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| Session 1: Burl Hammons’s “Big Scioty” and Otis Burris’s “Fortune” |
| Session 1: Burl Hammons’s “Big Scioty” and Otis Burris’s “Fortune,” Part 1 |
In the first session of Flatpicking Old-Time Fiddle Tunes you’ll learn two tunes that illustrate a lot of what Scott will focus on in this workshop. West Virginia fiddler Burl Hammons is the source for the fiddle tune “Big Sciota” that has become a jam session favorite in bluegrass circles. His version of “Big Scioty”, however, is much more syncopated and illustrates the constant improvising that most old-time fiddlers engage in. Each A part is different from every other A part and the same is true of his B parts. Grayson County, Virginia, fiddler Otis Burris’s version of “Fortune,” which has more of a bluegrass feel, is the same, with a lot of the syncopated anticipations that characterize old-time fiddling as well as a lot of improvisation. In both cases, Scott has boiled down those variations and improvisations to two A parts and two B parts for each tune. You’ll learn “Big Scioty” in this video.
This will be the link for all six sessions:
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| Burl Hammons’s “Big Scioty” Notation/Tab PDF Download (Available to subscribers) |
| Otis Burris’s “Fortune” Notation/Tab (Available to subscribers) |
