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Day 30: Swing I made it! This one is called “Fruitvale Bounce” and it seems to swing well enough. Thanks one more time to Tristan Scroggins for the open invitation to join him on this journey. I’ve had a great time writing these tunes and listening to what everyone else in the quarantune challenge community has come up with. I’m excited to revisit some of these and recorded more fully realized ...

Day 28: Waves. I found my way to this idea via the Skype ringtone, which inspired Eb as the key, and messed with some weird loops in GarageBand that included the word "wave" for inspiration (not featured here). Creativity works in mysterious ways, and this tune feels unfinished, but here it is, y’all! I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days as part of the #quarantunechallenge. Follow my journey he...

The Zoom'n Stomp Day 29: Shout Chorus. I took the weekend off! So, day 31, tune 29. I got into the weeds on this one. I’m tempted to count this as day 30’s swing tune due to the effort, but I’ll do a new one for the last day! Dedicated to everyone spending their lives on Zoom. I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days as part of the #quarantunechallenge. Follow my journey here or on Instagram: insta...

"Trend Lines" Day 27: Old Time I don’t really know how to old-old time, but Tristan Scroggins made this the prompt so I faked my way through it. I crammed for the test by studying a Bruce Molsky video he did for Strings Magazine (link below). It felt like it was going ok, but it’s taking a lot of brainpower to make my bow arm come even close to the right feel. Maybe I’ll have to do 30 days of o...

"The Hole in the Ground" Day 26: Free Square. I wasn’t sure how I’d handle the lack of constraints for this one, but this tune practically wrote itself. Named after the gigantic hole our dog has been digging in our backyard apparently one 30 minute walk per day just isn’t enough exercise. I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days as part of the #quarantunechallenge. Follow my journey here or on Inst...

"Cross it Off" Day 25: Alternate Tuning There are several standard alternate tunings on fiddle, but I got weird on this one and tried a tuning I’ve always been curious about, G-g-D-d, where the D and A strings are crossed over below the bridge and above the nut. This tuning is used in Biber’s Rosary Sonata XI, “The Resurrection,” and I found it to be very confusing to navigate at first. I’m not...

There are all sorts of fiddle tunes that are dances, but my mind went back to living in Austin, TX and playing for dancers at places like The White Horse and Sam's Town Point. I aimed toward a shuffle feel (imagine that bass behind me is walking) and ended up with this tune, called The Pleasant Valley. I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days as part of the #quarantunechallenge. Follow my journey h...

"In The Clouds" Day 23 - Mountains I read this prompt last night. Early this morning, while drifting in and out of sleep, the first few bars of this tune popped into my head. Somehow I remembered them 8 hours later, so we have this spritely tune. If this one hadn’t worked out, my idea was to listen to some of the Stanley Brothers' mountain music for 30 minutes, possibly while napping, to see if...

"Stolen Bounty" Day 22: Bluegrass I went down the rabbit hole on this one and spent both too much and not quite enough time on it. Written and, for once, performed on mandolin (and fiddle. and guitar). This one leans very heavily on existing tunes, and I hope I didn’t steal it from one of my challenge-mates. The title follows, “Stolen Bounty,” which is also certainly stolen. I'm writing a tune ...

Day 21: ABBA Catching up again! So that’s the title. Got the form I think. Another in a series of tunes composed on the mandolin and recorded on the fiddle I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days as part of the #quarantunechallenge. Follow my journey here or on Instagram: andylentz

"Island Time" Day 19: Island. I don't have a lot to say about this one. I was mostly thinking about the Pura Vida lifestyle in Costa Rica (not an island, I know) and came up with this tune. I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days as part of the #quarantunechallenge. Follow my journey here or on Instagram: andylentz

"Skip Along Home" Day 16: Only 5 Notes. I took this prompt literally and didn’t use any octaves, which made it challenging to write an interesting tune. I originally had a minor tune rolling along, but switched gears partway through to this melody, currently entitled “Skip Along Home.” I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days as part of the #quarantunechallenge. Follow my journey here or on Instagr...

"Etude" I dialed back my expectations as I am *not* a classical composer. I also didn't work too hard on the title. I ended up with this simple piece that I finished and recorded today. One of my students, Nico, is working on Minuet 2, so I had Bach and the key of G on the brain, and I started messing around with melodies loosely in that style. Very loosely! I'm writing a tune a day for 30 days...

Quarantune Challenge - Day 15: Sad - "Down and Out"

Quarantune Challenge - Day 17: Happy - "Oakland Hornpipe"

Quarantune Challenge - Day 14: Waltz - "The Spun Yarn Waltz"

Quarantune Challenge - Day 13: Death - "Tango al final"

Quarantune Challenge Day 10: Minor - "Eventual Breakthrough"

Quarantune Challenge Day 9: Future - "The Future is Funky"

Quarantune Challenge Day 8: Love Song - Untitled

Quarantune Challenge Day 2: ABA' - "The Cheerful Downpour"

Quarantune Challenge Day 4: Irish - "Lament for the Isolate"

Quarantune Challenge Day 6: Modulation - "The Winding Walk"

The Lifted Spirits - Sample Reel

Andy Lentz - Pop Sample Reel

Theda’s Creek

The Lifted Spirits - Celtic Duo

Sleigh Ride on Fiddle - Christmas 2017 - Andy Lentz

Rattlesnake Ridge - Andy Lentz & Simon Flory