Brushy Run

This. Is a big day. I am posting my final addition to my New Tune a Day project. Since my last, I've graduated with my Masters degree, published my thesis, gone on vacation to Thailand where I swam in the sea, rode elephants, cavorted with tigers, and ate my weight in pad thai, came home, packed up all our stuff, and moved to Colorado.

Here's my final NTAD.

Booth Shot Lincoln

Here's a simple old time tune in cross-tuning. I learned it from one of my students, who learned it off of an Uncle Earl album.

Blackberry Blossom

Here's an old time tune that shares a name with a well known bluegrass jam tune. I learned this tune from Bruce Molsky's playing. It's kind of weird sounding because there's a slightly raised 4th (the C#) sometimes, making the tune sound a little lydian.

Cold Frosty Morning with Nick Hornbuckle

Today's a special day because I am joined by banjoist Nick Hornbuckle. I learned this tune from a video he posted to youtube, and he graciously allowed me to use his footage for this NTAD.

Edward in the Treetop

Here's an old time tune I learned off of Rayna Gellert and Susie Goehring's album "Starch and Iron."

Salt River

Finally! An old-time tune! This one I learned off of one of Bruce Molsky's recordings.

Stuck on a Log

Andy Reiner of Tuneswappers wrote and taught me this cool old-timeyish crooked tune in 3.

Ways of the World

Crooked and cross-tuned.

Wolves a Howlin'

Another tune I learned straight for the source of all that is good: youtube. This is an old time tune in G tuning that I learned from a video of Rayna Gellert.

Walk Along John to Kansas

I learned this old-time tune off of Tatiana Hargreaves' album. Tatiana is a young but awesome fiddler. This tune is an old tune, and I don't know much about it except the ibiblio says it comes from "the south."

Callahan

Here's a fun old crooked tune I learned off of a Bruce Molsky recording.

Newt Payne's Tune

Here's a pretty tune for you. I learned this from a video of Adam Hurt and Stephanie Coleman and another video of Rhys Jones and John Herrmann. I love the B part. Also, oddly, it's played AAABBB.

Five Miles from Town

I have Rayna Gellert's recording with Susan Geohring on repeat.  By the end of this project (July 2012), I will probably have done every single tune on that album.  I LOVE IT.  So this is another one, called Five Miles from Town - tuning is standard with the low G string tuned up to an A. (ADAE)

Goodbye Girls

Another Old-Time tune!  I learned this one off of Rayna Gellert's and Susan Goehring's album "Starch & Iron."  I listened to it over and over today at work.  It's such a cool, unpredictable tune.  I think Rayna learned this tune from Andy Cahan.

Say Old Man I Want Your Daughter

I'm so grateful for youtube.  More than half of the tunes I've learned so far have come from videos on youtube.  This one came from a video of Stephanie Coleman and Adam Hurt playing live somewhere in the UK.  The tune is cool, open tuning, and crooked.

Waltzing with Lilly

This is a tune written by a friend of mine, Joe Morales, who plays guitar and claw-hammer banjo.  He wrote this one for his wife.  He taught it to me today.

Stillhouse (Cider Mill)

So here's a lovely old time tune in standard tuning.

John Riley the Shepherd

The source for the tune I learned today is Adam Hurt's recording "Earth Tones," which despite the new-agey title, is a gorgeous album of old time tunes he plays on a gourd banjo.  Gorgeous stuff.  This tune is on the last track.  I also listened to Stephanie Coleman's version, and play it in that key (G dorian.)  Also Stephanie's version is straight (not crooked), and Adam's version is crooked.

Breaking Up Christmas

So I've enjoyed a week or so of a break from learning a new tune everyday.  It's been very nice.  So now, to break up my Christmas Break, a very fitting tune.

Folding Down the Sheets

I learned another old time tune from Rayna Gellert's album today!  This is an old one, and everyone's
version is a little different.