Wild Mountain Thyme 

Look at me playing celtic stuff! Hahaha ha

A dear friend played this at Tuesday's jam. I wish he hadn't. It's been in my head since.

Yeah, I forgot "Irish Washerwoman" was part of that. I don't add it as it is not one a care much for. A bit of an Irish tune cliche.

"Mouse In The Kitchen", Nice simple jig with plenty of room for personalization.... (if that is a word)....It is!, i just google it.

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Yeah, I forgot "Irish Washerwoman" was part of that. I don't add it as it is not one a care much for. A bit of an Irish tune cliche.

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Yea..I kind of hate Irish Washerwoman and play it 1x/year, at the St Patrick's Day thing our session does. Once a year is enough. 

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I've been playing a tune set I learned a couple of decades ago from Co. Donegal. Two tunes, both have 4 parts. First is "Jig of Slurs" which is basically two jigs, first 2 parts in D, second two in G. Following that with "Athole Highlander" which is all in A major except the very last part leans mixolydian by adding a G natural for a measure, probably be considered accidentals. If you don't play them, I highly recommend the set. It was made popular on the album that introduced the world to Donegal fiddling - Fiddle Sticks: Irish Traditional Music from Donegal.

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Och, now I am adding those two to my list! I have heard them played pretty often... but I think I'm gonna fall in love with them after hearing that album.

Ah ha ha Pete, ok here is my geekout on your Islay Rant sheet music! (only because you asked) Technically, it's super good!!!

So, just personal preferences...
- I tend not to play the dotted stuff in 1st and 2nd endings, tend to play it as straight as eighth notes (probably just because that's the way the whistle player I first heard on YT does it)
Measure 10, first part: confusing for readers? and hard! I'm still not sure I've got that right, but it's sure pretty.
Measure 15: The last four notes, I tend to go E - A - F# - A

I really like your cuts (the little notes above) and your triplets!
Although I can't go down-up-up like you. :-)

OK shutting up now and signing off -
( been on FHO a lot because I had a tooth extraction and vegetating online a bit...:-)

Thanks for giving it a run through, and the constructive comments.

Measure 10 is just a long roll but i couldn't find the symbol for it in MuseScore, so i just wrote it out in dots as close as i could.

Dotted stuff on the repeats is meant to give it a "Scots snap" thing, i probably don't play it like that every time either.

It really is just for me to learn the tune. After i've written it out i tend to just use the midi file to remind myself how it goes and play around by ear. I'll take a look at Bar 15 maybe, your way is better, or they might go together?

Thanks again :O)

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I've been playing a tune set I learned a couple of decades ago from Co. Donegal. Two tunes, both have 4 parts. First is "Jig of Slurs" which is basically two jigs, first 2 parts in D, second two in G. Following that with "Athole Highlander" which is all in A major except the very last part leans mixolydian by adding a G natural for a measure, probably be considered accidentals. If you don't play them, I highly recommend the set. It was made popular on the album that introduced the world to Donegal fiddling - Fiddle Sticks: Irish Traditional Music from Donegal.

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Ahh "The Jug Of Slugs" and "Athole Highlanders" A blast from the past, like "Kesh" and "Morrisons" jigs,  love it, Maybe they are getting "vintage" respect nowadays? Ahh and "Lark In The Morning", and "My Son's A Prawn".....But that's a reel :)

NCnotes - You may have found that all the tracks from the Donegal CD are available on YouTube. But all four of those Cork CDs are available at a bargain price: amazon.com/Distant-Shore-Irish...00000JMDF
Some great stuff from a lot of top players! Would make a good Christmas present for someone.

Thank You Doug! Actually that whole "Fiddle Sticks" album is on Spotify and I'm listening to it! :-) ( Since I'm in front of my computer for work, Spotify is the easiest listening method...they took the CD slots out of computers...they seem to be slowly taking my USB slots away too...even the power button is getting hard to find...sigh.)

Pete, I hadn't heard of that classic reel "My Son's a Prawn" - but I'll check it out! :-D

islay Rant: Measure 10 is a roll? Gotcha, that makes it easier than trying to read the music and play the notes into the right timing, phew! btw Tony McManus did a dreamy interesting guitar arrangement ... here is somebody playing it...:-) 

OK sorry for drift,
back to what everybody is playing! 

