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wednesday 630 fiddle 2 week 2 needlecase in D

Steve — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:50:28 +0000

medium speed

slow

Playing and Downloading

Gregg Tager — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:24 +0000

Here are some wonderful instructions about how to listen to and manage the tunes you hear. Thanks for the info, Paul!

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What happens when you click on a tune link depends on what web browser you use and how you have it set to handle .mp3 files.

Here’s what I’ve learned about Firefox, my browser of choice. I rely on iTunes to manage music files. Unfortunately, iTunes is bundled with Quicktime, which insinuates itself into Firefox as the default plug-in for all sorts of media files. In Firefox, Quicktime will not play more than a few seconds of a tune. So I changed my Firefox settings.

Firefox for Windows instructions: click these in order
Tools (menu bar)
Options (bottom of the menu)
Content (tab or button)
File Types (box) with Manage (button)
Search for or scroll down to find MP3 (”MPEG Layer 3 Audio”)
Change Action (button)
Save to computer (check box)

Firefox for Mac suggestions
To download, one of these should work.
right-click link, or
hold down Apple and click link, or
hold down Alt-Option and click link

You can also pick another music program as a default to open mp3 files.
If you’re smarter than me you can install another plug-in to be the default.

Quicktime works better with Internet Explorer, but I don’t care to use that browser.

If anyone has any advice for other browsers and platforms, please share it with the rest of the Fiddle Blog.

Good Luck.

Paul

FIDDLE 3 tuesday 8PM, (wrongly named) french canadien tune in G

Steve — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:49:15 +0000

i will find out what the real title is, but it is NOT the newlyweds reel, though there are similarities.
meduim

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Early Country Ensemble – weeks 1 & 1

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:31:29 +0000

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

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Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 2

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:25:46 +0000

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

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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:51:28 +0000

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.

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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

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Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 1

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:13:07 +0000

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 . . .

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Four String Improv-Kitchen Gal

Colby — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:41:48 +0000

Hi Four Stringers-
Here is Kitchen Gal. In both of these recordings I play the whole tune at a medium speed and then play the parts slowly on the second pass. Enjoy.
-Colby

Kitchen Gal-Fiddle

Kitchen Gal-Mandolin

wednesday, 6 30, fiddle 2, doctor doctor

Steve — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:56:58 +0000

“One event that will be watched closely is the National Sweetheart Pageant. Since 1952 the pageant winner has been selected to go on and compete in the Miss America Pageant. In the pageant’s history, five winners have won the crown of Miss America.”
the corn festival is not til end of summer, so meantime, we play fiddle.
attached is a slow and fast version of “doctor, doctor”. the second time through the slow version I add the slurs.
fast, for your listening pleasure

slow fer larnin’

famous hoopestonites….”Marie Layden Klein, reigning track queen, local hero, cougar”.

tuesday 8PM fiddle 3 molly put the kettle on

Steve — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:35:05 +0000

welcome to new and returning students this new session. today we learned
a version of molly put the kettle on. we don’t usually get all technical the first day of fiddle 3, but your enquiring minds wanted to know, so theres a lot of stuff packed into this tune.
first version played med-fast. just listen, get the tune rolling around in your head, feel the rhythm.
second version slower, first time through, simple, second time with slurs, double stops and syncopations.

for your dining and dancing pleasure

slow and informationy