Fiddle music

[Richard Prowse]

Thanks, old buddy.

[Jason Sypher]

Great. That sent me back to Sally Gooden. I had worked it up a bit at some time but the definitive version (Eck Robertson's) has a three octave range and I had a hard time making it work in my head. I'll see if I can get it where I like it and post it sometime. It's nice to add some improv to it, I do that all the time but tend to stick to the tune when I record something. Nice ideas.

Here's that version: http://files.me.com/bassnote/aizmgf.mov

What amazes me is the drive and fluidity and stream of good ideas. When he finally lays on that minor it's a real release.

[Richard Prowse]

Originally Posted by Jason Sypher

Great. That sent me back to Sally Gooden. I had worked it up a bit at some time but the definitive version (Eck Robertson's) has a three octave range and I had a hard time making it work in my head. I'll see if I can get it where I like it and post it sometime. It's nice to add some improv to it, I do that all the time but tend to stick to the tune when I record something. Nice ideas.

Here's that version: http://files.me.com/bassnote/aizmgf.mov

What amazes me is the drive and fluidity and stream of good ideas. When he finally lays on that minor it's a real release.

Jason, I've got to be honest and say that I've only ever heard one version of Sally (Richard Greene, with a band called Seatrain) and that was in the 1970s. I was unable to bring up your link. My piece only contained the violin riff (as I remembered it) and was really just an improvisation. It is really just a piece inspired by a violin player I liked.

[Jason Sypher]

And a great piece of work it is! Funny thing is, as I listen again, you actually intuited a lot of what is found in that great piece of fiddling I put up on my server. There is some really high stuff that I really struggle with (at the end of the fingerboard) that I bet you could pull off easily. I'll check the link and see what I can do.