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At Sunset, Grimshaw...

Tim Spacek played this on my CE Special last Saturday night after the show and OMG, I could have closed my eyes and been sitting in front o…

Started by Trapdoor2 in Classic Banjo

11 Oct 25, 2024
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How to play rapidly repeated chords according to Grimshaw

Sorry for the double post, but I was playing some Farland and I found this interesting, he states " rapidly repeated chords should be playe…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

2 Oct 19, 2024
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A glide pinch

Did I invent a technique or is it a known technique? Basically the idea is you strum downward on the string by pinching and letting the fir…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

0 Oct 18, 2024

The Ebony Funeral (1894)..Carl Lexhoist

To my ears, there's more than hint of the composer being influenced by minstrel/stroke style banjo which is more apparent if you listen to…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Oct 18, 2024

What happened to all of the Emile Grimshaw scores?

I was looking for the sheet music to the banshee not because I can actually play it but because I just wanted to see if it was available an…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

6 Oct 16, 2024
Reply by Steve Harrison

How to play this

I was learning Skeleton dance by Norton Greenop and I've come across this section. I don't know how to play it. Is it basically a strum or…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

5 Oct 14, 2024
Reply by Austin

Happy Nights..1910..March & Two Step...Maurice Levi.

Levi was a bandleader and composer who wrote for musical theatre at the end of the 19th. and beginning of the 20th. centuries. Despite the…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Oct 13, 2024

What is the difference between Scruggs and Classic?

Besides fingerpicks, steel strings and the music they're used for. Someone on Reddit said that I was wrong when I said the right hand posit…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

9 Oct 11, 2024
Reply by Ethan Schwartz

Washington Pie.1907..(A Collection of Notes For a Buck Dance)..Theodore Morse.

This is a very good novelty composition with lots of variety. The piano score is written in Bb/Eb, my arrangement is in C/F as it fits the…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

11 Oct 9, 2024
Reply by Joel Hooks

Looking for Dance of the Spooks by Herbert Ellis TBB#401

I am always on the lookout for spooky/horror/supernatural themed banjo pieces. I was looking over the Turner Banjo Budget list and ran acro…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

9 Oct 8, 2024
Reply by Austin

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