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- Comment on: Topic 'Old Banjo Journals are a delight!'
- I've never had a T B J banjo but I had an overcoat like this in 1976, the style must have come round again.
- Added by Richard William Ineson at 12:12 on November 2, 2020
- Comment on: Topic 'the trio'
- is not printed with that already). First strain or part is "A" Second strain is "B" Often B is followed by a repeat of A, which I mark as [A] in brackets. Subsequent repeats of previous parts will be marked with brackets around the letter. I continue the lettering if there are more parts. The standard popular music form of instrumentals followed an A, A, B, B, A, C (or trio), A format. Sometimes there are more parts or repeats. The "trio" as stated usually (but not always) modulates/changes keys (there can be other key changes as well, a common one is a change to the relative minor in the B part which maintains the same key signature). This is pleasing to listeners and adds interest to the music. "Trio" is typically the third strain (but not always) and can have multiple strains. One example of this is Sousa type marches where there is a bridge in the trio called a "Dog Fight." Always watch your dynamics on the trio as it often changes on the repeat to provide shading and drama to the piece (always watch you dynamics anyway). The "fiddle tune" format or what I call "short pieces" are A, A, B, B, repeat ad nauseam. This is fun and great for dancing in the barn/contra dance format but gets dull for sitting audiences (and musicians to play). At some point popular music dropped the key change trio for the repeat till everyone playing gets tired of it. I think this comes from Hawaiian music and hillbilly acts (using fiddle tune format) but I don't know for sure. It follows the standard "song" format more than instrumental. Often hillbilly versions of popular instrumental pieces will ignore the trio and skip it. While I mark the parts I also look for things that are strange and make note of all the repeats and associated signs (or playing order). Then I do my first read through. I know this is not exactly what you were asking and Jody did a good job explaining, but perhaps this will help you understand the format of most popular music of the "classic banjo" era. Each piece of music is a sum of its parts with a story to tell. Breaking it down makes it easier to learn.…
- Added by Joel Hooks at 16:34 on January 4, 2020
- Comment on: Topic 'Van Eps' "Dixie Medley"'
- .pdf This certainly is what Fred Van Eps is playing in his Dixie Medley, but where did it come from? 02. Wikipedia has an informative entry for Dixie (song) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song) It mentions that: "Dixie" is structured into 32 measure groups of alternating verses and refrains, following an AABC pattern. As originally performed, a soloist or small group stepped forward and sang the verses, and the whole company answered at different times; the repeated line "look away" was probably one part sung in unison like this. As the song became widely popular, the audience likely joined the troupe in singing the chorus. Traditionally, another eight measures of unaccompanied fiddle playing followed, coming to a partial close in the middle; since 1936, this part has rarely been printed with the sheet music. ... "As with other blackface material, performances of "Dixie" were accompanied by dancing. The song is a walkaround, which originally began with a few minstrels acting out the lyrics, only to be joined by the rest of the company (a dozen or so individuals for the Bryants). According to a musician named Oscar Coon, Bryant's Minstrels performed a jig to "Dixie" called Beans of Albany. This is probably Albany Beef, the Scots-Irish dance that Emmett refers to in a book on fife instruction. Dancers probably performed between verses, and a single dancer used the fiddle solo at the end of the song to "strut, twirl his cane, or mustache, and perhaps slyly wink at a girl on the front row." ... 03. This same Wikipedia article in its external links section has "Sheet music for "Dixie's Land" from Historic American Sheet Music at Duke University" at (page 4) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/n/n08/n0807/n0807-4-72dpi.html This version of Dixie, composed by Dan. C. Emmett, arranged by W.L. Hobbs and published by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1860, has the C fiddle part which is identical to the C part in the Howard Instructor for the Banjo (except that this arrangement is in the key of C and its C part is only played once). It is also what Fred Van Eps plays in his Dixie Medley. 