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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)

Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – week 2

Lonnie Polka by the Gu-Achi Fiddlers (composed by Elliott Johnson)

Here are the separate voices
medium tempo
[under construction]

and notation

We also learned the melody of . . .
Hast Schottis, played by Mary Allsopp

We’ll learn the harmony next week.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 8, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Monday) – week 2

A couple of tunes for the Fiddle Club of the World square & ceilidh dance . . .

Ten Cents by Chirps Smith

Who’ll Cut the Britches?, 1929 (3 parts) by Genevieve Koester

Plus a slower recording of last week’s tune
Ragtime Annie medium tempo

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | May 7, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Mon) – weeks 1 & 2

We started the session with a standard in D: Ragtime Annie. It goes like this.

Eck Robertson, 1929 (3 parts)

Corn Cob Crushers, circa 1930 (2 parts)

Next week we’ll learn a four part version of (My Baby Loves) Shortening Bread in G

Doc Roberts, 1931

James Bryan, 1983 (who is the 2nd fiddler?)

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 27, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – week 1

A tune from Serbia, named for a Slavic bagpipe, so I guess it must have been a bagpipe tune.

Gajda

melody first, then harmony, then a duet by Maria & Paul

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 27, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 7

We stayed in ADAD tuning (fourth-fifth-fourth), mostly ’cause it sounds so good.

Ssnake Chapman’s Tune slow

Snake Chapman’s Tune medium aka Go Home with the Girls in the Morning

Harrison’s Folly slow

Harrison’s Folly 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. Also, Bruce will be giving a workshop on Eastern Kentucky fiddle tunes on Saturday at the Old Town School. Click here to register.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 13, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 6

We learned Cherokee Shuffle in high bass cross tuning (ADAE). And then decided to tune the E string down as well (ADAD). Like this . . .

starts slow, ends medium

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | April 10, 2011 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 5

A French-Canadian tune, in honor of our visitor from Quebec, Hera Menard. Hope she comes to our class some time. Mr. Bouchard played it possibly in A. We’re doing it in G. Just ’cause we want to.

Reel des Eboulements played by Joseph Bouchard from Pointe-au-Pic, QB

played slow

medium tempo

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | March 30, 2011 | Comments (0)