Tommy jarrell and string band at the edwardsfranklin house during the annual sonker festival, mount airy, north carolina, july 23, 1983. Old time fiddle tunes penn state mechanical engineering. Here is my energetic arrangement of this standard for 3 violins. Slipperyhill is a member of the amazon associates program. Fiddle tune tabs resources fiddling for older folks. Companion enormous database of tunes in abc format, along with history. The millinerkoken book lists all cross tunes in the key of a aeae despite what cross tuned pitch the fiddler may have been using. Cripple creek guitar tab playalong, as performed by american fiddle tune.
A large number of henry reeds tunes are redolent of the cultural experience of the early frontier. Tourism information for historic city of cripple creek in. I tried to pick it up from recordings and youtubes, but got completely frustrated. Such tunes as ducks in the pond, cabin creek, folding down the sheets, over the waterfall, or frosty morning are perhaps the quintessential fiddle tunes of the old frontier. Great picking tunes for banjo ebook written by alan munde.
My mailing address is at the bottom of this page if you prefer to send a check. Visit the historic city of cripple creek, colorado. Many think the tune and title older than the turn of the 20th century labor disputes, and point out an equally likely candidate for the titles origins lie with the cripple creek that flows through grayson and carroll counties in virginia, emptying into the new river. Stacy phillips has done an outstanding job in his faithfulness to tradition. Home of gold mining and gambling in colorado, cripple creek is a mighty town of many exciting events, outdoor activities, mining tours, and much more.
This will be your first venture into the world of fiddle tunes tunes that were originally written and played on a fiddle. The book appeals to fiddlers, and it also provides violinists interested in oldtime tunes with sufficient resources to begin playing in styles different from classical music. Millinerkoken collection of american fiddle tunes larry. And, theres a lot of bluegrass books that feature this simple melody for beginners. Yup, i had almost given up hope entirely, till i found this book. It would be wonderful if mel bays the phillips collection of american fiddle tunes vol. Cripple creek click on the tune title to see or modify cripple creek s annotations. You will find it helpful in any playing situationfrom a square dance to an informal gathering of friends.
Im in my man cave near licking, missouri learning new fiddle tunes via lessons on you tube. Click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys to hear a synthesized midi file, or for a recording. Another gospel tune that is very widely known and would be good to pick out the melody using your ear if you are familiar with it and then add 3 finger rolls to it. Top 10 bluegrass songs you should know homestead on the. The historical and cultural significance of fiddle tunes. The book will be written in music staff notation and fiddle tablature. The flatpickers guide to oldtime music 160page book with 2 audio cds tim may and dan millers flatpickers guide to oldtime music is a 160 page book with 2 audio cds that is designed for flatpickers who want to study the rhythm playing of oldtime rhythm guitarists and learn how to play solos to 11 great oldtime fiddle tunes. Dan levenson has two books oldtime festival tunes for fiddle and mandolin and oldtime favorites for fiddle and mandolin which correspnd to his other two books of the same collections but for clawhammer banjo. Cripple creek is an oldtime appalachian folk song written on the fiddle but is widely known as a banjo tune due to earl scruggss recording of it on his record, foggy mountain banjo. Old time fiddle for the complete ignoramus immediately became the old timey rosetta stone i had been longing for. Salt creek fiddle tune a day day 203 salt creek is a cool old tune regardless of whether its played in a bluegrass or an oldtime setting. I shall share these delights with the fellow members of our fiddle and accordion club who may not otherwise alight upon them.
The old time fiddlers repertory larry warrens slippery. I am a tune book addict, surrounded by everproliferating heaps of them. If you havent checked it out yet, take a look at the fiddle tune tabs section in the top menu of this website. Two fragments of cripple creek were collected by e. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided. The first jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. Recorded by folklorist alan jabbour in 196667, when reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of. Beginner banjo pickers typically start out with this tune because it includes many of the elements involved in combining right and left hands when playing the. Great picking tunes for banjo by alan munde books on. If you learn just 1 fiddle tune, i suggest this be the one.
Cripple creek free mandolin tab and music simplymandolin. Cripple creek is a former gold mining camp located 44 miles 71 km southwest of colorado springs near the base of pikes peak. The content of this site is for educational use only and may not be reproduced in any form. The henry reed collection presents traditional fiddle tunes performed by henry reed of glen lyn, virginia. Spring creek gal plus a lot of standards arkansas traveler, bill cheetum etc. Visit the city of cripple creek today to plan your visit. If we have arrangements for a variety of instruments, but you would like to.
