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Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – week 6

A lot of review, plus we started on one new tune . . .

Minuet after Matti Haudanmaa by Arto Järvelä, 2009

With any luck, Arto will drop in on our class next week. Maybe we can learn a harmony part from him.

We’ll also try his arrangement of Indian Corn as a polska.
Intianimaissi by Arto Järvelä, 2009

Don’t forget that Arto, along with the band Kaivama, will be performing next week at World Music Wednesday.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | June 1, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – weeks 5&6

Two tunes in preparation for a possible visit from our Finnish friend, Arto Järvelä on June 7. Arto will be performing at World Music Wednesdays on 8 and doing a workshop on June 18.

notation for Hast Schottische & the 3 tunes in this post

(We’ll do this one in week 6)
Raha polska by Erkki Metsapelto

Raha polska by Arto Jarvela

When Arto was here in 2009, we taught Indian Corn to a Fiddle 3 class. Here is the basic tune and Arto’s harmony (taught in week 5).

Indian Corn melody medium tempo

Indian Corn harmony (melody added), slow, then fast

And here is how Arto changed Indian Corn from a hoedown to a Finnish polska (3/4 time).

Intiaanimaissi

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 24, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Mon) – weeks 4&5

Indian Corn (was Ol Woodard’s Piece) by Stephanie Coleman, Chirps Smith & P. Tyler

Washington’s March by Edn Hammons, 1947

Washington’s March medium

more recordings of both pieces can be found in the Tune Archive

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 24, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – week 4

Lonnie Polka voices (melody, harmony, melody)

Hast Schottische voices (melody, harmony, melody)

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 23, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – week 3

Two Gu-Achi tunes! Lonnie Polka and Celeya Polka. Here is the notation for both high and low parts.

Celeya Polka by the Gu-Achi Fiddlers

both voices medium tempo duet with Maria McCullough

And we started learning the harmony to Hast Schottis. I will post it once I figure out Audacity.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 11, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Mon) – week 3

We spent the whole class period on My Baby Loves Short’nin’ Bread. It’s a 4 part tune in the key of G. The form is A-A-B-C-C’-D. (C’ involves big variations from C. But they’re still basically the same, kinda.)

This earlier post had source versions of the tune.

Short’nin’ Bread slow

medium tempo

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 11, 2011 | Comments (0)