Fancy piece. Interesting that that the description in the following YouTube video calls it a "folk" tune when the composer is clearly indicated. youtu.be/AT7-J4Yt-oE

Porter's Reel
 

AlleghenyFront - As I sometimes like to say "Dont't believe everything you read on the Internet!"
Also, I think that piano roll was somewhat "augmented" from the actual sheet music, as was sometimes done. After all, you didn't really have to play it - just pump the pedals.

I actually picked up a fiddle!
Some slow double stop, improv stuff. (I kept it for tomorrow)
Then I played Salty
Then Panhandle Rag

FIve Miles from town I finally got all the notes right, now see what I can do to enhance my playing.

Arkansas Traveler -- doing it as cornball and cartoony as I possibly can. Please forgive me!

Went to the park Irish session today…our last two slow tunes before leaving were “crested hens” and the jig “out on the ocean”.

It was a bit cold and gray… but we survived, and had a good time! One of the fiddlers gave a mini-lesson to a little girl who wanted to try his fiddle. :-)

"A" tunes ...on the fiddle. Getting ready for a session tonight.

We haven't played together since Monday before Christmas. Long over due. Don't know that we will play them all, but - this is what I'm playing today...

Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston
All Young
Bailey Mountain
Big Eyed Rabbit
Blackjack Grove (aka Devil In The Haystack)
Boatin Up The Sandy
Boatman
Booth Shoot Lincoln
Breaking Up Christmas
Buffalo Gals (not girls)
Chinquapin Hunting
Crow Black Chicken
Crow Creek
Dance Around Molly
Dinah
Georgia Railroad
Grandad's Favorite
Grey Eagle
Grub Springs
Gunboat
Half Past Four
Happy Hollow
Hickory Smith
Icy Mountain
Jenny Get Around
Jenny Ran Away In The Mud In The Night
John Brown's Dream
Kitchen Girl
Little Billy Wilson
Little Dutch Girl
Old Horse And Buggy
Possum Up A 'Simmon Tree
Pretty Little Dog
Red Prairie Dawn
Road To Malvern
Saddle Old Kate
Salty River Reel
Stay With Me Til Morning
Tell Her To Come Back Home

Wow that is quite a list!!!

Flop Eared Mule. Dag nabbit, my favorite versions don't always come in the key of D. The beginner versions are too elementary sounding and the advanced versions are like fiddle competition speeds...lol. I'm getting there though. I'm not interested in the "plucky thinga-ling on the B part neither...lol

I've been working on this tune for a while. It goes by a lot of names. It's one every fiddle tradition seems to play. Bonnet Trimmed in Blue in Ireland... Walk Jawbone... It's in the fife tradition... Alex Dice. Lots of names. Cracovienne Quickstep.

I was looking at this notation from Henry Ford's collection and like the way it starts on an E note and like to play in F.
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Walk_Jawbone_(2)

Not from Henry Ford. From Ira Ford's "Traditional Music in America."
tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Walk_Jawbone_(2)

1-4-1-5-1, in A, D, & G.
Now, this was all double stops. It stemmed from a desire to play a 1-5, tune, but I honestly forgot some of my V(5) voicings, as some of the stuff I employ is rootless. (I.e., E & G are 2/3rds of the C chord.) It's not that I forgot it, it's I forgot the theory side.  I play most stuff ignorantly by ear. 

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Flop Eared Mule. Dag nabbit, my favorite versions don't always come in the key of D. The beginner versions are too elementary sounding and the advanced versions are like fiddle competition speeds...lol. I'm getting there though. I'm not interested in the "plucky thinga-ling on the B part neither...lol

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Key of G, sir, key of G. Of course it switches to D in the second part. Good for reaching with your pinky for that first note, high B. Doesn't have to be played fast, but it is fun to do so. No plucky thing, whatever that nonsense is. 

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Flop Eared Mule. Dag nabbit, my favorite versions don't always come in the key of D. The beginner versions are too elementary sounding and the advanced versions are like fiddle competition speeds...lol. I'm getting there though. I'm not interested in the "plucky thinga-ling on the B part neither...lol

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Key of G, sir, key of G. Of course it switches to D in the second part. Good for reaching with your pinky for that first note, high B. Doesn't have to be played fast, but it is fun to do so. No plucky thing, whatever that nonsense is. 

