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Hello everyone..
Let's have a Summertime Party.
Is there a song on the free Fiddlerman sheet music that you have been wanting to learn and play? Or maybe you already know it and want to share... brag much?
PICK A SONG!!! ANY SONG!!!
okay not any song..from the Fiddlerman Free Sheet Music List(click)
Join the party... tackle a song from the Fiddlerman List and use this thread to brag and party. Any level song... go for it.
New members.WHAT IS A PARTY thread? It's just a "thread" where we pick a song (from this list click here) and we post the song HERE. it can be an Audio or Video. (YouTube works best). SoundCloud works good for audio. Post as many songs from the list as you want.
Feel free to start posting... let's see how long we can keep this going.
WHO will be first???
Vibrato Desperato.... Desperately seeking vibrato
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Fun! I currently don't have room in my brain for anything but House of the Rising Sun. I should be ready to record that any day now though!
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@Just4Fun - congrats on the HOUSE Project. This party will be open and waiting for you when you are done recording.....
I am "HOUSE" Challenged but this is my week to get it DOWN....
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Ooh count me in Toni! Are the études part of it or does it have to be from that specific list? 
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@SilverHalide Anything that FM has posted on the site/under Sheet music is perfect for this party. Any level... even scales...That way everyone can post even from their first visit.
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Yay !!!! 
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Great idea, Toni! @coolpinkone Ohhh, but what song to choose...
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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I'll give it a try. Good idea.
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Oh GREAT idea Toni! How fun. Off to look right now.
Opportunity is often missed because it wears suspenders and looks like hard work.
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Spot-on @coolpinkone 
I seriously recommend not copying my mistakes. D'oh - 
Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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Thanks for the party Toni.
If there are pieces that you would like to play that are not on that page, send them to me or request them and I'll see what I can do about adding some new sheet music. I can't add anything and everything because the music needs to be public domain, fair use, traditional....or similar.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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@coolpinkone brilliant. There's some really nice pieces to choose from.
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SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE A PARTY!!
TO SWEETEN THE POT
THIS PARTY WILL HAVE A PRIZE!
FOR EVERY VIDEO/AUDIO THAT YOU POST, YOUR NAME WILL BE ENTERED IN A DRAWING TO WIN.
ONE WINNER WILL BE SELECTED TO WIN A......
A FIDDLERMAN HAT
STARTING JULY 1 - AUGUST 30 (THE LAST DAY TO SUBMIT FOR A PRIZE, BUT WE WILL KEEP THE PARTY GOING AS LONG AS WE WANT)
*** NO LIMITS TO THE NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS***
Vibrato Desperato.... Desperately seeking vibrato
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Dammit all Toni ( am I allowed to say that ? ) @coolpinkone - I already got one of those darned hats from the FM shop.......... and it made absolutely no difference at all to my playing... I had kinda thought I might just have had some kind of brain transplant in the process of wearing it - but - nope... it didn't work.... LOL
LOL folks - kidding with yah..... PLAY YOUR SUMMER TUNES... go for it...
BillyG
I seriously recommend not copying my mistakes. D'oh -
Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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A different color in that case Bill. LOL
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
a fiddlerman hat!! oh now it's really on!!
*warming up the printer*
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I can't decide on a tune/song! If this is going to go on all summer, I might just have to do more than one.
I have a question for Pierre @Fiddlerman : Why does the title at the top of the Scotland the Brave sheet music say "EF the Brave?" Just curious.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
Regulars
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coolpinkone said
STARTING JULY 1 - AUGUST 30 (THE LAST DAY TO SUBMIT FOR A PRIZE, BUT WE WILL KEEP THE PARTY GOING AS LONG AS WE WANT)
*** NO LIMITS TO THE NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS***
Oh it's ON! I already play several of those. Now there WILL be more! I went and counted. I already play 8 of them.
Opportunity is often missed because it wears suspenders and looks like hard work.
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Well, someone has to represent the beginning fiddlers and violinists, and I guess I might as well start...
I've been playing for a few months and just started taking lessons in June. My teacher very rightfully put me back at the beginning of Suzuki Book 1; my assignment for next week is pay special attention to posture while playing through #3 (Song of the Wind).
When I saw the Summer Party (FM Sheet Music Party) invitation, I was excited. None of the House of the Rising Sun versions are possible for me right now – even the easiest among them uses fingerings that don't appear until later in Suzuki. But there are a few pieces on the Fiddlerman sheet music page that seemed within reach. I decided upon Go Tell Aunt Rhody.
I posted both the Fiddlerman version of Go Tell Aunt Rhody, as well as the Suzuki version, which is listed below under the title Come Ye Sinners. It is #4 in Suzuki, so I haven't played it with my teacher yet. The Suzuki tune differs somewhat from that in the song used to eulogize the grey goose, but the Suzuki melody exactly follows the old (public domain) version of the hymn Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy. On the Fiddlerman version, I didn't exactly follow the suggested bowing but instead bowed it in more of a beginning Suzuki style, alternating down and up bows.
This is the first time I recorded myself playing, and the recording sounds more awful than it does when I hear myself while playing! Early Suzuki emphasizes the A and E strings so I haven't used the lower strings much, and my D string seems to sound especially “buzzy” in the Fiddlerman version. But at least, it does sort of sound like a funeral dirge...
My goal is to post again (not necessarily the same song) towards the end of the Summer FM Sheet Music Party and show improvement. But for now, this is what I sound like:
Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Fiddlerman version)
Played on a Mendini MV200.
Thanks to @coolpinkone for getting this started and including beginners. Laissez les bon temps rouler!
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