Shaeffer's Jig

[carrie horgan]

This is something I'm working on at the moment - it's a bit of a finger-tangler for me but I'm hoping in time I can play it more cleanly.

I haven't made a video as I've recently moved house and am surrounded by boxes. It's not a pretty sight!  https://soundcloud.com/banjopickingal-1/shaeffers-jig

[thereallyniceman]

... or  "Joe Morley's Cakewalk" is used too.

I dislike re-writing history, but I guess that as the N word upsets so many folk it is understandable.

[Shawn McSweeny]

Re : "Banjo Town"/ "Banjotown" is what the ABF has been using.

   "Morleytown" is also used.

[0m9jhlfq2p15o]

Ermm, I'm sorry to be so dense, but I meant to ask earlier, what tuning are we talking about for this, Standard C?....

[Jody Stecher]

Also sorry to be  dense but what *tune* are we talking about?  For Shaeffer's Jig, the banjo is tuned gDGBD.  "Somethingtown" can be played with the bass at C (standard gCGBD) or at D (as in Shaeffer's Jig) because the lowest note is D. But the fingering indications for the fourth string in the score suggest that standard C is the intended tuning.

Tom Campbell said:

Ermm, I'm sorry to be so dense, but I meant to ask earlier, what tuning are we talking about for this, Standard C?....

[0m9jhlfq2p15o]

Jody Stecher said:

Also sorry to be  dense but what *tune* are we talking about?  For Shaeffer's Jig, the banjo is tuned gDGBD.  "Somethingtown" can be played with the bass at C (standard gCGBD) or at D (as in Shaeffer's Jig) because the note is D. But the fingering indications for the fourth string in the score suggest that standard C is the intended tuning.

Tom Campbell said:

Ermm, I'm sorry to be so dense, but I meant to ask earlier, what tuning are we talking about for this, Standard C?....

Thank you for your help Jody.