04. The Fiddler's Companion has an Albany Beef entry at http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/AI_ALI.htm The B part of Albany Beef is the same Dixie C part in the Howard Instructor for the Banjo, the same C fiddle part in the W.L. Hobbs arrangement of Dixie, as well as what Fred Van Eps plays in his Dixie Medley. "ALBANY BEEF. AKA and see "Buckley's Favorite/Fancy," “After the Sun Goes Down,” “Lord St. Clair’s Reel.” American, Quickstep March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard. AABB. The city of Albany, New York, was originally settled as Willemstadt by the Dutch and renamed Albany by the English when they gained control of the Hudson, in honor of James, Duke of York and Albany. The name Albany itself is a northern English variant of the ancient name Albion, referring to Britain. The name Albany Beef, however, referred to abundant and cheap Hudson River sturgeon flesh [fish?] that was marketed in the United States in the 19th century. Irish versions are in O’Neill as “After the Sun Goes Down” and in Roche as “Lord St. Clair’s Reel,” however, “Albany Beef” only shares one part of the tune with them. Bruce & Emmett’s Drummers’ and Fifers’ Guide, 1862; pg. 56. X:1 T:Albany Beef M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Quickstep March S:Bruce & Emmett’s Drummers’ & Fifers’ Guide (1862) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A/F/ | DD/F/ A/B/A/G/ | Ee/f/ e/d/B/c/ | d/e/d/A/ B/d/g/b/ | a/f/g/e/ f/d/A/F/ | DD/F/ A/B/A/G/ | Ee/f/ e/d/B/c/ | d/e/d/A/ B/d/g/b/ | a/f/g/e/ d :: (3A/B/c/ | df/d/ a/d/f/d/ | e/f/g/a/ b/g/e/c/ | df/d/ a/d/f/d/ | e/g/f/d/ c/A/B/c/ | df/d/ a/d/f/d/ | e/f/g/a/ b/g/e/c/ | d/e/d/A/ B/d/g/b/ | a/f/g/e/ d :| 05. The Fiddler's Companion has three Too Young Too Marry entries at http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/TOO_TOZ.htm TOO YOUNG TO MARRY [1]. AKA and see "Buffalo Nickel [1]," “Cat Ate the Handsaw,” "Chinky Pin," “Crooked Stovepipe [2],” "Darling Child," "Fourth of July," “Grey-Eyed Cat,” "Hair in the Butter," "I'm My Momma's Darling (Child)," “Lead Out,” “Liesel,” “Love Somebody [2],” "Midnight Serenade [1]," "My Love Is/She's But a Lassie Yet [1],” “Old Mose,” “Raymondville," "Richmond Blues," “Soapsuds Over the Fence [3],” "Sweet Sixteen," "Ten Nights in a Bar Room," "Yellow Eyed Cat." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; western North Carolina, southwestern Virginia. D Major. ADae (Tommy Jarrell) or Standard tuning. AABB. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 278. Kuntz, Private Collection. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; pg. 198. Welling (Welling’s Hartford Collection), 1976; pg. 11. County 713, Cockerham, Jarrell and Jenkins- "Down to the Cider Mill." Folkways FA 2336, Clark Kessinger- "Fiddler" (appears as "Chinky Pin"). County 733, Clark Kessinger- "The Legend of Clark Kessinger" (appears as "Chinky Pin"). County 201, The Old Virginia Fiddlers- "Rare Recordings" (appears as "Midnight Serenade"). Rounder 0197, Bob Carlin - "Banging & Sawing" (1985. Learned from Harold Hausenfluck). Voyager 316-S, Vivian Williams and Barbara Lamb- "Twin Sisters" (appears as "Fourth of July"). X:1 T:Too Young to Marry [1] M:2/4 L:1/8 N:ADae Tuning Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A (f/g/|a)b ae|f/dd/ [df](f/g/|a)b ag/a/|b/a/b/g/ ef/g/|ab ae|f/dd/ [df]e/f/|g/f/e/d/ c/A/B/c/|d/ff/ [df]:| |:(A/B/|d/)B/A/G/ F/E/D/F/|G/A/B/(c/ d)(A/B/|d/)B/A/G/ F/E/D|[EA]>[FA] [EA](A/B/| d/)B/A/G/ F/E/D/F/|G/A/B/(c/ d>)(A|A/)B/c/d/ e/g/f/e/|[df]>e [df]:| TOO YOUNG TO MARRY [2]. AKA and see "My Love is/She's But a Lassie Yet [1], "Miss Farquharson's Reel." Scottish, Reel. The tune was know in Scotland under the title "My Love She's But a Lassie Yet," and still earlier in Robert Bremner's 1757 "Scots Reels" as "Miss Farquharson's Reel." TOO YOUNG TO MARRY [3]. AKA and see "Trop Jeune Pour s' Marier." 