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Originally posted by groundhogpeggy

What tunes are we playing today? Nothing...lol...I' gotta do some mowing...but my thoughts are going back to a tune that I sorta think maybe I made up...could be original...but it sounds so familiar to me...I put it on youtube a while back sort of as a stream of consciousness type thing, just kind of recording as I made it up...it was a cold night, if I'm remembering right, and I called it "Cold Night Waltz." But here lately I've been gazing up into the treetops on morning doggie walks in the woods, and it kept coming to mind this morning so I was inspired enough to take some photos of tree tops and if I get the chance to play it soon (won't be today, tomorrow, or ... well hopefully it'll be sometime before I forget it again) I might use those photos in my youtube recording and call it the "Treetop Waltz." Lol...but I can never know if something that hits me and I play it ... if it's original or if it's some tune or parts of tune(s) I've heard and they're just jumbled up somewhere in my poor ol' brain. Anyway...nobody called me on it when I said it was original the other time I recorded it, so I might try again, and try to make it a smoother, better recording, since after it simmering on the back burners of my mind for several months, I storta have a better idea of how it goes. So, one of these days...gonna try it again...this time, Groundhog's Treetop Waltz. But then again, maybe I wont' get to it at all, ever...lol. How's that for commitment...right now, it's on to the mowing!

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This is how I feel about nearly all waltzes, they are so familiar in their movement...

Indeed, there's only so much can go into a Waltz: Hook, hook, turnaround, hook. In 3/4 time, of course.

I started with the idea of saving loops. This morphed into making backing tracks. Homemade of course. The usual Big Mamu, Chinese Breakdown, 12 bar blues.

According to Bobby Bare, and appropriate for this time of year: the only Christian football waltz--

"Drop-kick me Jesus Thru the Goal-posts of Life"

A novelty number we play at gigs this time every year with renewed hope, yet the Hogs subsequently fail us every time...

If we're talking about strictly fiddle tunes:

set with Paddy on the Turnpike, then

John Cheap the Chapman--in Gm

very good bow exercises, those.

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Originally posted by Flat_the_3rd_n7th

If we're talking about strictly fiddle tunes:

set with Paddy on the Turnpike, then

John Cheap the Chapman--in Gm

very good bow exercises, those.

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I love Paddy on the Turnpike! One of my favorite tunes in any genre.

Learned to play & sing Visions of Mother, and Angel Bands, before bedtime.

(This is out of shear laziness. So I don't have to pack anything but a fiddle to the jam)

First 4 tunes from the Dwight Lamb, Jensen & Bugge album Live in Denmark 2010.

Quadrille (trekant 1), Two Part Waltz, Polka 1, and Tomorrow I wed, but who shall I marry.

Interesting stuff I was introduced to by Bill Peterson from South Dakota up at the Bluff Country Gathering a few years back. Also fun to play Dwight Lamb's Opposite Polka and one of his Schottische's which don't seem to ever have names.

Red Haired Boy!! I think I'm playing all the right notes at a very slow speed. Able to throw in a little bit of Georgia Bow on the B part. It's amazing how the mood changes and the fire builds when a tune comes together. Cheers!

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Originally posted by pmiller510

First 4 tunes from the Dwight Lamb, Jensen & Bugge album Live in Denmark 2010.

Quadrille (trekant 1), Two Part Waltz, Polka 1, and Tomorrow I wed, but who shall I marry.

Interesting stuff I was introduced to by Bill Peterson from South Dakota up at the Bluff Country Gathering a few years back. Also fun to play Dwight Lamb's Opposite Polka and one of his Schottische's which don't seem to ever have names.

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I love Mr. Lamb's playing, he's an Iowa treasure. Is that album still in print?

For the recording of the Dwight Lamb, Jensen, & Bugge album - Live in Denmark 2010 you can find it at the following link:

kristianbugge.com/dwight-lamb-...ark-2010/

I had to use an online Danish to English translator to get it ordered, but it all worked out. There's a second recording of that trio if you're interested Live in Denmark 2013 on the same website that's also good.

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Originally posted by pmiller510

For the recording of the Dwight Lamb, Jensen, & Bugge album - Live in Denmark 2010 you can find it at the following link:

kristianbugge.com/dwight-lamb-...ark-2010/

I had to use an online Danish to English translator to get it ordered, but it all worked out. There's a second recording of that trio if you're interested Live in Denmark 2013 on the same website that's also good.

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Dwight "Red" Lamb lives an hour from me. He's getting older, but still fiddles some. If you want to fiddle like Red, put your fiddle on the opposite shoulder. Red plays "over the bar." (right handed fiddle played left handed)

Because it doesn't always have to be on the easier side : Mairi's Wedding in the key of G as in the pdf that I included. Cheating with sheet music here, but hey, this particular version is one of te best I could find online :-D
Fiddle in standard tuning , which I consider as some very serious practicing alongside studying the sheet music and have all the notes right. For me that is in F#C#G#D#, because that is the only way not to sound off- key or in other words just plain false when I choose for standard tuning: when I tune down a bit so that I'm tuned on sharp notes.

