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Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 5

My version of a classic tune in A. Be prepared to end the A part like the B part when playing with others. But I like this way more better.

Cripple Creek at medium tempo

Cripple Creek slowly

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I learned this tune from Chirps Smith of the Volo Bogtrotters. He learned it from Garry Harrison of Charleston, Illinois, who learned it from Pauline McGinnis is a nursing home in Vienna, Illinois in 1977. She learned it from her grandfather. I was told she whistled it to him. Another report is that she played it on the piano. The truth is out there.

Walk Old Shoe, Heel Come a-Dragging by the Volo Bogtrotters

slow, medium, fast

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Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | March 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 5

A fun tune in G, with more bow rocking.

Cotton-Eyed Joe, short version at medium tempo

Cotton-Eyed Joe, long version, slower

lyrics in a pdf file

Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | February 8, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 5

You got started on Ida Red the week I was gone. So we worked on a big kid’s version of the tune. Something like this . . .

Ida Red by Jim Bowles of Monroe County, Kentucky, circa 1975

Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | June 1, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 3

A fine D tune . . .

Walk Old Shoe, Heel Come a_Draggin’ by the Volo Bogtrotters, 1988.

Walk Old Shoe, Heel Come a_Draggin’ three tempos

Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 15, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – weeks 1 & 2

We started with Cripple Creek in A. This earlier recording is different from the way we learned it in class by a note here and there. But still the exact same tune. Really.

medium tempo

Then we did a 3-part tune in A, Coming Through the Rye, in which the A part sounds like Cripple Creek (and the C part sounds like Bull at the Wagon).
Coming Through the Rye by Lyman Enloe of Kansas City

played slowly

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Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 7

Another tune in the key of G, The Girl I Left Behind

slow

medium tempo

pretty fast

Plus, you don’t want to miss Bruce Greene at the Fiddle Club of the World this Friday (4/15) at the Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln) at 8:30.

Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 13, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 6

Cotton-Eyed Joe, a classic, is sometimes played with a longer A part, with a tail that is a repeat of the second phrase. Perhaps we owe that version to . . .

Cotton-Eyed Joe played by Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, circa 1940

slow

medium tempo

full speed

Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 10, 2011 | Comments (0)