Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 1
We started out in the key of A with . . .
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graduation and other news
Old-Time Ensemble graduation party is at Paddy O-Splaine’s
(2434 W. Montrose) on Wednesday (Apr 21) at 8pm.
Lots of classes are coming. Here’s a flyer
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Also, Paul Tyler’s classes should check earlier posts for slow versions of tunes that are finally posted, after much travail and perspiration. The list includes Old Greasy Coat, Horse and Buggy-O, Prairie du Rocher Motion, Washington’s March, and John Lover’s Gone.
And a fiddle-filled fun event on friday is this Old-Time Community dance with music by the Fantastic Toe Trippers Orchestra featuring at least seven Old Town School teachers.
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Filed under: General Interest,Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | April 20, 2010 | Comments (0)
Fiddle 1 (Tue) – week 7
It’s time to venture up to the 1st string (aka, the e string). Start with your third finger on the e. When you get really brave you can try using your pinky to hit that optional not in the first lick. Good luck.
And here’s “Do, a Deer”
Filed under: Fiddle 1,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 19, 2010 | Comments (0)
Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tues) – week 7
Another Doc Roberts classic in the key of G
a demonstration
slowly
Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 19, 2010 | Comments (1)
Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 7
From Art Stamper of Hazard and Louisville, Kentucky.
The tune is also available on a County Records CD called Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston
Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 18, 2010 | Comments (0)
Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 7
An unnamed tune from one of the Clerc brothers of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois.
The Indian Creek Delta Boys called it . . .
from the 1977 LP Indian Creek Delta Boys, Vol. 2, reissued on CD by Spring Fed Records
Filed under: Fiddle 3,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 18, 2010 | Comments (0)
tuesday 8pm fiddle 3, elizabeth and steve, whiskey before breakfast
i do believe i left you all in good hands. elizabeth is one of my favorite people in the world.
i am in silver city, N.M.. we are in week two of a concert, dance an workshop tour of the southwest,
and i am having so much fun, met so many nice folks and the scenery is spectacular.
here we are MUSIC
and here i am sillyness ONE sillyness TWO and sillyness THREE.
and of course, here is your tune, whiskey before breakfast. no speakers on this computer so i haven’t listened to it and i’m hoping for the best.
Filed under: Fiddle 3,Steve Rosen by Steve | April 13, 2010 | Comments (0)
Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6
Another equestrian tune. This one from Israel Welch of Mineral County, West Virginia. He played it in D. I shifted it to C, because it just sounds like it belongs there. And I had the name a bit wrong. Note below.
Wild Horse in the Red Brush (Same recording, digitally transposed to the key of C)
Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 8, 2010 | Comments (0)
Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 6
Back to standard tuning and the key of D.
Washington’s March as played by Edden Hammons of Mill Point, West Virginia in 1947
I highly recommended that you purchase this CD from West Virginia University Press.
Washington’s March as played by Burl Hammons (Edden’s nephew ?) of Stilwell, West Virginia around 1970.
Burl’s version shows how closely this tune is related to “Bonaparte’s Retreat.”
a local demonstration . . .
slowly
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 5
Sometimes called “Wild Horse,” sometimes called “Stoney Point,” sometimes “Buck Creek Gals” or “Pigtown Fling,” we’ll call it
Wild Horse at Stoney Point Actually J.W. Day’s 1928 recording was title “Wild Horse or Stoney Point”
3 parts, not 4
Wild Horse by Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers
slightly different 3 parts; combine to make 4
Wild Horse at Stoney Point (slow version)
Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 5, 2010 | Comments (2)
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