The Green Grass Grows All Around

Hi!

We’ve been working on the Green Grass Grows All Around in Fiddle 3 and Fiddle 3 Rep.

Here’s a great video Jonas showed us in class:

Here’s a recording from class, it’ll be up on the Tune Archive soon, too!

http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/thegreengrassgrowsallaround7169.mp3

Maria :)

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Kids,Maria McCullough by Maria | March 27, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – week 3

A Lotus Dickey tune. One he learned from “jig and reel book” he and his brother bought through the Sears Roebuck catalog back in the 1920s.

Oyster River Hornpipe, Lotus Dickey of Paoli, Indiana

NB: This recording is not in the tune archive, but on my website, drdosido.net.
Here’s a link to a page full of Lotus Dickey tunes, with more to come.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | March 22, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 2&3

In week 3 we learned a tune from the Leake County Revelers, a Mississippi string band that recorded in the 1920s. Plus, we did Old Dan Tucker, using Steve’s distinctive melody. Compare to the 1920s recording below by Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters.

Been to the East, Been to the West (I’ve been to Alabama)

Old Dan Tucker

In week 2, we learned Arrington’s Breakdown, as played by the Volo Bogtrotters
Arrington’s Breakdown, medium tempo by Paul & Steve

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | March 22, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

“Chase the Squirrel” is a fine D tune, perhaps related to some others, such as “Cricket on the Hearth,” that I learned from a home recording of Frank Wisehart of Frankfort, Indiana. The recording below is by the Volo Bogtrotters with myself and Chirps Smith on fiddle. We recorded the tune as a tag to a song. This recording is the tune only.

Chase the Squirrel

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Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | March 22, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Thu) – week 1

I learned this tune from Chirps Smith of the Volo Bogtrotters. He learned it from Garry Harrison of Charleston, Illinois, who learned it from Pauline McGinnis is a nursing home in Vienna, Illinois in 1977. She learned it from her grandfather. I was told she whistled it to him. Another report is that she played it on the piano. The truth is out there.

Walk Old Shoe, Heel Come a-Dragging by the Volo Bogtrotters

slow, medium, fast

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Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | March 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – week 1

Here’s a tune in G we should all be playing more. We got it from Chirps Smith, who learned it from Garry Harrison, who collected it from Howard Sims of Modesto, Illinois some 30 years ago. The recording below is by the Volo Bogtrotters with Chirps Smith and Fred Campeau on fiddle.

Don’t Mind the Weather So the Wind Don’t Blow

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Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | March 8, 2012 | Comments (1)

Fiddle 3 (Sun) – week 6

An original tune from the great Cajun fiddler, Dewey Balfa.

La Reel de Joi [sic]

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Paul Tyler by Paul | February 23, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

You run your G-string up to A, your D-string up to E. If you’re a fiddler.

Lost Indian by Bob Holt of Ava, Missouri

And here are the Volo Bogtrotters playing Lost Indian with the fiddle tuned to GDGB.
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Don’t forget the square dance this Friday (2/17) with the Volos in Old Town School East.

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | February 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 1 (Sun) – weeks 4 & 5

First of all, I made corrections to the Abc notation tutorial.

Oh Susanna at medium tempo

There are slow and fast versions downloadable on the Tune Archive.

Black-Eyed Susie slow

Click the arrows to play. Right click the colored titles to download and save link.

Filed under: Fiddle 1,Paul Tyler by Paul | February 13, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 (Mon) – week 6

Slightly different from the way we learned it in class . . .

That’s My Rabbit, My Dog Caught played by Steve Rosen, slowly

Draper Walter & Family recorded the tune in 1932 for Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, their home town. That old 78 is available as a download on Amazon.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | February 13, 2012 | Comments (0)


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