Coleman's March
Melody
This is SUCH a great tune! It works well as an up-tempo burner, but I like it best slow and elegiac.
I use a bowing technique in this video called the pulse that we may not have talked about yet; just watch the direction of the bow and don't sweat rearticulations within bow strokes unless you want to.
Here's the tune played in the center of a medley by Lissa Schneckenburger, a New England fiddler and colleague who learned it from the same guys I did up in Maine. She plays the endings a little bit differently, so don't get confused:
I use a bowing technique in this video called the pulse that we may not have talked about yet; just watch the direction of the bow and don't sweat rearticulations within bow strokes unless you want to.
Here's the tune played in the center of a medley by Lissa Schneckenburger, a New England fiddler and colleague who learned it from the same guys I did up in Maine. She plays the endings a little bit differently, so don't get confused:
Sample Accompaniments
(Intonation is a little wonky here, sorry - recorded cello was tuned slightly differently than live cello!)