When it gets more difficult I cannot play in GDAE, but F#C#G#D# is for some strange reason my fix. I know I mentioned this here before, but I find it a devil's trick on my fiddle : it prefers to be tuned on sharp notes. This is not just a strange idea that lives in my mind, I am sincerely CONVINCED and find daily PROOF of it and my fiddle tuning life has changed since I came to this conclusion :-D

Wish I had more time to hangout and read here lately, but anyway: happy practice to all of you today! Hopefully soon I have some time to read up on new posts and topics here.

St. Louis Blues in E Minor.

Keep on the Sunny Side.

Learning my first "Scottish" tune..."Flatwater Fran"

What a beautiful tune. I am following Kevin Lees version.

Just picked up "Dry and Dusty"

I love when I'm able to quickly pick a tune up I've never heard before. I'm super close but, not able to carry it just on my own but, I can play along with George here on his latest version. I love the overhead camera angle on this one. No complaints but, watching a 5 string throws me off some...Also to mention the ability to slow down songs on YouTube helps incredibly. I think that feature works best for solo instrumentation.

Hey Erockin,

I love playing Flatwater Fran! Somebody told the joke at session about playing it real fast, and they renamed it "Whitewater Fran" :-D I like it more flatwaterish...I usually play with this one at home (Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, I think Phil wrote it):
https://youtu.be/wjssbYtV9Hg?si=lDhUxxMYlwqUGdQ0

Yea, I play so much with slowed-down YouTubes! I start out at 50% to pick up the notes, then up to 75% and depending on the player, I can sometimes get to 100%. The fast people, I can only make it up to 90%, haha. But nobody at session goes that speed either, phew.

Major peer pressure yesterday, three of them were heading for OT jam afterwards and saying, "You should come...you only need to know two chords!" I said, "It's not that easy! The alternate tuning, lots of doublestops, the shuffle rhythm..." There is this weird conception that OT is easier, but OT is much harder than Irish Trad for me!

Over here, learning two jigs: Apples in Winter. Tripping up the Stairs.
And fixing up "Frost is all over" after listening to it played different ways.
Yesterday we played the Christmas Eve reel, one of my faves, and we played it NOT in December, LOL. It sounds great in September! 

I was also going to suggest that video of Phil and Aly as an nspiration. I believe Phil did compose the tune, which I'd never heard till now.

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Originally posted by NCnotes

Hey Erockin,

I love playing Flatwater Fran! Somebody told the joke at session about playing it real fast, and they renamed it "Whitewater Fran" :-D I like it more flatwaterish...I usually play with this one at home (Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, I think Phil wrote it):
https://youtu.be/wjssbYtV9Hg?si=lDhUxxMYlwqUGdQ0

Yea, I play so much with slowed-down YouTubes! I start out at 50% to pick up the notes, then up to 75% and depending on the player, I can sometimes get to 100%. The fast people, I can only make it up to 90%, haha. But nobody at session goes that speed either, phew.

Major peer pressure yesterday, three of them were heading for OT jam afterwards and saying, "You should come...you only need to know two chords!" I said, "It's not that easy! The alternate tuning, lots of doublestops, the shuffle rhythm..." There is this weird conception that OT is easier, but OT is much harder than Irish Trad for me!

Over here, learning two jigs: Apples in Winter. Tripping up the Stairs.
And fixing up "Frost is all over" after listening to it played different ways.
Yesterday we played the Christmas Eve reel, one of my faves, and we played it NOT in December, LOL. It sounds great in September! 

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That's awesome! I'm leaning toward some more Scottish and Irish style tunes myself. I think it all helps to know as many different style tunes. Plus, I'm loving the strength of the irish tunes...meaing, it's a different drive than bluegrass and OT. I'm loving Flatwater Fran...I don't have the end of the A section and the end of the B has me twisted for now. When I head to my lesson next week, I'll be happy to have a head start on the tune. He can then help me get those kinks worked out. I did sit down this morning with that version you and Doug both mentioned and I like that one to play with. 

It was probably a banjo player suggesting to speed it up...lol

I was actually considering taking up tenor banjo (same fingering as fiddle! GDAE) but I thought about being the butt of all those banjo jokes....

At last! After many tries (including displaying lines of raw code in my post LOL) I figured out how to embed videos the way Erockin does!  (If anybody else wants to do this, I can post step-by-step instructions in another thread.)

So, speaking of tenor banjo...this is Enda Scahill, brother of fiddler Fergal Scahill:

Sorry for drift! ( I guess it is mildly relevant because this is what I was learning/playing before I fell of bike/sprained wrist. :-)

Glad you're feeling better. More drift - When the Irish players started tuning their banjos to GDAE (I believe Barney McKenna was the first) it really changed the role and the sound of the instrument. Here's one in the more traditional tuning, played by a wizard: youtu.be/6LCW2o6D3XI?feature=shared

Enjoyed that! ... yes, he is a wizard! 

The final movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2. I have no idea what key Bach wrote it in, but doing it in D is remarkably easy when you're tuned to standard. A jolly, happy, dance-able tune if there ever was one.