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It's a great tune! I learnt 3 notes and spend last night drunkenly Jamming along to all the different versions on YouTube
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well, it does happen
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I love old fiddle tunes and I also enjoy the history and stories that go along with them.
So, a little about this tune. Bile them cabbage down is a little over 400 years old and started as an African slave tune. Folks on both sides of the plantation enjoyed and shared music, whites learned black tunes and vice versa. The mix we hear today comes from mainly Scots-Irish tunes and black hoe downs.
Just as we'll never know just how Paganini sounded, we will also never know how many changes this tune went through before the habit of notating them came along and arrived at this version. Funny enough, even though this tune is common it still has many variations.
See, it isnt just old classical that stands the test of time 
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VIDEOS!!!! WooHOO!!!! Now us noobs have a guideline to follow. Yea! Only downside? Look at whom I am suppose to sound like. (Implying FM) -sheesh-
FM
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Can I accept this challenge?
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Challenge accepted!
And after I master violin 4…
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or
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You can do it…. great use of the emoticons!!!! wooo hoooo
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made it through part 3. almost up to speed. Just a bit more. One question. The click track has a bass in the backgroung. Do you think it would be ok, to record it with an actual double bass or are we only using fiddles and viola's???
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You play the bass?
Let's take it to a vote. I originally wanted to use exclusively fiddles and violas but I love having a base line.
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I'll put my vote in for bass, figure its an old time tune and more the merrier
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A Bass line would be cool. But eojo2 has to dress like a chicken…I like that idea! lol
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One of the guys i play with does these old time camps where they all dress like it's the 1700's. I'll see if i can't get him in a video. As for the chicken, hmm, playing is gonna be hard enough.
Ok, I stilll need to figure out how to do the sprend thing
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If we can do a bass line, it might give the music an extra dimension without detracting from Fiddle and viola
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gkeese said
A Bass line would be cool. But eojo2 has to dress like a chicken…I like that idea! lol
he might have to dress like a chicken but that doesn't mean we have to see it!
haa haa haa haa
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It would be great to add a bass!
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I vote "yay" to bass,,, or guitar,,, or mando,,, or jug,,, or washboard,,, or donkey bray!
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Bass it is then. 
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Hey, FM: can we do hybrid parts? In other words, is it acceptable to do a combo of the sections that we're able to do. For example, if I can do the first half of part 3 and the second half of part 4, is it OK if I jump from one part to the other in one recording?
Or would you prefer that the parts or sections of parts to be separate files?
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KindaScratchy said
Hey, FM: can we do hybrid parts? In other words, is it acceptable to do a combo of the sections that we're able to do. For example, if I can do the first half of part 3 and the second half of part 4, is it OK if I jump from one part to the other in one recording?Or would you prefer that the parts or sections of parts to be separate files?
Im just gonna play the dam thing
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KindaScratchy said
Hey, FM: can we do hybrid parts? In other words, is it acceptable to do a combo of the sections that we're able to do. For example, if I can do the first half of part 3 and the second half of part 4, is it OK if I jump from one part to the other in one recording?Or would you prefer that the parts or sections of parts to be separate files?
Yes Dianne, absolutely you can. It all fits together perfectly that way.
You can even make up a part if you like, just test it with the midi files so that the parts match if you are uncertain.
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Great! Right now, unless I have some sort of breakthrough in the next week or so, here's what I'm going to do:
There are six repeating sections. I can play sections of 1-4 of part 3, section 5 of part 4 and section 6 of part 2. (I might even be able to do the double stops in that last section…maybe.)
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