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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) -week 5

An English tune in D . . .

Albert Farmer’s Bonfire Tune played The Bismarks

slow

medium tempo

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Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 4

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

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Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 3

A Cajun tune, Let’s go to Lafayette . . .

Allons a Lafayette fiddled by Hector Duhon with Octa Clark on Accordion, circa 1980

medium tempo (with more notes on subsequent repeats)

Also, my version (one of my versions) of Sourwood Mountain

medium tempo

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Fiddle 2 (Tue & Thu) – week 2

Liza Jane played by J.P. Fraley of Maysville, Kentucky, circa 1976

slow

medium tempo

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