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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

Bridges

I just tried some new configurations of bridges. My Farland now has a Deering bridge. My Clifford Essex currently has a Bridge that was cus…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

1 Oct 8, 2024
Reply by Steve Harrison

A confession

I don't tend to like the way tab replaced sheet music. It gets on my nerves. I'm slowly starting to accept that this is the case, but it st…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

13 Oct 6, 2024
Reply by Austin

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