Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 7

Whoa. We almost forgot to do a tune in the key of G.

Jaybird Died with a Whooping Cough

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Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 7

We better do at least one tune in the key of C.

New Money, played by the great Doc Roberts of Richmond, Kentucky

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Fiddle 1 (Tue) – week 7

Working with the “ditty bum” rhythm. The ditty are two pick-up notes starting on the back beat. The “bum” is the long note that falls on the downbeat. The accent is on the “dit-” not the “bum.”

The tune is in D. It’s called Old Molly Hare.

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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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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

A catchy A tune from the Ozarks . . .

Saddle Old Kate, fiddled by Lonnie Roberston
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Fiddle 1 (Tue) – week 6

With the Mississippi Hotdog rhythm, you can play Run, Johnny, Run, a simple, but fulfilling D tune.

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Fiddle 2 (Mon) – week 6

Now, a G tune, Cotton-Eyed Joe.

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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 5

The burning question is

Can You Dance Tobacco Hill? played by Bruce Greene

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Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – weeks 5 & 6

A great Kentucky tune in G, Meriweather

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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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