Jason’s Practice – March 2024

[jason kleinberg]

Right now I’m trying to arrange songs for the fiddle and voice.
– Review songs
1. Sourwood Mountain
2. Norwegian Wood
3. Fiddler’s Delight
4. Blackbird
5. Girl I Left Behind/Barndance
6. Off to California
7. Do You Realize?? (by Flaming Lips)
8. Pink Moon
9. Old Town Road – Jerusalem Ridge (F Minor) – Shady Grove (F Minor)
10. Country roads
11. Out Of The Woods
12. Rockingham Cindy
13. Rickett’s Hornpipe
14. Julianne Johnson
– New Songs
1. Mexico (by Cake)
2. Wildflowers (by Tom Petty)

Let me know what you’ve been working on!

[Joanne Iles]

Wow, would love to hear your version of Wildflowers. My husband is a huge Tom Petty fan & is always getting me playing along with his guitar & vocal renditions!
I started the month working up to Paddy’s working on Irish Rover, Wild Rover,Kesh Jig working on a version based on your rooftop sessions with DU from a few years back!
Also working on Auld Grey Cat to try and get a really clean separate sound of the notes to evoke a mooching cat! Just because I love the tune…& cats!
I started listening & playing with the new Jam Mixes on the site & got hooked on some new tunes: Sitting on Top of The World, When the Saints, Also, The Girl I left behind me from Jocelyn’s Hootenanny this week!
Btw loving the new time for Hootenanny, I managed to get to my first ever live one on UK time!

[jason kleinberg]

I’ll share my version soon!
chords are mostly Bb/F/C/F

Glad you can attend the Hoot!

[Joanne Iles]

Yes, that figures! I found F pentatonic goes well with his version he just recorded for me to practice with.

[Sarah Gurtler]

I love this idea! I’m new here (3 weeks) and new back to the fiddle (3 weeks and a couple days). I played for a few months a good many years ago and am loving having a fiddle in my hand again.

I started reviewing some tunes I used to know:
Kentucky Waltz
Tennessee Waltz
Amazing Grace
Angelina Baker
Faded Love
Man of Constant Sorrow
Old Joe Clark
Rocky Top
Shady Grove
Happy Birthday (for my partner)
Wayfaring Stranger
Grandfathers Clock
Catfish John
Shortnin Bread
Bile ‘em cabbage down
Cluck old Hen
Cripple Creek

And I’ve been working on some new ones:
Joy to the world
Auld Lang Syne
Fire on the Mountain
I’ll Fly Away
Swallowtail Jig
Ashokan Farewell
Drunken Sailor

[jason kleinberg]

Good to have you Sarah!
That’s a big review list. Looks fun…
Let me know how it goes…

[Caroline CARROLL]

ha-ha, in contrast to the previous lists, I have been focusing on learning ONE tune-probably took me the longest of any tune so far, and still working on the double stops:
Cajun Fiddle
After working hard on that, then I just play various tunes I know by heart for a reward!

[jason kleinberg]

You get the prize for best strategy.
I like the blend of focus and free play.

[Ann Seye]

Over the past month I’ve been diving into practicing some rhythm and bowing patterns
I practiced the shuffle bowing on Shortnin’bread which was really fun to do
I tried Jig and Reel rhythm for Palm Sunday and Drowsie Maggie
Now I am looking for some playable ornaments for Si bgeag si mhor, which is an Irish tune.
I am also working on Blackbird
I started looking for a harmony for Irish rover
And finally I have been playing and singing ,I wish I was a mole in the ground, an Old-Time tune
for my two 2 year old grandsons. One of them likes to play the air violin with 2 branches next to me

[Caren]

I simply go over the tunes I know and try to iron out any bumps, focusing on one or two tunes at a time. Then I spend a while learning a new tune (Blackest Crow at the moment) and finally just for fun I play the tunes I like best and sometimes experiment with a bit of variation, like slightly changing the rhythm or setting a different emphasis etc.
Since yesterday’s Open Practice session I’ve decided to start practising with a metronome, or rather some of the beats from Beat Central, which should be fun.

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