Flog (Fiddle Blog)

Colby’s Fiddle 1, Tuesdays @ 6:30 January ’12

Hi Fiddle 1-
Here are some recordings of the tunes that we are doing in class. Click on the play button to hear them or right click on the titles to download them.
-Colby

D Scale

Short’nin Bread-Slow

Short’nin Bread-Medium

Short’nin Bread-Full

Camptown Races – plain

Camptown Races – shuffled

Cripple Creek-Slow/Fast

Cripple Creek – Tommy Jarrell

Filed under: Class,Colby Maddox,Fiddle 1 by Colby | January 7, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2 Rep, December 5, 2011

Hi!

Next week is graduation. In the Monday class, we’re going to play Dancing Bear, in the Thursday Class, we’re going to play Will the Circle Be Unbroken.

Here are some links for Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken:

http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/wildwoodflower3385.mp3

http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/willthecirclebeunbroken3265.mp3

Have a happy Monday!

Maria

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Maria McCullough by Maria | December 5, 2011 | Comments (0)

November 28, 2011 – Fiddle 2 Rep

Hi!

I’m finally doing some catch up!

Kerry shared this video and said this teacher has a really good way of explaining fiddle chords. Thanks Kerry!

We worked on Paradise by John Prine this morning (it’s one of the Songs of the Session). Here’s a video my friend Jason shared… it has some pictures that give the tune some neat context. You can practice along with the video, it’s in the key of D. I bought John Prine singing it on iTunes this morning.

Other tunes we’ve worked on:

MONDAY

-Inchapikua (G) we’ll learn the harmony next week
-Wildwood Flower (C)
-Black Eyed Susie (D)
-Dancing Bear (Em)

THURSDAY

-Molly Put the Kettle (check out Steve Rosen playing this tune on the tune archive)
-Rochester Schottische, http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/rochesterschottische8488.mp3

Catherine brought in Rochester Schottische a couple of weeks ago. The recording is a version of me playing it from a chart in Steve’s class. Pretty neat tune!

Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you at Open House Friday, December 2nd!

http://www.oldtownschool.org/classes/firstfriday/

Maria

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Maria McCullough by Maria | November 28, 2011 | Comments (0)

November 22, 2011, Fiddle 2 Rep

Hi!

I’m so behind on this blog right now. I’ll be catching up tomorrow, but I thought in the meantime, some of you might like to learn Silent Night…

I recorded it for some of my private lesson students and thought that you might like it, too!

http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/silentnight3887.mp3

See you soon!

Maria

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Maria McCullough by Maria | November 22, 2011 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 4

We sang a serious song about agricultural misfortune. From Judy Canova and the Canova Family for the 99%, as they were in the 1930s.

Whoa Back, Buck played by the Volo Bogtrotters

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | November 22, 2011 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3

Pull Back Jig played by Clyde Davenport of Monticello, Kentucky

Meriweather fiddle only

medium tempo

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | November 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 1 & 2

Log Chain played by Lonnie Seymour of Chillicothe, Ohio

Log Chain Another recording by Mr. Seymour, with Tony Ellis on banjo

And here you’ll find another version (slow and fast), played by Lynn Frederick for the Fiddle Club of the World.

A tune from George Coe’s Album of Music for the Violin, 1876. It’s not really a jig, except that it’s for a minstrel stage dance.

Pull Back Jig slower, then faster on banjo & fiddle

Pull Back Jig fiddle only

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | November 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

November 8, 2011 – Fiddle 2 Rep

Hi!

This week we worked on Black Eyed Suzy, which can be found in the Kids’ Section of the Tune Archive here:

http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/kids.html

We also started a tune called Inchapikua, here is a link:

http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/inchapikua%28lasmariposas%298536.mp3

Inchapikua is part of a group of tunes that are used to represent the fishermen who cast their butterfly nets early in the morning. The tune comes from the state of Michoacán and is a pirecua. A pirecua is a tune that is syncopated.

Happy fiddlin’!

Maria

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Maria McCullough,Uncategorized by Maria | November 8, 2011 | Comments (0)