Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones Play Happy Hollow - Fiddle/Guitar

[@dougiemartin5995]

Love listening to you play together. So good to listen to real music. Keep it up.

[@AnneLinn-b1k]

Thank you for providing such a great example of playing this tune (and the tips). While you are playing in Calico, our jam group plays in regular cross tuning, so we obviously don't have to retune. still a great tune. Hard to get all 12 or so musicians to do anything, much less retune in a jam!

[@wvg4800]

Takes me right back to the holler. Just beautiful...

[@evelynovercash1147]

Nice tune.

[@robertlawson4306]

Looking forward to seeing more of you folks in the future. ...made my day....Good Lord bless you overflowing

[@gordongiobanni7543]

Absolutely love this

[@amynatzke1050]

Well done! Thank you.

[@countryalexander7175]

Wonderful! It has a sort of cajun touch! Swedish Anna Lindblad played it at one of our oldtime jams i Stockholm, led by Rachel Eddy.

[@michaeltodd3225]

That’s great Erynn. Well, if you’re in the annex area second Wednesday of December drop by! We’re in room beside the bar at tranzac. 7:30 onwards. Lovely to hear from you. Ps have retired from York...thank god. 😎

[@hickoryjack55]

Will keep that in the memory banks. Congrats on retirement Michael!

[@evelynovercash1147]

Great tune.

[@robertlawson4306]

God bless you for your time , I've been looking for a lesson , something kinda broke down slowed down...heard Bruce Molliski do this one and thougt it was done in a cross tuning of sort's but never could figure it out on my own.....thank you thank you thank you good good folks

[@twilson6784]

Thank you.

[@michael_homan]

Thank you!!! Do you have a patreon?

[@hickoryjack55]

Yes - we are on Patreon! Carl and I teach a tune a month on four instruments (fiddle, guitar, mandolin and banjo) for $6 a month and provide charts and transcriptions for $10 a month. Plus we have other fun, bonus stuff too included as well. www.patreon.com

[@mikehillas]

I've been working on this tune and listening to various versions. You have a really nice sound to yours--very smooth and relaxed, not choppy. Is there any particular style of bowing you're using, or did just use what sounds best for the tune?

[@hickoryjack55]

Hi Mike, Thank you! I use a combination of bowing patterns on Happy Hollow from saw-stroke to shuffle bow with some syncopated 3-note slurs. I also add a gentle backbeat to give it groove. Carl and I are teaching a 4 week online tune class starting Nov 18/19/20, 2024 and we also teach on Patreon.com if you look up our names or Dittyville. Both are inexpensive. The zoom class has a nice community vibe with a good group of fiddlers who come back again and again. I'll be posting info today on our Facebook page or you can go to Patreon to check out our offerings there. Lots of bowing and fiddling secrets shared. Fiddle on! Erynn

[@mikehillas]

@@hickoryjack55 Thanks for your quick response the good information you gave me. I noticed you seemed to be using some type of shuffle in parts of the tune, but wanted to confirm it. I'm going to slow down the tune and really watch your bow arm closely--I'd like to try to incorporate some shuffles into my own playing.

[@michaeltodd3225]

Hello Erynn! So nice to find you by accident on KZbin! Lovely tune. Still playing Irish at the tranzac...learning some great new ( old tunes)! Are you based in U S now?

[@hickoryjack55]

Hey Michael! Good to hear from you. I've been in Galax, VA for about 11 years now but will be in Toronto this Dec to visit. Keep on playing! cheers, Erynn

[@laurabethSalter]

Thanks for sharing and hi from Glasgow, Scotland! I'm learning this tune on mandolin in standard tuning - would you ever retune the mando to play tunes like this Carl?

[@hickoryjack55]

I haven't done it but the main thing to think about is string gauges if you tune up to A--- lighter strings might be warranted. I'm sure that would work fine... Having more than one mandolin would be great too so you can leave one in a different tuning all the time . Keep in mind too that another option, and probably what I would do is tune down a step or even 1 &1/2 steps to try it out on your mandolin. Should sound great and let you explore the fingerings as well as not stress your instrument. You might try some tunes in cross G--- G----D -----G-----G and go from there. Skip Gorman has done some recordings on an old Washburn Mando (Cow Camp Mandolin) that he retuned... you might check that out. Hope that helps ever so slightly.

[@laurabethSalter]

@@hickoryjack55 thank so much for this response - i can't believe I missed it! I do play in GDGD now and again, so I'll maybe just keep my spare mando on that tuning for a while. I love the sound of the open fiddle tunings. I'll definitely check out Skip Gorman's stuff. Thanks again, and I hope you're safe and well. Laura-Beth