06. The Fiddler's Companion also has two My Love Is/She's But A Lassie Yet entries at http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MY_MZ.htm MY LOVE IS/SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET [1]. AKA and see "Buffalo Nickel [1]," "Chinky Pin," "Chinquapin/Chinquipin," "Crumb Creek Posey," "The Cumberland Square Eight," "Darling Child," "The Duke of York," "Farmer Had a Dog," "Fourth of July," "Hair in the Butter," "I'm My Momma's Darling (Child)," "The King's Head" (floater-Pa.), "Lead Out," "Lindsay Munnell Tune" (Pa.), "Love Somebody(, Yes I Do!)," "Midnight Serenade [1]," "Miss Farquharson's Reel," "Old Kingdom," "Richmond Blues," “Soapsuds Over the Fence [3],” "Sweet Sixteen," "Ten Nights in a Bar Room," "Too Young to Marry [1]," “Tripping on the Mountain,” "The Virginia Reel [4]" (floater-Pa.), "The White Cockade" (floating title, Pa.), "Yellow Eyed Cat." AKA - “My Lover’s but a Lady Yet.” Scottish, Irish, English, American; Reel, Polka (Ireland) and Country Dance Tune. USA; New England, Southwestern Pa., New York. England, Northumberland. D Major (most versions): C Major (Huntington). Standard tuning. AB (Howe, Silberberg, Sweet): AABB (most versions). The title was fixed on the tune because of two songs composed to it, one by Robert Burns and the other by the "Ettrick Shepherd," James Hogg, although the tune seems to have first appeared in print in Bremner's Scots Reels" of 1757 as "Miss Farqharson's Reel." It appears in James Aird's collection (of Scottish tunes), but although Samuel Bayard (1981) for some reason said he could find neither the title nor the music therein-Sara Johnson, and others who have looked find it “plain as day” in Aird, 1782, vol. 2, page 1, No. 1. The writer of Gems of Scottish Song asserts that the original title of the tune was "Lady Bodinscoth's Reel." In modern times the reel is often played in a set to accompany the dance “Dashing White Sergeant.” *** Although of Scottish origin it soon became a popular tune south of the Tweed, as attested to the title's appearance in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800. Northumbrian musician William Vickers included it in his 1770 music manuscript under the title “My Lover’s Butt a Lady Yett.” "My Love She's But a Lassie Yet" is also the name of a Scottish country dance, though a somewhat unusual one (Flett & Flett, 1964). *** Imported to Ireland, the tune was converted to a polka and played under the titles “My Love is But a Lassie” and “Tripping on the Mountain.” The last title is the name it was famously recorded as in the 78 RPM era by flute player John McKenna and fiddler James Morrison. *** The melody also found currency across the ocean and Bayard deems it perhaps the most widespread instrumental folk tune in Pennsylvania tradition, and that it in fact seems mostly to have been known as an instrumental air among folk musicians in general. The tune was printed under the title "Richmond Blues" in George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels, volume II (Baltimore, 1839) and was still cited as commonly played for country dances in Orange County, New York, in the 1930's (Lettie Osborn, New York Folklore Quarterly). In the South, old-time musicians know the tune under the title “Sweet Sixteen” and "Too Young to Marry.” Jim Taylor (1995) says the tune in its various titles was well-known to musicians in both North and South during the American Civil War era. See also note for “Richmond Blues.” *** Source for notated version: Tony Mates [Silberberg]. Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, c. 1782; No. 1, pg. 1. American Veteran Fifer, 1927; No. 61, pg. 31. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 323A-V, pgs. 283-289. Bruce & Emmett (Drummers and Fifers Guide), 1880; pg. 24. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pg. 51. Gems of Scottish Song, pg. 160. Gow (Vocal Melodies of Scotland), 1822, 2nd ed. pg. 21. Graham, 1908; pg. 32. Howe (Diamond School for the Violin), 1981; pg. 60 (appears as a set of "Caledonian Quadrilles"). Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; pg. 123. Jarman, Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes; No. or pg. 20. Johnson (Scots Musical Museum), 1787-1803, vol. 3, No. 225, pg. 234. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book), vol. 1, 1951; No. 57, pg. 28. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; No. 10, pg. 22. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 60. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 186, pg. 241. Ostling, 1939; pg. 21. Riley (Flute Melodies), 1820; vol. 2, No. 22. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; pg. 104. Smith (Scottish Minstrel), 1820-24, vol. 5, pg. 106. Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1965/1981; pg. 56. Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; pg. 47. Trim (Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 20. