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Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 5

Paul — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:28:47 +0000

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

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 1

Paul — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:16:40 +0000

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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Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 5

Paul — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:03:04 +0000

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

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 5

Paul — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:22:05 +0000

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

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 3

Paul — Sun, 15 May 2011 14:58:27 +0000

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

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – weeks 1 & 2

Paul — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:38:30 +0000

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

Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 7

Paul — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:00:28 +0000

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.

Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 6

Paul — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:24:07 +0000

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

Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) -week 5

Paul — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:32:56 +0000

An English tune in D . . .

Albert Farmer’s Bonfire Tune played The Bismarks

slow

medium tempo

Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 4

Paul — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:14:22 +0000

Another tune in A:

Little Dutch Girl by Earl Collins, circa 1976

slow (with a few more notes than what was taught)

banjo-fiddle duet