"With a title like Zulu Dance I sort of expected something different. This piece is not bad, and slightly better than the typical mid 90s basic tweedledee schottische, just not what I would have…"
Classic-Banjo
"Ok! Ian has uploaded "The Royal Trumpeters" to the Music Library here.
I had forgotten (or failed to listen up in class) that Ian doesn't do A notation in the Music Library.…"
Turkey In The Straw (A Ragtime Fantasie)...1904..Otto Bonnell
This a very interesting ragtime-ish arrangement of a well known favourite. Nothing is known about the composer. It's not too challenging and is well worth a listen and play. The piano score was…See More
"You need to change the tuning of the banjo.
Doing this from memory
right click the first measure & select staff property
towards the bottom of the box that pops up, you have the…"
Musescore tab tip?
Aargh! I'm trying to create a (full ) tab version of a Musescore staff notation. Musescore thinks the 4th string is tuned to D but it's really at C. So all the 4th string notes are shown two frets…See More
Dreamland Gavotte by Morley, other new (old) music on the way...
Digging thru a big box of printouts (where I found Morley's "Pastime Schottische"), I ran across 10 more pieces I couldn't find online or in my digital collection. I've scanned them and sent them to…See More
"Absolutely. The pile I dug this out of yielded several more "unlisted" (not Morely but not online or in the usual collections). They're all 8.5 X 11 copies, so I can scan them for…"
"Well, I believe there is value to making all of the banjo music (even the meh) available. One man's "meh" is another's "hey!". Well, probably not, but…"
