Ora Lee

Learned from Bob Carlin's version. Banjo is a probable Buckbee after the style of Dobson, unmarked, probably circa 1890's., haven't put this banjo on my website yet. G tune, fiddle in GDAE.

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Music

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• clawhammer
• banjo
• old
• time
• fiddle

[5000eclipse]

19fiddlinscott57 - thanks for the kind words. The fiddle is tuned to the GDAE intervals, but I tuned it by ear so it's not right on those notes. I just checked it with a pitch pipe.... it's down about 1 fret (1/2 note) from standard tuning.

[19fiddlinscott57]

Say, is that fiddle in standard tuning. Man, I just love this old tune and really appreciate your doing it so well.

[5000eclipse]

@19fiddlinscott57 - thanks for the kind words. The fiddle is tuned to the GDAE intervals, but I tuned it by ear so it's not right on those notes. I just checked it with a pitch pipe.... it's down about 1 fret (1/2 note) from standard tuning.

[5000eclipse]

19fiddlinscott57 - thanks for the kind words. The fiddle is tuned to the GDAE intervals, but I tuned it by ear so it's not right on those notes. I just checked it with a pitch pipe.... it's down about 1 fret (1/2 note) from standard tuning.

[5000eclipse]

@19fiddlinscott57 - thanks for the kind words. The fiddle is tuned to the GDAE intervals, but I tuned it by ear so it's not right on those notes. I just checked it with a pitch pipe.... it's down about 1 fret (1/2 note) from standard tuning.

[5000eclipse]

@19fiddlinscott57 - thanks for the kind words. The fiddle is tuned to the GDAE intervals, but I tuned it by ear so it's not right on those notes. I just checked it with a pitch pipe.... it's down about 1 fret (1/2 note) from standard tuning.

[lemoncoolr]

I think I've been listening to this for 24 hours now. Can't stop!

[5000eclipse]

Nerohj - Bob Carlin put a version of this tune on his "Banging and Sawing" CD. There are lots of good tunes on this CD in addition to Ora Lee. I think it took me a couple of months to learn this tune.... not an easy one to play, but a nice sounding one.

[nerohj]

I was also having a hard time getting the thumbing/hammeron/pulloffs all sounding like it does in your video. i'm still not very happy with the way I play it, but it's a crude approximation. i start to get used to it until i listen to this video again, and it reminds me of all the parts i kind of just fake :)

any idea where i could find a copy of bob carlins version?