Here is another neat book.  This one came by way of Marc Smith (trapdoor here).  I like the Ragtime Study on page 60.  

The book mostly includes previously published sheet music, many with 2nd banjo parts.

If you are like me you will get really excited when you get to page 64 and see "Sounds From the Cottonfields, A Ragtime Echo" from 1893!-- don't because I already investigated it.  It is a relabeled and updated piece that Jennings did not change the copyright year on.  I requested the original from the ABF library (for banjo/banjeaurine-- you can too by sending in the measly $10 a year to join) and Jennings changed a lot of the rhythms in the new version to rag it up.

At any rate, the cover includes a good woodcut of a Whyte Laydie #7 and the collection gives a nice overview of popular music in the late 19th century.

Enjoy...

https://archive.org/details/JenningsBanjoSchool1902

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So I finally sat down and gave this a full read through.  It is interesting in that the vast majority of the pieces are bass elevated.

I also noticed that many of these were played by Al Camp on his folkways album from the 60s (he used wire strings but it is still a decent recording.

I'm attaching a recording I did today of "Cottonfields" with Banjo and Banjeaurine-- no video as I am playing both parts.

All in all it is a good book.  I can see it as a "jamming" book as most pieces are duets and fairly easy to play.

THANKS MARC S!

I'll try again...

When I try to play the sound file I hear an explosive buzzing sound and then after 3 seconds (and sometimes 6 seconds or 1 second)  it stops and won't go further even though at first it appears to be 3 minutes and 58 seconds long. 

I don't know what I've done wrong.  Try it here...

Sounds from the Cottonfields

Yup, that works. Thanks. Good one.

Joel Hooks said:

I don't know what I've done wrong.  Try it here...

Sounds from the Cottonfields

Excellent work, Joel! The book looks really good online, glad to have it out there for folks to play. The genre really begs to have some well-written-but-easy tunes and this is a good example. The rhythms are a bit tricky to count but well worth the effort.

The first measure of the 2nd strain (B part) sounds much like one of the parts from Lansing's "Darky's Dream"...

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