Some interesting videos that hell understand what Old Time is and how it relates and differs from Bluegrass. First, in thw words of Bill Bpnroe on what made up Bluegrass..


"It's got a hard drive to it. It's Scotch bagpipes and old-time fiddlin'. It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz and it has a high lonesome sound. It's plain music that tells a story. It's played from my heart to your heart, and it will touch you." - Bill Monroe

Kentucky's State Bluegrass Song: "Blue Moon of Kentucky"


ON a more technical definition on what differentiated Bluegrass from Old Time music...

"Monroe is most famous for creating bluegrass music (although it was not labeled as such until many years later). Despite the notion that bluegrass is a traditional style, Monroe mixed elements of old-time string bands with the blues, rural spiritual singing, and jazz solos. He abandoned the breakdowns and "hootin' and hollerin'" that characterized rural string band music for carefully rehearsed numbers that incorporated virtuoso solos by each player. Monroe also pushed the mandolin to the foreground where the fiddle usually dominated country string-bands."

Bill Monroe: Creating a Tradition


Videos...

Appalachian Music Part B --> Gives some insight on came to be known as Old Time Music


From a Bill MOnroe/Bluegrass Docu

Bill Monroe on Bluegrass Music Pt A -->Gives some insight into the old British Isles derived ballads/fiddle music brought to Appalachia. Also mentiones the music from the Baptist Church


Bill Monroe on Bluegrass Music Pt B --> Basically describing what we now know as Old Time Music. WEst African derived syncopations/ Banjo & Banjo frailing styles/Blusey Fiddle meets British Isles derived melodys/fiddle music. Monroe also mentions his Blues influece and one of his teachers, Arnold Shultz

Bill Monroe on Bluegrass Music Pt C --> talks about the transition from the old frailing styles to the Earl Scruggs style that contained the rolling syncopated Ragtimey picking


Bill Monroe on Bluegrass Music Pt D -->talks about Bluegrass having the Jazz-like solo breakdowns which didn't exist in Old Time music