Emergency breaks law... fiddle is at the luthier - finally! - I took out the supposedly old JTL fiddle with lowered neck, found the bridge that I had been flattening a bit with sand paper, some strings were found back in the case I used to bring my good fiddle to the luthier , a mix of different brands but hey, the thing is making sound and I like it :-D So now trying a bunch of tunes :D

I thought i would try to resurrect "Banish Misfortune" today, so i started mining the internet for a definitive version...LOL

I'm just going to polish up my own version, and hope that it does what it says on the tin...Banish Misfortune

Right now ... Sourwood Mountain on the old fiddle same tuning as I used to learn it.

Same time while playing I am laughing a bit by myself. I explained the luthier today : oh yes never mind the fiddle is in G#D#G#D, and he instantly plucked the thing but just couldn't get it lol. He said : but your D string sounds higher than the D string is supposed to be! Still makes me laugh because over here these violinists just don't seem to get it hahahah. I am not planning to make anyone wiser. Go figure it out yourself I will think from now on hahahah. I do not trust anyone with what I have found so far - not over here, no way :-p Even if they would beg me my lips would stay sealed. Noone is allowed to sell it. I WILL pay it forward one day, but only if I can pass it on to someone who would need it like I needed this - to hold on to in life.

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Ahh and "Lark In The Morning", and "My Son's A Prawn".....But that's a reel :)

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Pete!! I actually earnestly googled this reel and listened to it on Folk Finder... You got me! 

This old fiddle has a golden sound ... Lightly..learn to do everything lightly :-)

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Ahh and "Lark In The Morning", and "My Son's A Prawn".....But that's a reel :)

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Pete!! I actually earnestly googled this reel and listened to it on Folk Finder... You got me! 

 

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Oh no!...i didn't mean to ...It really is on folk finder ha ha..

Pete - If your son's a prawn, does that mean you're a lobster?
I once bought an Edison cylinder just because of title "I'd rather be a lobster than a wiseguy."

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Pete - If your son's a prawn, does that mean you're a lobster?
I once bought an Edison cylinder just because of title "I'd rather be a lobster than a wiseguy."

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Nahh...They are different species. "My Son's A Lobster" doesn't work. i think the pun has probably come from the Australian Slang term "Prawn". As i got the joke title from a flute player who had recently returned to the UK from playing in bush bands in Austrailia.

Pete - Do you still play the "prawn" song like this, or is it considered too "vintage" by you young people?
youtu.be/2a72jX8HcWw?feature=shared

AWESOME version. Thanks Doug!

There's only one fiddle player ever, that played it like that!

First bit of Greasy String again ... at only half of the tempo. I made another recording with only the old jtl violin ... I'm sooooo in love with the sound of this one ! It sounds as strong as my good fiddle and brilliant bit more round than my good fiddle and the sound seems to come from a point a little bit more away from my ear / from a point just further away which makes this one a very cool one to practise.
I feel like in love seriously hehe .

Tuning the thing is fairly easy the tuning pegs are easy to handle and I love the tailpiece.

I wonder what it will be like if I use a same set of strings because now it is a mix of three brands I think.

Tried "Big Mon" this morning and welp...I stink lol. I'm trying to find a good video of a solo mandolin to slow down. It looks easy. Nope

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Tried "Big Mon" this morning and welp...I stink lol. I'm trying to find a good video of a solo mandolin to slow down. It looks easy. Nope

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I play this one. Not sure where your trouble is, possibly the string crossings in the A part? It it could just be the bowing. It becomes a nice 3 - 1 - 3 - 1 bowing pattern once you get the first phrase started, the pattern sometimes referred to as Georgia shuffle. I fall into a 3 down 1 up pattern for a portion of but definitely not all of the A part. Some say it should be 3 up one 1 down. Meh. I put the single bow where the chop would be, so down makes some sort of sense, but I've never been able to bow it that way. You'll see that there are "slurs across the bar" because you don't change bow direction on the "one." Don't think to much about it. Hope this helps. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5dfgpCHICM

Again Greasy String.... still some work on the B part but I kind of love this messy attempt in my sloppy after dog day look, this recording is completely imperfect but I love the way I tend to cover mistakes. As some over here would  say : "Go to war with something like that" - while shaking their head :-p BUT I am convinced one day even I will reach that magical moment where I can play well with others, literally that will be haha.

At least I am having great fun , noone can deny that!