tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468295005109653747.post1302842233215340612..comments2021-10-30T07:02:25.199-04:00Comments on FIDDLE JAMMER: Name that tuneTerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03735775224220157390noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468295005109653747.post-84087487497483833022011-01-23T13:38:04.756-05:002011-01-23T13:38:04.756-05:00Thanks for your comment, Matt.
The 'audience&...Thanks for your comment, Matt.<br /><br />The 'audience' is irrelevant when I'm old time jamming. It is all about the musical group interacting and taking on the challenge of improving on the tune each time through.Terhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03735775224220157390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468295005109653747.post-56166378937422009132011-01-22T18:40:26.939-05:002011-01-22T18:40:26.939-05:00I guess by now I have about fifty or more tune boo...I guess by now I have about fifty or more tune books, some of which have 500 or more tunes. Although there are many duplicates from book to book, the duplicates rotuinely are different settings. Besides the books I suppose I have heard another 1000 or 2000 tunes at jams and campouts. Yikes. My brain is full... so, I am familiar with very many more tunes than I could fully recall on request. Pretty often I have to hear a tune once or twice through before I can join in. I do remember many years ago when I was still a flatpicking guitar guy, seeing many of the older fiddlers who would start a tune by slowly working through the notes and phrases and then bringing it up to speed ponly on the 3rd or 4th iteration. So, my point is, that it is a kind of modern innovation that has slipped over from recordings and contest fiddling that you must start up briskly and end with a sharp clean cutoff. Slipping in to the tune and fading away is not Nashville, but it is not terrible.Matt McConeghy FS I-10https://www.blogger.com/profile/12769739785513953639noreply@blogger.com