http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:50:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en medium speed [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/needlecase8121.mp3] slow [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/needlecase8572.mp3] http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/12/wednesday-630-fiddle-2-week-2-needlecase-in-d/ Here are some wonderful instructions about how to listen to and manage the tunes you hear.  Thanks for the info, Paul! ***** 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 ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/12/playing-and-downloading/ i will find out what the real title is, but it is NOT the newlyweds reel, though there are similarities. meduim [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/frenchcanadientune6835.mp3] slow [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/frenchcanadientune3220.mp3] http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/11/fiddle-3-tuesday-8pm-wrongly-named-french-canadien-tune-in-g/ 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 [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/banksoftheohio9640.mp3] 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 [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/sweetsunnysouth2843.mp3] [click on the arrow to ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/09/early-country-ensemble-weeks-1-1/ 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 [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/greenwillis7895.mp3] slow [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/greenwillis6056.mp3] slow [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/greenwillis7484.mp3] http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/08/fiddle-3-mon-week-2-3/ 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. [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/wildhorse7102.mp3] slow [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/wildhorse1300.mp3] medium [audio:http://oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/wildhorse3423.mp3] Plus, a bonus tune. It is almost identical to Hector's "Wild Horse" (but still, there's a ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/08/old-time-ensemble-wed-week-1-5/ 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 ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/08/fiddle-4-old-time-tue-week-1/ 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 http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/07/four-string-improv-kitchen-gal/ "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 ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/04/wednesday-6-30-fiddle-2-doctor-doctor/ 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 ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddle/2010/03/03/tuesday-8pm-fiddle-3-molly-put-the-kettle-on/