TUESDAY 8PM, fiddle 3, squirrel hunters and mary wants a lover

two tunes this week

squirrel hunters, slow

medium, with guitar, mandolin and cello guitar, done by me on the computer, which explains the screechy quality.

mary wants a lover.
a slight change to the B part….second time slightly different than first time.
mary wants a lover A part slow

mary wants a lover B part slow

mary wants a lover, from the foghorn stringband

you can get their awesome CDs at the old town school store or
FOGHORN STRINGBAND WEBSITE

by the way and FYI….the name of the french canadien tune we did is “gigue de terrabonne”.

Filed under: Fiddle 3, Steve Rosen, Uncategorized by Steve | March 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 3

A couple of tunes with some nice bow-rocking/shuffle pattern opportunities. Both are from John Salyer.

Jack Wilson in D

[under construction]
played slow

medium tempo

The Speed of the Plow in A (cross-tuning)

[under construction]
played slow

Filed under: Fiddle 4, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 2

Charlie Acuff called it the “Old Yellow Dog went trottin’ through the meetin’ house.” But the tune dates back to the mid-1800s and was known variously as “The Old Gray Horse came tearin’ through the wilderness” and as a campaign song, “Old Abe Lincoln came tearin’ outa the wilderness.”

Charlie Acuff plays Old Yellow Dog, with John Harford on the banjo.

[under construction]
played slow

medium tempo

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 2

We bravely made our way to the key of C. (Hey, this is Fiddle 4).

Our tune comes from John Salyer, a fabulous fiddler from eastern Kentucky who made a bunch of home recordings in the early 1940s. He traveled around the entire planet after being discharged from the army in the Phillipines. He came to Chicago for the World’s Fair and played for dances in a downtown hotel. He went back to Kentucky where he farmed and taught school. He never made any commercial records.

Indian Ate a Woodchuck

played slow

medium tempo

Filed under: Fiddle 4, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

wednesday 630 fiddle 2 week 2 needlecase in D

medium speed

slow

Filed under: Fiddle 2, Steve Rosen by Steve | March 12, 2010 | Comments (0)

FIDDLE 3 tuesday 8PM, gigue de terrabonne in G

gigue de terrabonne (NOT newlyweds reel)

meduim

slow

Filed under: Fiddle 3, Steve Rosen by Steve | March 11, 2010 | Comments (0)

Early Country Ensemble – weeks 1 & 1

Let’s see if we can do this . . .

Week 1 we did

Down on the Banks of the Ohio by the Blue Sky Boys, 1936

Here’s one to help get ready for Week 2
Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South by Dacosta Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters, 1928

[click on the arrow to play or right click on the highlight to download and save]

Filed under: Paul Tyler by Paul | March 9, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 2

Staying with the Fuzzy Mountain String Band, a group from Chapel Hill-Durham, North Carolina that was at the forefront of the old-time music revival of the 1970s. Here’s a tune in D . . .

Green Willis

slow

slow

Filed under: Fiddle 3, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

Perhaps we’ll focus on steeds and other hoofed creatures this session. Starting out in the key of A . . .

Wild Horse as played by Hector Phillips of Petersburg, Indiana in 1980.

slow

medium

Plus, a bonus tune. It is almost identical to Hector’s “Wild Horse”
(but still, there’s a difference).

Bell Cow, played by Harvey “Pappy” Taylor of Effingham, Illinois.

I learned the tune from Garry Harrison and the Indian Creek Delta Boys

medium

[click on the arrow to play or right click on the highlight to download and save]

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble, Paul Tyler, Steve Rosen by Paul | March 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 1

Doc Roberts of Richmond, Kentucky is in the top five of my list of favorite fiddlers. Born in 1897, he was christened Dock Phil in honor of the man of medicine who delivered him. Many of the tunes he recorded between 1924 and 1934 were learned from Owen Walker, a local African-American fiddler.

Here’s Brickyard Joe from 1928.

The tune demonstrated, with some shuffle bowing . . .

slow

medium

[click on the arrow to play or right click on the highlight to download and save]

Filed under: Fiddle 4, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 8, 2010 | Comments (0)


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