Tommy Jarrell
Old-Time Fiddle Round Peak Style: History, Tips & Techniques
by Brad Leftwich
$24.99
sku: 02-20485M
Book with online audio. Traditional Southern old-time fiddling, focusing on the style and repertoire of master fiddler Tommy Jarrell (1901 - 1985). Detailed, accurate transcriptions of 83 tunes (the bulk of Jarrell's repertoire) in standard notation and fiddle tablature, along with interesting anecdotes. The tunes are played on the audio as transcribed, at a moderate tempo. Stylistic tips, background information on the area and music, bio on Jarrell and many of the musicians from whom he learned, illustrated with old photographs. Intermediate/advanced. 128 pp. More Details...
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Tunes:
- Baby-o
- Big-Eyed Rabbit
- The Blackest Crow (My Dearest Sweetheart)
- Breaking up Christmas
- Chilly Winds
- Cluck Old Hen
- Cotton-Eyed Joe
- Cripple Creek
- Darling Nellie Grey
- Fire on the Mountain
- Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?
- Greasy String
- Groundhog
- Ida Red
- John Brown’s Dream
- John Hardy
- John Henry
- June Apple
- Kitty Clyde (Katy Cline)
- Let Me Fall (Old Hard Road)
- Little Maggie
- Lonesome Road Blues
- Old Bunch of Keys
- Old Joe
- Police
- Poor Ellen Smith
- Pretty Little Girl
- Pretty Polly
- Rainbow Sign
- Round Town Gals (Buffalo Gals)
- Ruben
- Shortening Bread
- Sourwood Mountain
- Stay All Night
- Sweet Sunny South
- The Tater Patch Tune
- Train on the Island
- When Sorrows Encompass Me Round
AE'A'C#" tuning (key of A)
- The Drunken Hiccups (Jack of Diamonds)
AD'A'E" tuning (key of D)
- Arkansas Traveler
- Backstep Cindy (Stepback Cindy)
- “Old-Time” Backstep Cindy (Holly Ding)
- The Bravest Cowboy
- Cider (Stillhouse)
- Ducks on the Mill Pond
- Fall on My Knees
- Fisher’s Hornpipe
- Forky Deer
- Fortune
- The Joke on the Puppy (Rye Straw)
- Mississippi Sawyer
- New River Train
- Old Jimmy Sutton
- Old Molly Hare
- Peek-a-Boo (Green Gravel)
- Polly Put the Kettle On
- Richmond Cotillion
- Ricketts’ Hornpipe
- Rochester Schottische (Walking in the Parlor)
- Rockingham Cindy
- Sally Ann
- “Old-Time” Sally Ann
- Say, Darling, Say
- Soldier’s Joy (Love Somebody)
- Sugar Hill
- Susananna Gal (Western Country)
- Tempie
- They Say It Is Sinful to Flirt (Willie My Darling)
- The Wreck of the Old 97
- The Yellow Rose of Texas
DD'A'D" tuning (key of D)
- Boll Weevil
- Bonaparte’s Retreat
- Ryland Spencer
AD'A'D" tuning (key of D)
- Frankie Baker (Frankie and Albert)
- Tumblin Gap (Cumberland Gap)
GD'A'D" tuning (key of G)
- Flatwoods
GD'A'E" tuning (various keys)
- Cackling Hen
- Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand
- Devil in the Strawstack
- Old Buck (Paddy on the Turnpike)
- Piney Woods Gal
- Sail Away Ladies
- Walking in My Sleep
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