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Fiddle 3 (Thu & Sun) – week 2

Paul — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:31:40 +0000

A wealth of rushes and peppers from the Tune Archive . . .

Rush and the Pepper by Jesse James Abbott of Toledo, Illinois, circa 1975

Rush and the Pepper by Garry Harrison, 1996

Fiddle 3 – more week 1

Paul — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:28:20 +0000

I almost forgot. On Thursday night, we started in on a second tune toward the end of class. We’ll do more with it this week. And I will introduce to the Sunday class this week as well. It’s the melody of an old song recorded by the Pickard Family back in the late 1920s (near the time they were on the radio in Chicago): Bye-Bye My Honey, I’m Gone.

Bye-Bye My Honey, I’m Gone Lotus Dickey of Paoli, Indiana

slow banjo & fiddle duet

kinda fast, sorta

Fiddle 3 (Thu & Sun) – week 1

Paul — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:44:41 +0000

A song that became a dance tune. (Or, who knows, maybe it’s a dance tune that became a song.) In the key of A, but using the notes of the D scale.

Here it is on banjo . . .

Oh, My Little Darling Thadeus Willingham of Gulfport, Mississippi, 1939

and as a string band piece . . .

Oh, My Little Darling Volo Bogtrotters, circa 1986

The Green Grass Grows All Around

Maria — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:07:41 +0000

Hi!

We’ve been working on the Green Grass Grows All Around in Fiddle 3 and Fiddle 3 Rep.

Here’s a great video Jonas showed us in class:

Here’s a recording from class, it’ll be up on the Tune Archive soon, too!

http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/thegreengrassgrowsallaround7169.mp3

Maria

Fiddle 3 (Sun) – week 6

Paul — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:00:24 +0000

An original tune from the great Cajun fiddler, Dewey Balfa.

La Reel de Joi [sic]

Fiddle 3 (Sun) – week 5

Paul — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:15:32 +0000

Tohono O’odham fiddling is some of the most fun. Great dance music. Everybody polka.

Lonnie Polka by the Gu’Achi Fiddlers of the Tohono O’odham nation

One of their albums is still available on CD from Canyon Records. (Click the name)

Fiddle 3, February 13, 2011

Maria — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:22:17 +0000

Hi!

Today we reviewed Arkansas Traveler, you can listen to it on the Tune Archive, Paul put a nice version of Lee Stoneking playing it.

We also worked on Cripple Creek, listen to Tommy Jarrell and Kyle Creed playing it for a source recording and you can listen to Danny Miller’s slow version to hear how we’re doing it in class.

We tried Cripple Creek in Standard Tuning (G, D, A, E) and then we also tried it in Cross A or Sawmill Tuning (A, E, A, E)

Next week we’ll try it in G

Have a nice time playing this week!

Maria

Fiddle 3 (Sun) – week 4

Paul — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:59:50 +0000

A classic in D, the Arkansas Traveler. This version is close to how I taught the tune. More great ideas for variations can be found on the version Colby posted in the Tune Archive.

Arkansas Traveler by Lee Stoneking from Missouri

Fiddle 3 – January 30, 2012

Maria — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:39:01 +0000

Hi!

It was good to see everyone last week, you all sounded great on Paddy on the Handcar, Paul is going to teach some more bowing next week.

We worked on the A MINOR pentatonic which is: A, C D E G A (we used it in Cross Road Blues)

The A MAJOR pentatonic is: A B C# D E F# A

You can learn more about Cross Road Blues and listen to it here:

http://oldtownschool.org/classes/songs/session11_6.html

We also went over Dancing Bear in Em

you can find it on the Kids’ Tune Archive, oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/kids and download the music in Kids’ Fiddle Book 3.

We talked a bit about ABC notation (thanks for your help Kerry), if you have questions, Paul has posted a PDF called “ABC Notation for Fiddle Tunes” at the top of the Tune Archive

oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun

Hopefully I’ll see you at Open House Friday on February 10

Maria

Fiddle 3 (Sun) – weeks 2 & 3

Paul — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:44:44 +0000

We worked on the shuffle bow pattern–long, short short, or slur, saw saw–on this G tune
Green Fields of America, by Lotus Dickey of Orange County, Indiana

There are also slow and medium tempo demo versions of Green Fields of America in the Tune Archive.

Our first tune in the key of C is a bit challenging.
Old Joe by Bob Walters of Tekemah, Nebraska