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Hi George!

I know mostly bluegrass. I have been working on Liberty and Old Joe Clark which also get played at Old Time jams. 'Liza Jane is good and fairly easy. Soldier's Joy is a standard, but I'm finding myself confused by how many variations there seem to be. There doesn't seem to be one set way to learn it or play it.

Pearl

"Got time to breathe, got time for music!"

Also George, if there are some tunes that turn up often at the guided jams in Urbana I'd be glad to work on them, too. I remember that the two that I went to they did "My Own Home Waltz" (D) both times, and I like that tune.

To make some suggestions, I have posted a file of the full list of tunes played in 7 sessions of the UIS old-time session. There is a total of 106 tunes there, a very large number, and I'm not making any suggestion that this is a target. This is available in the "files" section of this group. I have recordings of all of these tunes as played in the UIS session, and I can make copies of them for you if you wish.

Of these 106 tunes, 12 have been played more than 3 times:

Arkansas Traveler (D) (4)
Bill Cheatham (A) (5)
Cherokee Shuffle (A) (7)
Granny Does Your Dog Bite? (A) (4)
Liberty (D) (4)
Mississippi Sawyer (D) (5)
Over the Waterfall (D) (6)
Redwing (G) (5)
Shenandoah Falls (A) (4)
Turkey in the Straw (G) (4)
Whiskey Before Breakfast (D) (7)
Wildwood Flower (C and D) (4)

Of these, I would say that Liberty, Mississippi Sawyer, Over the Waterfall, Redwing, Whiskey Before Breakfast, and Wildwood Flower are likely to be easy-ish AND common at other sessions. The only ones I've worked on (on the fiddle) are Liberty, redwing, and Whiskey.

I agree that Old Joe Clark (in A) and Liza Jane (in both D & A) are good additions.

Erich
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