ELCBK said
@GregW -

I really don't need to get myself sidetracked even more (I want to learn 1 of these Mardi Gras tunes), but...

Know any good tunes, with altered tuning, about Raccoons? 

Would be great to learn right now - think one ripped off half of 1 of our eave vents the other night.  Glad it found out it couldn't go anywhere... or maybe it left just because Kevin banged on the wall. (lol) 

 

- Emily

  

I do not..BUT..the good thing about this type of music is you can record a bunch of arpeggios and scales runs for 32 bars..make sure the in the A part bar 8 ends slightly different than bar 4.. and the B part..bars 17 through 32 are somewhat different than the A part but close enough to sound like the same tune..make sure bar 32 is the same as bar 4..  call it Racoon ate the Eve   and get a composer badge!  🤔😋😉😁

@elcbk me too!  i like playing around with scales and arpeggios like that to a backing.  every once in a while im like..wait a MINUTE... thats almost something.  one workshop i watched was about tune writing.. Im not really serious about it but got interested.  One thing they said was to always record...no matter how insignificant..come back later and revist that little snippett..  maybe add to it and after a while you never know...

as far as your original question there is a group of young ladies out there that play fiddle/cello called Ginger Majority...they have a post with racoon in the name thats REALLY good.  sounds like a jazz and irish trad fusion tune.  think youll like.  

whatever we come up with tune wise we HAVE to have use either possum or racoon or greyhound in the name..  cats are over used.  lol

heres a good greyhound tune...   see how i slid this tune into the coversation.. 

nice 00-15 there chester.  THE choice for the singer songwriters.  and yes ...it sounds like dad may be AEAE would be a quick guess since you mentioned it.

Hard to tell when the tune swapped to palmers gate aint it?!  here is palmers gate played by The fiddler for we banjo 3..  good stuff

@elcbk did this one tonight in AEAE.. 2 fiddle tracks a guitar and a kick drum.. but you may not be able to hear that.  I can't say I can play this really fast but took it slower than I can play.... dont really have a good old timey bowing going on but it is what it is at this point.

@elcbk  thanks...too kind..appreciate it!  to be honest up until yesterday i hadnt played that or cross tuned since  last year..as you can tell.. feel like its too choppy and doesnt flow as far fiddling..but consider it a practice recording..lol..  mixing wise track 1 which is that overly loud fiddle slightly panned left shouldve had volume pulled back a bit.  track 2 i just droned on strings until 2 nd repeat.  feel like it worked...i intentionally made the guutar and kick drum low volume..wanted it there in background somewhere.  thought the reverb was about right..thats difficult to get for me...i never can repeat from recording to recording..even if i save settings as a template.  part of the learning process.

ive tried a few tunings..cant remember though..GDGD seems like one and ADAD maybe..or couldve been ADAE..and DDAD...that one on bonapartes retreat.  may post that next.

if i do a video like you say it takes alot more time..more involved..but ill keep in mind for something down the road.  thanks for the suggestion though!  gives me something to work on!  stay tuned...lol  your recent postings got me motivated to revist these!