Waltz Ensemble, Jamming With Your Guitar Playing Friends

Hi Folks,

I have a couple of classes starting Saturday, March 25th. Jamming is at 2:30 and the Waltz Ensemble is at 4:00. I hope to see you in class. If not I’ll see you down the road. Call 773.728.6000 or sign up at oldtownschool.org.

Waltz Ensemble
If you are intrigued by the world of ¾ tunes then this class is for you. We’ll explore waltz-time tunes from the U.S., Canada, the British Isles, Scandinavia, the rest of Europe, and wherever else we can find them. We love both melody instruments such as fiddles, mandolins, piano, accordion, pennywhistles, and chord players on ukulele, piano, guitar, and bass. Singers, we
might do a few songs but instrumental music Reading is helpful but not required.

Jamming with your Guitar Playing Friends
Have you ever wondered what you are supposed to do when your guitar playing friends say “get out your fiddle and play a song with us?” Is your jam session over when they tell you they don’t know how to back up Soldier’s Joy? Are you completely lost without your written music from high school orchestra? If yes is your answer to any of these questions, then you need to take this class and learn how to jam. We’ll learn a “secret scale” with no bad notes and learn how to make musical phrases. By the time it’s over you’ll be telling your guitar playing friends to get out their instruments so they can jam with
you!

Jordan Wankoff
jwankoff@yahoo.com

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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

You all should consider adding Rayna Gellert recording of “Winder Slide” to your collection. In fact, the whole album is fabulous. It’s called Ways of the World.

Here’s a link to the iTunes store: Winder Slide.
Here’s a link to the Amazon mp3 store: Ways of the World.

Winder Slide medium banjo & fiddle

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Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – week 5

I learned this from Howard “Rusty” Marshall of Columbia, Missouri in 1998. When he recorded it a few years later, it sounded like a different tune. That’s the way aural tradition ebbs and flows.

Evansville slower

Evansville faster

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Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 5

Eighth of January, slow and too simple for Fiddle 2

Eighth of January, medium tempo

Eighth of January, full speed ahead

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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 4&5

In week 4, we learned a G tune . . .

Brushy Fork, Jenny Sidle of Hanover, Ohio, 1986

Brushy Fork medium banjo & fiddle

In week 5, a D tune . . .

Washington’s March, Edden Hammonds of West Virginia, 1947

Washington’s March, slow

Washington’s March, medium

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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

The tune is Fortune, normally a D tune, here transposed to A. The lyrics came from Mildred Plummer.

Won’t Get Drunk No More, Indian Creek Delta Boys

Here are the lyrics.
Won’t Get Drunk No More
(Just click to preview. A big download button should be visible.)

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Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 1

I learned the tune from Garry Harrison. He learned it from Benny Wood.
Here’s Mr. Wood playing it (heard on Dear Old Illinois).

Forty Miles from Georgetown without Any Whiskey

NB Right click the tune title and “save link” (the mp3 file) to your computer. Or click the arrow to listen.

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Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – week 7

A tune in C with many names and many versions.

Old Bob Donald Duff, Lizton, Indiana, 1979

Mr. Duff called the tune “Walter Harmon’s Hornpipe in C,” after the “older gentleman” he learned it from. I got the name “Old Bob” from Jimmie Campbell of Dolan, Indiana.

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Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – weeks 5 & 6

In Week 5 we did Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom, a tune shaped differently by each player.

Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom Ed Morrison of Kentucky, circa 1937

Blackberry Blossom Frank Hall & Lena Ullman, 2007

NOTE Frank Hall, a native Hoosier now living in Ireland, will be a featured guest at Fiddle Club of the World, on Sunday, September 30. Details forthcoming on the Fiddle Club blog

In Week 6, we did Snake River Reel, a tune made up in the 1970s by dance caller Peter Lippincott of St. Louis (now living in Arkansas).

Snake River Reel Steve Rosen & Paul Tyler

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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

Magpie comes from Harlan and Lonnie Coble of Guildford County, North Carolina. The Fuzzy boys learned it from them sometime around 1970. I lived in Guildford County in 1971-72.

Magpie Fuzzy Mountain String Band

Magpie medium tempo on fiddle

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | August 2, 2012 | Comments (0)


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