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My plan usually goes, learn the D version and then try it in another key. I wasn't getting it right and it took listening and watching the right video early this morning and BAM, I got it! 

Devil's Dream :-)

Re "Flop Eared Mule" - Think I first learned this one from the Holy Modal Rounders, possibly not the best source, but I guess I'd play it in D/A. Same fingering as G/D, just over one string (no high part though).

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Rights Of Man Bm

Basically how i hear it in Bm

 

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Love it in this key! ( I can already hear the flute players grumbling...I think low B is their lowest note and it can be hard for them... :-)

 

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I just got an F# minor version going!... (Starts on the open A string) Right up there on the fingerboard. 2nd part starts on the harmonic of the A string. Fast whispy legato/Rubato playing, mostly on the A & E strings...I like it.... ..Nice and Violinny.

Pete, Cool!!

Ironically I have been working hard to get rid of my “violinny” habits…with help of teacher, playing with what I think of as “noodle arm”, using a lot less bow, etc. When I start playing in my “old way” I think to myself, “noodle arm!” and my arm relaxes…The fiddling ways are sinking in pretty deep…before I always thought it would be easy to go back to classical if I ever want to, but now I am starting to wonder that I might not be able to go back!? Sorry for thread wandering.

Working on: Salamanca reel and lovely jig "contentment is wealth"

Latest discovery: I am one of the weird up-down-up triplet players…Most people apparently like down-up-down. (Triplet as in that fast little bow shake thing used in Irish fiddling.)

Salamanca is one of my Fav reels. i must be a totally weird tripleteer, as i use down up up mostly, and finger the notes also, (like a turnaround or a cut.)

Now that is interesting!! Yes, that might be put you in the 1%!
It seems that majority of folks are down-up-down, a few are up-down-up (incidentally I hear that puts me in the group with Kevin Burke) and then, your group must be even smaller! :-) My teacher said that there is a way which will come most naturally, so just do that - but then you gotta work your bowings around that preference...to avoid finding yourself going the wrong way at Triplet Time. :-)

Thanks for the correction!  

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Pete, Cool!!

Ironically I have been working hard to get rid of my “violinny” habits…with help of teacher, playing with what I think of as “noodle arm”, using a lot less bow, etc. When I start playing in my “old way” I think to myself, “noodle arm!” and my arm relaxes…The fiddling ways are sinking in pretty deep…before I always thought it would be easy to go back to classical if I ever want to, but now I am starting to wonder that I might not be able to go back!? Sorry for thread wandering.

Working on: Salamanca reel and lovely jig "contentment is wealth"

Latest discovery: I am one of the weird up-down-up triplet players…Most people apparently like down-up-down. (Triplet as in that fast little bow shake thing used in Irish fiddling.)

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Wow, you're trying to lose violinny and I'm trying to learn it haha! I get what you're saying though. My old band mate was classical before he went grass though his pitch and tone were always superb. I like the phrase "noodly arm" I'm going to think of that when I'm tense. I think most of my tone and fluidness comes from not being relaxed. 

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Re "Flop Eared Mule" - Think I first learned this one from the Holy Modal Rounders, possibly not the best source, but I guess I'd play it in D/A. Same fingering as G/D, just over one string (no high part though).

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I love it! I have a lesson in person tonight. I'm looking for a good printable version of the one I'm privy too. I'll have to give the ole G version I try. I like the easy keys of D and A but my most favorite are C and G

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Pete, Cool!!

Ironically I have been working hard to get rid of my “violinny” habits…with help of teacher, playing with what I think of as “noodle arm”, using a lot less bow, etc. When I start playing in my “old way” I think to myself, “noodle arm!” and my arm relaxes…The fiddling ways are sinking in pretty deep…before I always thought it would be easy to go back to classical if I ever want to, but now I am starting to wonder that I might not be able to go back!? Sorry for thread wandering.

Working on: Salamanca reel and lovely jig "contentment is wealth"

Latest discovery: I am one of the weird up-down-up triplet players…Most people apparently like down-up-down. (Triplet as in that fast little bow shake thing used in Irish fiddling.)

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