Fiddle Tune Project

I'll admit it. I've become slightly addicted to fiddle tunes. Problem is there are so many good ones but we only seem to do the same ones at our regular jams, so I've decided to set myself a goal to try to learn one fiddle tune every month until... well, I guess until I know them all!

So far, I've managed to pick up Bill Cheatham, Blackberry Blossom and Soldier's Joy at the jams.

And these ones, not because they popped up at a jam, but because I stumbled across them on YouTube and made some kind of effort to learn them:

Jerusalem's Ridge (this was actually the first tune I tackled... ever... because I liked this so much)
Salt Creek (apparently one of our banjo players knows this one but no-one ever seems to play it at jams)
St Anne's Reel
Whiskey Before Breakfast

And then there is the fiddle tune I've just learnt for the month of August, Big Sciota. Still at a loss for how to pronounce it (Skee-oh-tah? Shee-oh-tah? Skoh-tah?) and every time someone announces it in a YouTube video they sort of mumble over it and I still don't catch it! Just polishing this one up and then I'll post it.

That just leaves the ever growing list of fiddle tunes I'm yet to learn:

Cherokee Shuffle

Forked Deer

Wheel Hoss

Billy In The Lowground

Temperance Reel

I'm sure there are many more good ones I'm yet to discover but that'll do for now. Right, back to pickin'. Wish me luck!