The old-time fiddle tune “St. Anne’s Reel” has become a jam session standard, a favorite of guitars, mandolin players, and fiddlers. Scott’s version is inspired by the playing of Russ Barenberg, who plays with a great syncopated bounce and, rather than improvising on the chord changes to create variations, as many contemporary players do, plays variations on the melody that keep the original drive and melodic shape of the tune. You’ll learn St. Anne’s Reel in D without a capo, and Scott’s version includes a pass through the tune in the lower octave, for which he tunes down to dropped-D tuning. You’ll learn the A part and a variation that starts up at the fifth and seventh frets in this video.
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"St. Anne's Reel" (Available to subscribers)
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