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lifeinajug - Posted - 03/01/2007: 18:55:06
Hello hello! I was curious if you all have any recomendations for three part tunes. I'm pretty partial ro Lost Indian, but I can't rightly think of very many...
Have Fun,
Travis
jasper - Posted - 03/01/2007: 19:48:38
how about Boatman, or old Melinda, always fun tunes to play
Forward Ho!!!!!
ScottK - Posted - 03/01/2007: 21:19:03
Billy Wilson
Scott
MrSrubas - Posted - 03/01/2007: 21:20:52
Stoney Point.
Rachel Streich - Posted - 03/01/2007: 22:48:28
Some versions of Elzick's Farewell have 3 parts (though some people simply leave out the B part and play it as a 2-part tune).
Shipping Port (in G) is another great 3-part tune.
Some people play Old Mother Flanagan with 3 parts.
Rachel Streich
What?: c 1920 Weymann 5-string openback
How Long?: Since 1989
Venues: Mostly jamming, willing to teach
Style: Old-time clawhammer
Other: Fiddle, guitar, some mandolin, vocals
Working On: "Garfield's Blackberry Blossom"
Dream Banjo: I'll know it when I see it
Banjo John C - Posted - 03/01/2007: 23:26:26
Chinquapin Hunting, key of A. Texas Gals, key of C.
Smooth is fast, fast is smooth
oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 03/02/2007: 00:09:15
Trying to avoid tunes already mentioned - which isn't easy if your memory is as bad as mine.
Wild Horses At Stoney Point
Little Rabbit (actually 4 or 5 according to how you want to count parts) and I've heard it combined with "Rabbit Where's Your Mammy" too.
The Reel Of The Hanged Man - again 4 parts
Walking In The Parlour
We do a Cotton Eye Joe with 3 parts but I don't know if it is common.
Ragtime Annie
Three Thin Dimes
Other than ones that have been listed by others that's what I can think of at the moment.
The Whiskey Before Breakfast variations and a few tunes in "F" tuning are now available on the web at:
http://home.thegrid.net/~fjbrad/id20.html
ZEPP - Posted - 03/02/2007: 08:08:51
Come to think on it, the version of Cumberland Gap that I play (and recorded for my website..duh!) is three-part.
Cheers,
ZEPP
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Jacinto Guevara - Posted - 03/02/2007: 11:26:27
All early ragtime has three or four melodies in two or three different keys. This was a march (musical genre) thang. Ragtime IS march music, much exaggerated and synchopated.
RoundPeakBanjo - Posted - 03/02/2007: 11:39:17
Molly Put the Kettle On - two parts unless the fiddle blows the dinner horn, Joke on the Puppy, Polecat Blues,Texas Breakdown and Fishers Hornpipe these last three I learned from Benton Flippen.
Edited by - RoundPeakBanjo on 03/02/2007 11:52:51
Keith E - Posted - 03/02/2007: 11:58:48
Jeff Sturgeon, Sharp's Reel (I think that one has 4 parts), Bull at the Wagon
banjoholic - Posted - 03/02/2007: 12:07:54
Snowdrop
jojo25 - Posted - 03/02/2007: 14:13:06
Cherokee Shuffle has a 3rd part...only heard it w/ 3 Ps from one fiddler here in Madison, Wi
Also...Hell Broke Loose in Georgia...is 3 or 4 parts...a great tune!
Ragtime Annie...already mentioned...the 3rd part...in G...for those of you who don't do it with the 3rd part...I highly recommend it that way...real nice to make the transition from G back to D...
Banjonically yours
Joe
u k sandra - Posted - 03/02/2007: 16:18:19
The Falls Of Richmond.
s donnelly
Don Borchelt - Posted - 03/02/2007: 18:41:16
Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle
"Well, I know there's a lotta big preachers that know a lot more than I do
But it could be that the good Lord likes a little pickin' too."
- Tom T. Hall, from The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
tubaphone1927 - Posted - 03/02/2007: 22:31:18
quote:
Originally posted by jojo25
Cherokee Shuffle has a 3rd part...only heard it w/ 3 Ps from one fiddler here in Madison, Wi
Also...Hell Broke Loose in Georgia...is 3 or 4 parts...a great tune!
Ragtime Annie...already mentioned...the 3rd part...in G...for those of you who don't do it with the 3rd part...I highly recommend it that way...real nice to make the transition from G back to D...
Banjonically yours
Joe
Yeah,
I was at a jam recently where the fiddle player played a third part to cherokee shuffle. It confused the crap out me because I've played it in A and in D and both bluegrass and oldtime...so I just figured that the fiddle player was crazy (it's been known to happen). So I guess that there is a real three part version of cherokee shuffle. Pretty cool.
"Who says a Banjo Player can't drive a BMW!"
Edited by - tubaphone1927 on 03/02/2007 22:32:25
oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 03/02/2007: 22:49:36
I think I recall a 3 part Cherokee Shuffle too -- from decades ago.
Here are a couple 4 part tunes where the 2nd part is identical to the 4th part:
"Falls Of Richmond" which is very common
"Death Valley" which is probably very rare.
Have I mentioned "Jenny On the Railroad"?
The Whiskey Before Breakfast variations and a few tunes in "F" tuning are now available on the web at:
http://home.thegrid.net/~fjbrad/id20.html
oldtimer - Posted - 03/03/2007: 01:30:51
Some versions of Dusty Miller have three parts and so do some versions of Grey Eagle.
Best regards,
Glenn Godsey
Couchie - Posted - 03/07/2007: 17:33:08
Grey Eagle has 4 or 5 parts. Fun to play...
Don.
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oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 03/07/2007: 17:47:04
It turns out the "Cumberland Gap" my wife and I play is also 3 parts. I'm not sure how common it is. We got it from Fonzy Kennimer so I'd check my North Georgia stringbands but they are packed away so I can build some new shelves.
I have the feeling we've got a 1920s recording of a similar "CG" but whether it was the Skillet Lickers, or Earl Johnson, or The Yellow Hammers - etc etc etc, I just can't be sure.
The Whiskey Before Breakfast variations and a few tunes in "F" tuning are now available on the web at:
http://home.thegrid.net/~fjbrad/id20.html
banjothumper5 - Posted - 03/07/2007: 19:08:21
Dill Pickle Rag make a good finger pickin` number.
Allen
Edited by - banjothumper5 on 03/07/2007 19:09:16
inniepie - Posted - 03/07/2007: 23:23:28
I like "Sally's Got Mud Between Her Toes" - although I play it on the fiddle...
"I don't claim to know that tune"
Charlie Acuff
