Woo Hoo! We are half way through the year. It’s day 183 out of 366 days in this wonderful leap-year-full of Fiddle Tune a Day. Today, I felt like playing a tune that I don’t play often, but really enjoy. Hell Amongst the Yearlings is just a fun tune to play. It reminds me of […]
Uncle Herman’s Hornpipe
I learned this tune from Eric Levine when I was just a kid. He called it Herman’s Hornpipe. And it looks like there are a couple of other names for it too. I can see how Herman could become Hiram or vice versa, but how do you get Herman out of Miss Supertest’s Victory? That’s […]
Rabbit Where’s Your Mammy – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 56
This is just a cool old-time tune. Nothing too complicated, but it has a great melody. According to Fiddler’s Companion, there are three tunes by this name, that are related but not the same. I play it as a two part tune in D – AABB, and it’s not the same tune as Walk Along […]