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ARCHIVED TOPIC: Dec 2012 VFF tune... before the end of the Mayan Calendar!

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groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/02/2012: 14:08:53

Hey, let's hurry and learn this one before the Mayan Calendar comes to a screeching halt... we could lose our gravity... we already did lose our Twinkies! This time, I'm gonna learn it... I really am... if you need to listen or get backup tracks, remember we get the tunes from oldtimejam.com and this is a D tune... here we go: youtu.be/iqGqIFokrCA and may the force be with you! Let's hope we make it to the JAN tune!

NCarolinaFiddler - Posted - 12/02/2012: 16:08:00

So its Polly Put The Kettle On? I've messed with this tune some so I am a bit familiar with it.

RobBob - Posted - 12/02/2012: 16:10:58

Geez why not write a new tune and call it Indian Sunset?

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/02/2012: 16:29:05

Ok cool...NC knows it !!!! Gotta jump start. Indian Sunset??? I don't get it?????????oh...you mean the Mayan end-of-the-world thing???? Lol...

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 12/02/2012 16:30:18

ajisai - Posted - 12/10/2012: 07:54:19

Okay. Here are some slippery-hill.com examples of tunes named for various people putting a kettle on.

Tommy Jarrell | John Sharp by way of Reinhard Gress | Uncle Dick Hutchinson | Leake County Revelers | Skillet Lickers

And, of course, Mr. Lundy, who, by catching that low string, captures my heart.

G modal

Marcus Martin | Byard Ray | Manco Snead

Edited by - ajisai on 12/10/2012 08:02:58

martynspeck - Posted - 12/10/2012: 08:22:29

quote:

Originally posted by RobBob

Geez why not write a new tune and call it Indian Sunset?

You know, there are lots of tunes out there with no names. Pick one.

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/11/2012: 04:20:08

Thanks for those examples. I was just thinking the ther day I've gotta get back to my fiddle again! Then I sat down and tried to organize little time segments...gotta keep the guitar going for the band, and then help everybody a lot, but tried to squeeze in fidde room before I forget everything I learned...for about the fifth time in my life!!!! Then as soon as I had that thought in my head the phone rang...somebody in the hospital again, plus more stuff going on with others...I. E., I cannot make a plan without a buncha bad stuff happening!!!! So...not to mention Christmas around the bend...I'm almost afraid to even THINK of organizing my time again...seems to cast bad luck on people! Will I get to try this one???? Don't know...but I am sure hoping!

scrubber - Posted - 12/19/2012: 09:25:33

Whew! I beat the 'dead'line.

youtube.com/watch?v=WrQfFrAGJa...=youtu.be

(I was going to play it faster, but I found that I liked it on the slow side better).

dave

Edited by - scrubber on 12/19/2012 09:28:57

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/19/2012: 09:48:57

Daggone, Scrubber Dave!!! You play these things so good!!!!! And sounds like Sawmill tuning again? Wow, I like it! I've had a rest from fiddling, accidentally of course, and trying as a New Year's Resolution to get my life back in order, which would include fiddling...I think you might just have me convinced to try cross-keyed tunings for some of these things...you really do a great job with it!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/19/2012: 09:50:19

I liked it so much I almost forgot my grandson's gingerbread men in the oven,...whew! Got there just in time!

scrubber - Posted - 12/20/2012: 06:48:15

Thanks groundhogpeggy, glad you liked it!

This tuning is like sawmill, since the G string is tuned up to A, but sawmill would also include tuning the D string up to E.

Glad the gingerbread men got out of the oven in time!

dave

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/20/2012: 11:17:19

Is it ADAE, then?????? Maybe you said it on the YouTube, but my ipad is acting weird and I can't read the descriptions on the videos lots of times. Very curious...how did you come to choose that (or whichever if that ain't right) tuning? I'm still not clear on cross- keyed playing...but you sure seem to have the knack for it. And, yes those gingerbread men survived my cooking but many of them were ripped from limb to limb and gobbled up to their very crumb, and the future of the survivors looks bleakly yummy...grandson is a cookie-monster!

scrubber - Posted - 12/20/2012: 12:11:38

I expected the gingerbread men would have a grisly fate, but was glad they had a little while more before their doom!

The Old-Time tuning for D tunes is just that -- the tuning commonly used when playing in D. It works for many (but not all) D tunes (sometimes you need that low G).

dave

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/20/2012: 17:18:46

Well after all the Christmas stuff I'm gonna have to try some of these tunings again...I never could make em work, but I think after some of your YouTubes, I'm starting to think maybe I'm getting the idea. I can't wait to try!

tonyelder - Posted - 12/20/2012: 19:13:01

OK. I finally had to give up on trying to get a recording that I liked. It's gonna have warts - or there just won't be one.

ho - ho -ho

ADAE

D Polly Put The Kettle On

scrubber - Posted - 12/20/2012: 19:45:22

Nice one, Tony!

I like the 'morph' into shave-and-a-haircut at the end.

dave

Larry Rutledge - Posted - 12/20/2012: 21:44:34

great fiddling all around. I think them May-yands gonna need a new calender:)

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/21/2012: 04:08:16

Nice job, Tony! You used the same tuning as Dave...wow you guys are making me wanna try! But there's too much between now and the end of the year...then, look out: I'm gonna change things as much as I can to get back to fiddling before I forget what little I know...these tunings, I hope, to make em work out for me. Thanks, Tony...sounded good!

tonyelder - Posted - 12/21/2012: 11:42:36

Thanks for the kind words.

MikeyBoy - Posted - 12/22/2012: 08:36:15

Nice work Tony And Dave! Not sure I'll be able to get to this one or not, I've hardly been able to play at all this month, but might be able to fit it in between Christmas and New Year's. At least the world didn't end!

MikeyBoy - Posted - 12/22/2012: 08:39:15

Also, Carlb has a great version on his homepage, and some more historical info here:

fiddlehangout.com/topic/27046

NCarolinaFiddler - Posted - 12/22/2012: 10:02:58

I'm still working on this. I really only know a basic version and I don't like it. So listening to a lot of versions.

Everyone sounding good, btw.

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/24/2012: 13:32:00

Well it's almost time for the next tune...I'm probably gonna mss this one again, but New Years resolution is designed to make time for more of my own interests, before I totally lose my mind. There's still a little time left, though, in case anybody can swing it...thanks to those Mayans getting it all wrong!!!

tmchurch - Posted - 12/30/2012: 15:15:00

OMG Peggy, I thought the little black doggie to the right of the duck was real!!

dogmageek - Posted - 12/30/2012: 15:28:25

Here is polly put the kettle at end of 2012.

Happy New Year.

polly put the kettle on

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 12/30/2012: 16:50:03

DogmaGeek, nice job! Sounds good...I like it! Love the pace too. Tmchurch, we got too many real dogs and other critters around here, so seems strange they've bought the grandson toy critters too...lol! Yeah, that was the fake dog in the video.