Finally had a good to day to play some music outside on the deck. If you have never been on that deck it is big enough and sturdy enough to hold an entire band and have room to hold a square dance. Just two of us today however.
Jerry Anderson came up from Volga, SD with his fiddle and we spent a most enjoyable afternoon playing some tunes. Maple Sugar, Echos of the Ozarks and some twin fiddling on Black Velvet Waltz were just some of the tunes we went through. It gave me a chance to not only grab my mandolin, but to pick up my guitar and practice my "4 chords and a capo" method of guitar backup.
We even tried a few tunes we didn't know, just to make it more exciting but we won't talk about those until we have them ready to trot out into public.
Jerry even tried out a little chording on his fiddle and survived the experience. We used Possum up a Gum Stump for that since that is one tune that Jerry was learning. His book of tablature had some licks in it that worked for rudimentary chords and once he saw what was going on and how it the notes related to the chords, away he went. Now the poor guy has some music theory and chords that he has to worry about keeping straight for backup as well as just playing the tunes.
Thank you to my lovely wife Penny and daughter Isabelle (also lovely) for supper and fresh banana bread and for snapping a picture of the two musicaholics. And yes I am to lazy to even take off the tie after church although you will notice that I did untuck the shirt.
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