Fiddle 2 (Mon) – week 7

Another G tune, another classic Golden Slippers.

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Note: this version has the rare 3rd part that we did not learn.

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Fiddle 2 (Mon) – week 6

Now, a G tune, Cotton-Eyed Joe.

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Fiddle 2 (Mon) – week 5

A tune in A modal (in this case, A modal means use notes from the G scale, but guitar chords in A), the well known and much loved Cluck Old Hen.

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full speed Cluck Old Hen

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Fiddle 2 (Mon) – weeks 4 & 5

Let’s get after Liza Jane. Check out the slow, medium and fast versions on the Hands On CD. (The CD can also be heard free on the Old Town School online jukebox. There’s a link on the Fiddle Page.)

Or here, for fiddle only . . .

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Fiddle 2 (Mon) – week 2

We started on Sourwood Mountain in A. I’ve changed the way I teach it based on how Maria McCullough taught it to my daughter. Hear and see for yourself.

This is how Walter Hojka, who also teaches in the kids fiddle program, plays it.
Sourwood Mountain slow

Here’s the way I used to teach it . . .
medium tempo

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Fiddle 2 (Mon) – week 1

We reviewed the A part of Boil Them Cabbage Down and learned the B part in easier and more complicated versions. It’s in the key of A. Here are some samples . . .

Boil Them Cabbage slow

medium tempo

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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 6

Here’s some Cindy for you. In the key of A

Volo Bogtrotters

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full speed

Don’t forget Fiddlepalooza next Tuesday. It starts right after our class.

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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 5

In the key of D, Spotted Pony
Here it is, played wonderfully by Maria . . .

slow pony

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And here it is from 1972, played by Pete McMahan of Columbia, Missouri.
Spotted Pony

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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 4

Another tune in the key of G. (Key of G? Sup with that? Actually what’s down or low?*)

Going Down to Cairo two speeds

It’s also on the Hands On CD and on Songbook 2/3 CD, both produced here at the Old Town School.

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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 3

The Key of G

Buffalo Gals by Tommy Jackson, 1950s

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faster

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