The purpose of the project is to inspire the discovery, teaching and learning of traditional music. Pete seeger praised the inclusion of 23 tunings in arts 1968 oak publications book oldtime mountain banjo. Gordon mccann has been collecting fiddle tunes and documenting fiddlerelated events in the ozarks, especially in the missouri ozarks. The city population was 1,189 at the 2010 united states census. Captains meriwether lewis and william clark and the corps of discovery explored and mapped the lands. And, it has some strong melodic similarities to red haired boy.
Cripple creek s wide and cripple creek s deep ill wade ole cripple creek before i sleep roll my britches up to the knees ill wade ole cripple creek when i please. The first solo i learned to pick on the 5string banjo in scruggsstyle was cripple creek. I went down to cripple creek to see what them girls had to eat i got drunk and fell against the wall ole corn licker was the cause of it all. I am using this book for my version kentucky fiddle tunes its in standard only though. Art groups the tunings into families and shows how they can be used, with various picking styles. In this fiddle lesson learn how to play the tune salt creek in the tune of a on the fiddle. The first reference to the tune as cripple creek is in the journal of american folklore, 1915. A massive collection of transcriptions representing the history of threefinger style fivestring banjo playing up to the styles culmination with earl scruggs coming on the scene. He named it black mountain blues after the name of a mountain in cumberland county, tenn. Cripple creek is the statutory city that is the county seat of teller county, colorado, united states. Christeson great article about rp christeson by mike christeson a short biography of rp christeson from voyager records charlie walden lots of tune downloads, printable sheet music, essays, tune lists, etc.
This piece of music was composed by american fiddle tune, emily crocker, john leavitt. And the people in the uotf are much the samequite a variety. Cripple creek theme code index 1h645 1h631 also known as. If you use the slipperyhill website, please consider donating to help pay for server costs and technical assistance. I have listed about a dozen tunes with tabs, added the file so you can download it, and posted a youtube video of the tune so you can listen to it if you are not familiar with it. Michelle is the author of two country living books. For listening i refer to john hartfords version on the speed of the old long bow. Art rosenbaums old time banjo book stefan grossmans. The enormous wealth of material in the fiddlers fakebook makes it more than a reference book to be left on the shelf. Fiddle tunes of the lewis and clark era is a selection of tunes popular during the period of exploration and early european settlement of the transmississippi west. Guitar tab playalong version based on the official, artistapproved notation.
You can study it page by page learning those tunes that particularly strike your fancy. Transcriptions and audio files of over 500 fiddle tunes from old recordings, festivals, jams and workshops, notated by john lamancusa. Im not sure, but i think it was probably the first melodicstyle solo i learned as well. Our arrangements for cripple creek can be seen below. When you love tunes you want to explore them in all ways possible and that of. My wife recently bought me this book as a gift and what a gift it is. Cripple creek by american fiddle tune guitar tab play. Table of contents for flatpicking essentials, volume 3 introduction a brief history of fiddle music in america flatpicking fiddle tunes on the guitar. You will also study major scale exercises, folded scale exercises, and various standard fiddle tune patterns and be shown how to apply them when developing your own arrangements and variations. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Crazy creek click on the tune title to see or modify crazy creek s annotations.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read great picking tunes for banjo. A really nice oldtime fiddle tune that was one of the tunes our group the old time fiddlers played at every performance when we first started performing in public 35 years ago. Mel bay the phillips collection of american fiddle tunes. The songs are in standard notation with just the melody written, most songs are written without doublestops. Brody provides a good background on fiddling and fiddle tunes in this wonderful selection of music.
This is one of those books that are a must have for serious fiddlers. The flatpickers guide to oldtime music by tim may and. This kind of handme down music is characteristic of the flavor of the jot f, passing tunes eartoear, generationtogeneration, connecting us with each other and our heritage. Famous fiddlin tunes qwikguide with cd by craig duncan. Learn this tune cripple creek from mel bays dirt simple fiddle book recording set. The 245 fiddle tunes on this web page can be found in printed form in the book the oldtime fiddlers repertory by r.