New Rules!! (rule)
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OMG (oh my god!) Robertson's Reel is SO COOL. . . Ok, I knew you all knew that anyway, especially you fiddle guys but I was fooling around with it on the mando and it works!! It falls trippingly from the fingers so to speak. Motion for a new rule. Every tune from now on has to be in the key of A. . . . maybe that will have to be amended to say nothing but A tunes unless I get on that dulcimer. . . no, that also won't work. Does any of our fiddle people have an opinion on this? I'd heard somewhere fiddlers like A tunes but nobody's complaining when we're stuck on the umpteenth D or G tune. Either your a forgiving lot or your to the point where the key doesn't make a difference. I remember learning the guitar and hating C tunes because it had an F in it and it hurt my fingers. Probably should have had that Sears guitar I learned on modified so the strings weren't 8 inches above the frets. The guitar got worse as the neck bowed. The thing ended looking like a weird six string harp. Here's your time to voice an opinion. Remember the next jam is the first THURSDAY of next month. Same bat time, same bat place. Jim Submitted by James Rathbun on Sun, 2008/02/17 - 5:55pm
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United States
October 23, 2007
Hooray! Another rule made to be broken!
United States
August 11, 2007
I'd say G, D and A are all equally fine / not a problem to play. On the other hand, the real difficulty in most tunes is not so much the key as the jumps between the notes (bowing pattern on fiddle / hammering pattern on dulcimer, etc.) While certain patterns might be easy to bounce back and forth on a dulcimer, they could be a real cross-bowing finger twisters on a fiddle.
I second the motion on Robertson's and heartily support all future entries in the key of A.
(Jim - in case I didn't respond earlier, I think Thursday's will generally work.)
Dave D.
United States
September 20, 2006
I hadn't tried Robby's Reel on the mando until just now. Yeeeeahh, Man! There's a reason they're called fiddle tunes, buddy. Playing fiddle tunes on a fiddle tuned instrument is like fallin' off a log. And all this time you thought Regina was talented. ;-)
OK. Next meeting, second time through Robbo's Reel - the MANDOLIN section takes the lead! (Julie, that means you have to play guitar.)
A tunes? Fine. Howzabout Bb? I got a shoebox full of capos.
United States
April 17, 2007
Oh brother. Next thing you know, you'll be wanting us all to learn stuff in B minor. If we have to play everything in A, I think we'll just start singing along with the multiplication tables instead of playing.
We can't do just A tunes! How will we ever do the ever popular Edmund Parisienne in 24 keys, if we only are allowed to play it in just one?
I think we need to expand the boundaries of the tune list. We should work to play each tune in at least 2-3 different keys. Major and minor. Nothing changes the character of a tune like choosing the opposite mode.
You grab those capos, and Julie, Sue & I will start playing our dulcimers with forks and pencils. Maybe chopsticks, for a little foreign flair.
Think I'll go crawl back under the Rock Pile.
Gail
United States
March 23, 2006
Tunes in A - that includes Ab minor, right?