Soldier's Joy / Fisher's Hornpipe-John Moore & Scott Gates

[FiddlinMikeRolland]

Nice mando playing! Great improv. I like that your licks always come back to the melody. For all those fiddle players who want to learn this tune, I teach this tune for fiddle on my channel. I threw in a bunch of advanced bluegrass licks too. I post a new lesson for fiddle, guitar, and mandolin there every single week! You can also get the full lesson and the sheet music on my website.

[PirateHeur]

i can't think of anything scotty can't play super-amazingly.

[MrJesprish]

i've meeted John Moore at Carlshamns Country Festival for 2 days ago :P

and i talked to him :P:P:P

[jimocarroll]

Betcha didn't know that John Moore was Chris Thile's first mandolin teacher.

Pick up a copy of the album by the band "California" and listen to the "California Traveler". Brilliant.

[Summerlandtopcat]

I had the good fortune to see John Moore at the Sore Fingers bluegrass camp (UK) what a beautiful tone he has, also seemed a great character!

[unclecharley]

WOW.

[webbfeet65]

so good ,i hope to play about half as good as you 2, great job, thanks for being an inspiration

[mandobaron]

do i spy a capo above the nut?

[agates11]

No, Scott straps off the headstock...that is a strap

[mandobaron]

good deal. i am also strap off the headstock, better balanced.

thanks

baron

[giggleblaggle]

You guys are amazing

[vithefiddler]

Nice groove guys. I like the improv too. :)

[DKMScott]

@vithefiddler <3

[robmanic44]

People often call this bluegrass music, but it's really mountain music. Bluegrass is more modern.

[chirfu]

If there were any pickers in the mountains playing this well we would be way past bluegrass these days... I don't think it is either mountain or bluegrass. They are mountain songs made popular by bluegrass players... this is more jazzy than either bluegrass or mountain in my opinion

[popoaggie]

These are fiddle tunes, first made popular a couple hundred years ago in Ireland and England by fiddle players. Rumor has it Beehtovan might have penned Fischer's Hornpipe,(the second tune). The immigrants brought them to U.S shores and then into the mountains.

[DKMScott]

@chirfu Actually, they're fiddle tunes from Ireland. Sure, they were played in the back mountains, but they were written in and spread from Ireland and surrounding areas. As far as how they are played in this video, it's floaty (maybe even somewhat jazz-influenced) improvisation over old Irish fiddle tunes, which were made popular by well-known bluegrass players (not to mention by average musicians through the oral tradition).

[MiaXOXOAna]

Just call it bluegrass mountain music.

[popoaggie]

Just call it good!

[generubinaudio]

Good job Scott and John!

[spgokc78]

Yessir.....them boys can pick some!! I've seen John Moore many time in Guthrie.  A truly amazing player and a nice guy!

[Ozarksiren]

John awesome as always........ hope to see him at the Oklahoma BG Fest in Oct........ that is some pickin.

[watsthatsmell]

awsome!