Midnight on the Water

[rainharper62]

It's one of the prettiest fiddle tunes i ever heard too-i play it all the time on my ham. dulcimer, and you played it well! ty for posting this-liked hearing your 'version' of it-do you notice everyone has their own intpretation of it?-yours is real sweet/pretty/sad-ty

[slithyj]

Great tone to this one. Liked it.

[vithefiddler]

@slithyj Thank you very much.

[Tauvy]

Hey there! Good job on the song! Just FYI - Benny was my grandfather and Luke my great grandfather - Luke was Benny's dad :)

[vithefiddler]

Hey Tauvy,

That's awesome. I got to jam with Jerry at the Grand Masters a couple of years ago. It was a great time.

Thanks for the Comment!

Vi

[vithefiddler]

Hey Tauvy, That's awesome. I guess I must have gotten my story mixed up. At least I got the right name. I never got a chance to meet Benny, but I did get to jam with Jerry at the Grand Master's a couple of years ago. It was a great time!

Vi

[Tauvy]

Awesome, Jerry is my dad! :) Glad you had a good time. I also never got a chance to meet him, as he passed about 3 months after I was born - but the legacy is immortal and it's that part of my heritage that drives the music in me today.

[vithefiddler]

Great to meet you Tauvy. It's so cool to have music in your family. Hopefully we will meet in person someday. Tell Jerry that Vi says Hi!

[shonagon4]

Just starting to work on this tune. On the B part, seventh measure, the F-sharp to A -- Can you tell me what note you're playing with the F-sharp and which strings you're using? Thanks!

[vithefiddler]

Tuning on this tune is DDAD, and the f# to a is played a couple of different ways. On the middle D string, I either play it 2-2 shifting from first to 3rd position, or 2-4 staying in first position.

Looking forward to your post of Midnight on the Water.

[vithefiddler]

its 2 and 4 on the D string

[slevin14]

thats awesome! theres a different adaptation of this song by trent freemen, you should look at some of his tunes

[Mandolin1944]

Nice. How are you tuned on the fiddle? Like the previous comment I like the drone that you have going on. Cool.

[vithefiddler]

I Tuned DDAD on this one.

[Oaky9]

i just think its lovely

coming from another violinist myself, would love to see more of you Vi

xx

Oaky9

[vithefiddler]

Thanks Oaky. Much appreciated.

[albertaviking]

That is pretty cool with the drone thing going on there!