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1840; pg. 65. Cló Iar Chonnachta CICD 165, John Wynne & John McEvoy - “Pride of the West” (2007). F&W Records 1, "F&W String Band." See also listings at: Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info X:1 T:My Love is But a Lassie Yet [1] M:C| L:1/8 K:D |:dc|d2D2F2A2|d2D2D2 dc|d2D2F2A2|e2E2E2 dc| d2D2F2A2|B2g2f2e2|dc BA Bc de|f2d2d2:| |:fg|a3f g3e|f2d2d2 fg|a3f g2a2|b2e2e2 fg|a2 fg g2 eg| f2 df e2A2|dcBA Bcde|f2d2d2:| X:2 T:My Lover’s Butt a Lady Yett M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:William Vickers’ music manuscript, pg. 22 (1770) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A/B/c/|dDFD dDD B/c/|dDFD BEE B/c/|dDFD dgfe|d/c/B A/B/c dDD:| |:f/g/|afge fdd f/g/|afge eEE (f/g/)|afge fdec|d/c/B/A/ Bc dDD:| MY LOVE IS BUT A LASSIE [2]. AKA- "Farewell to Whiskey [1]," "Love Somebody." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Missouri. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Barely recognizable as a variant of above. Also Irish versions (e.g. Mike Rafferty) under this title (see “Farewell to Whiskey [1]”). Source for notated version: Ben Smith (Dixon, Missouri) [Christeson]. R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2), 1984; pg. 53. 07. Well, it certainly seems that the second mystery tune of Fred Van Eps' Dixie Medley is Too Young To Marry / My Love Is But A Lassie Yet. It furthermore appears that the first mystery tune is actually a C fiddle part of Dixie which is also the B part of Albany Beef. Thanks to all.…
- Added by Howard C. Malcolm at 14:17 on September 7, 2009
- Comment on: Video 'Canadian's Parade by Joe Morley Classic Fingerstyle Banjo'
- er of them, so here is my terribly un-impressive attempt. Yet another March from Morley, and a cracker it is too... where did he get them? I found it a bit tricky to play at speed and then I remembered what I was once told by a person much wiser than I... NEVER TRY TO PLAY MUSIC WITH MORE BLACK ON THE PAGE THAN WHITE. :-) This one comes close, but is really not too bad once you ignore the fingering shown on the score and work out for yourself !!! I dedicate this to my Canadian friend Shawn McSweeny as he has been of amazing help on the website over the last couple of years. Thank you Shawn.…
- Added by thereallyniceman at 18:34 on December 18, 2014
- Comment on: Topic 'Rag Suggestions for Beginner?'
- bunch of different frets no matter what the key signature may be. Another thought: three flats is sometimes indicative of the key E flat major but sometimes it just means C minor and that is often easier on the banjo the C major. Keynotes Rag starts out in C minor and the first part is almost entirely played from chord positions so there is very little work for the left hand. But then it gets tricky in the next part! I agree with Joel that Kaloola is very nice and not too scary. And I agree with Marc about Calliope Rag being lovely music and not too hard to play. It's also easy to remember. It's a James Scott composition and there are several videos on this website of it being played. Don't let the 1 flat in the key signature scare you. "B flat" takes twice as long to say as "B natural" but it no harder to play the third string at the third fret than to play it at the fourth. And "B natural" takes even longer to say but it's not harder than B flat either.…
- Added by Jody Stecher at 0:22 on February 11, 2018
- Blog Post: memory muscle functiion
the brain needs feeding as well as the stomach . my mother told me so .shee would suggest in the morning ,honey in bowl porridge with blueberrys chopped srawberrys bring to boil eat .then after…
- Added by Alan Sims at 12:36 on June 21, 2012
- Comment on: Topic 'Nylon strings for tenor banjo?'
- y nylon string you've used for a b string on a five string banjo as your tenor A and any nylon string you've used as a third string G for your D course on the tenor banjo. I'd go on the heavy side first given how short the vibrating length of the tenor string will be.…
- Added by Jody Stecher at 16:37 on July 20, 2015
- Comment on: Topic 'A Notation tunes to C Notation...'
- o pumping along in the background. The A part and Trio have a bass voice laying down that backup but somehow Converse felt it wasn't needed in the B part. And...I've switched the mp3 to 'Grand Piano'. The 'banjo' synth in Musescore isn't terrible but it ain't great either.…
- Added by Trapdoor2 at 16:34 on June 23, 2018
- Topic: Woopty Doo
- -banjo-sheetmusic-to-the-front-quickstep-a-d-cammeyer-/301202308376?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123…
- Added by Jody Stecher at 19:22 on June 2, 2014
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