Fiddly things, piano things

Clifftop recap (which means fiddle videos), and then a bunch of piano tunes. Sorry about the month-and-a-half-long radio silence—sometimes life just happens.

Lonesome John—bowing (with video)

This is how I bow Lonesome John (source: John Salyer). Video is included, demonstrating fast and slow.

Another fiddle tune—Sandy Floor

Just a tune that I learned really early on and I can’t seem to find any recordings of.

EDIT: Turns out this tune was collected (from Illinois fiddler Pappy Taylor) by Garry Harrison but didn’t make it into his book Dear Old Illinois.

Sarah Armstrong’s Tune—bowing (with video)

This is how I bow Sarah Armstrong’s Tune. Video is included, demonstrating fast and slow.

Old-time bowing

After a discussion with user Fiddlepogo on Fiddle Hangout, I came up with some more things to talk about here. Here’s a comprehensive recap of my earlier bowing blog posts along with more content.

Functional analysis, huh

I was reading this and it seemed to make way too much sense—I feel like it describes the framework for what I do when I improvise chords on the piano. Here’s some stuff that I thought about. (I apologize in advance for mixing roman numeral notation with the functional analysis notation.)

How bowing might work, part 2 of unknown

I was pondering the question of “What affects my bowing?” and here’s what I came up with.

Scaling down, and fiddling around

Scale idea, and bowing patterns.