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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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
Reply by Austin

Moon Face..1907..(Characteristic march & Two Step)..Abe Olman

The oriental genre was popular with composers at the early part of the last century. This tune has a Japanese feel as imagined by Olman. It…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Oct 3

Which came first?

Did stroke style, also known as minstrel style, and classic style come before clawhammer and thumb lead? I'm curious because there are conf…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

26 Oct 1
Reply by Jody Stecher

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