeger was also a careful and insightful scholar and a complete gentleman. One of my favorite musical experiences was sharing the stage and band stand with him at a folk music camp in Wisconsin in 1997.
Thanks Mike.
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Fiddle 4 Cajun (Tue) – week 3
La Valse de Gran Bois is a waltz I learned from Raymond Francois over 25 years ago. I have found no recordings of the tune. This is a different tune than one with the same name played by the Balfa Brothers.
The first time through is the chordal skeleton of the tune. In the second time through, I added pickups to each phrase. We’ll learn those next week, plus how to embellish the basic melody.
medium tempo/ low-tuned fiddle
Here it is in standard tuning with more shape to the melody.
medium tempo/ standard-tuned fiddle
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Fiddle 2 (Tues) – week 3
Still in the key of A, Liza Jane
Our version of “Liza Jane,” and Old Town School favorite, came from J.P. Fraley of Maysville, Kentucky. His first LP was repacked into a Rounder Records CD, “Wild Rose of the Mountains.”
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