{"id":112222,"date":"2020-01-18T01:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T09:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=112222"},"modified":"2023-05-31T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:56:25","slug":"learn-to-play-the-fiddle-tune-st-annes-reel-on-guitar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/learn-to-play-the-fiddle-tune-st-annes-reel-on-guitar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to Play the Fiddle Tune &#8220;St. Anne&#8217;s Reel&#8221; on Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This flatpickers\u2019 favorite is generally agreed to be of French-Canadian origin, but it has become so ubiquitous at old-time, Celtic, and bluegrass jam sessions that most people probably can\u2019t remember where they first learned it. I\u2019m pretty sure I first heard Seattle guitarist Dudley Hill play the song, which is included on his fiddle-tune col\u00adlection,\u00a0<em>From a Northern Family<\/em>\u00a0(1976). Other definitive flatpicking performances include Dan Crary\u2019s version on\u00a0<em>Jammed If I Do<\/em>\u00a0(1994) and Kenny Smith\u2019s rendition on\u00a0<em>Studebaker<\/em>\u00a0(1997).<\/p>\n<p>Fiddlers play \u201cSt. Anne\u2019s Reel\u201d in the key of D, and it can be played effectively on the guitar in D without a capo or capoed up to the second fret and played out of C position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0112\/7482\/files\/St.-Annes-Reel-excerpt.jpg?w=1290&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.acousticguitar.com\/products\/fiddle-tune-essentials-complete-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Excerpted from Fiddle Tune Essentials<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This flatpickers&#8217; favorite is ubiquitous at old-time, Celtic, and bluegrass jams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":104272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"This flatpickers' favorite is ubiquitous at old-time, Celtic, and bluegrass jams.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1661,1655,1151],"tags":[1049],"ppma_author":[1569],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Learn-to-Play-the-Fiddle-Tune-\u201cSt.-Anne\u2019s-Reel\u201d-on-Guitar.png?fit=628%2C358&ssl=1","authors":[{"term_id":1569,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"scott-nygaard","display_name":"Scott Nygaard","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scott-nygaard-weekly-workout-circleof5ths.png","url2x":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scott-nygaard-weekly-workout-circleof5ths.png"},"user_url":"https:\/\/scottnygaard.com\/","last_name":"","first_name":"","description":"Grammy-winning guitarist Scott Nygaard has decades of teaching, performing, and recording experience. He is a former editor of <i>Acoustic Guitar<\/i> magazine and the author of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/store.acousticguitar.com\/collections\/songs-1\/products\/fiddle-tunes-and-folk-songs\">Fiddle Tunes and Folk Songs<\/i><\/a>."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138824,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112222\/revisions\/138824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112222"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=112222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}