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Musescore tab tip?
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Scottish slow air/lament on banjo
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An Irish Hornpipe: The Plains Of Boyle
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"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 option to edit the strings data
select the fourth…"
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 lower than they really are and I'm not able to change the number. Is there a workaround?See More
"Ning or my computer lost my faithful reproduction of the odd punctuation of the original title. At least it didn't change the spelling of Niel to Neil. Niel is how Mr Gow spelled it. OK here it is again
"Niel Gow's…"
Scottish slow air/lament on banjo
You've all heard the banjo jokes. Like: what's the difference between a banjo and a chain saw? Answer: a chain saw has dynamic range. These jokes address an actual problem but the problem is not with banjos. It's with (some) banjo players. I find the banjo to be as expressive as the violin. What it lacks in sustain can be compensated for with expressive timing. Here is a banjo arrangement of a well-known and much-loved melody composed by the legendary 18th century violinist Niel Gow upon the…See More
"I played through the entire 2nd banjo part and it all makes sense including the C+ chord you mention (it may not be the best sound but it is not a musical error). But when I listen to the midi something sounds wrong. Mostly it's the two middle…"
"There may be some wrong chords in the second banjo part. I hear momentary clusters of half steps piled on top of each other that are possibly not intentional. "
An Irish Hornpipe: The Plains Of Boyle
Here is a banjo arrangement of a favorite Irish hornpipe, "The Plains of Boyle" transposed from D to C. It plays ok in D but the banjo sound seems better in C. My arrangement is influenced by piper Willy Clancy's glorious setting. Attached is staff notation, a banjo recording, and a midi to for the purpose of hearing the chords. I notated it in straight time but it is meant to be played with some swing as the midi and banjo recording will show. I played the tune twice, the first time…See More
"My setting wouldn't be there as it is still evolving so it has never been heard before . It has elements of different existing versions, of my imagination, and of 5-string banjo things.
The Planes of Boyle! Good one. One mishearing I…"
"Yes, I just picked a random setting from The Session...because none of the associated conversation mentioned your particular setting.
I found it amusing that there were several references to the title "Boyle Airport" (The Planes of Boyle).…"
"Right, this sounds wrong. But the version being treated is nothing to write home about. (Not your fault!... just a generic version from The Session I think). That's one reason I'm doing these banjo arrangements. I'm offering a few…"
"It worked! Thank you, once again. At a ratio of 60, whatever that means my version sounds pretty good."
"I don't usually use the "swing" feature...but here's how to do it:
Select the first measure of where you want swing to begin (like, um, measure 1?).
Open the "Tempo" palette and click on "Swing". This will…"
Swing playback on Musescore
Calling the Musescore experts who helped me recently! I'm preparing a banjo arrangement of an Irish hornpipe. I've written the score in straight time because dotted playback is just wrong. But I know there is a way to create swing time playback. I stumbled on it a few years ago. There was even a way to adjust the amount of swing. But I can't understand the directions in the online handbook. Can anyone help?The tune is the Plains of Boyle transposed from D to C in an arrangement influenced by…See More
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Banjo Benches at San Francisco Airport!
I was taking a flight out a new terminal at San Francisco the other day and was surprised and amused to see the shape of some comfortable new benches with a new shape. Off topic because they look like plectrum banjos? No indeed, these are Zither Banjo Benches! I'm afraid my mobile phone takes horrible quality pictures but at least the shape was captured. The wave of the future?
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Farland Metal banjo head on ebay
Posted on August 13, 2011 at 20:50 — 2 Comments
clear photos of the missing banjo
Note the copper bass string, the red binding around the pot and the inlay "The Cammeyer Vibrante Royal" These are distinctive.
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 22:16
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- At 4:06 on April 7, 2009,
Trapdoor2 said…
- Jody, regarding the banjo I'm playing in my videos: that's one of Bob Flesher's "Cotillion" (12") models; my main axe for about 6 yrs. Thanks for the kind remarks, I've gone from archtop Stelling "shrill" to "tubby" over the years (in more ways than one!). I have a fiberskyn head on it, Aquila Nylgut strings and one of those Cole 5-footed bridges. I have a small collection of banjos but the Flesher gets all the playing time these days.
- At 5:54pm on March 14, 2010, Joel Hooks gave Jody Stecher a gift…
- At 8:11 on August 19, 2010,
Liz McElwain said…
- Thanks, Jody. Hope to be able to meet you over the Didmarton weekend.
- At 17:08 on September 11, 2010,
Anthony Peabody said…
- I enjoyed meeting you at Backwell, and I am afraid that I assumed that you were a newcomer to Banjo, so please erase from your hard drive any superfluous and quite unnecessary advice. You don't need any encouragement either. I was the bass banjo at the end of the line, filling in the blanks, and wishing I could play better. So you see, you encorage me!
Anthony Peabody
- At 17:48 on December 22, 2010,
Eric STEFANELLI said…
Thanks Jody, to add me as a friend, i am deeply honored !
I would be to give you some piece of information about my banjos making, give me please your e-mail, mine is : eric.pat-luths@orange.fr .
About your music, many people in France like bluegrass & old timey music, and play it, there is many bands, many american banjo players come to France every years to teach, and have many pupils, there is summer country festivals...i was myself a pupil of Tony Trishka in 1978 and and Ben Eldrige in 1982/83, but we can speak about it by mail. Classic banjo is unknow or very few people know this kind of banjo music.
Eric
- At 14:09 on August 3, 2011,
Pam Tointon said…
Thank you Jody I enjoyed that. Nice to hear an original composition, but well beyond me yet as a beginner I'm afraid.
regards Pam
- At 12:51 on October 18, 2011,
Neil Angus Goodwin said…
- Thankyou for the info, that might explain why it is the only Cammeyer I have seen with the metal bands.
- At 23:51 on March 5, 2012,
allan ideson said…
thanks jody for your input.ime a guitarist .i have good instruments ...this banjo .has a lot of volume .also the neck and fingerboard are a work of art .after all these years the neck is straight .....no truss rod.when i master the beast ill put some tunes on ....thanks...allan
- At 21:34 on March 8, 2012,
skip sail said…
hi Jody,met you on your australian tour,we talked Fred Macdowell and Robert Petway and jammed a bit on some fingerpicked blues at Camperdown. Thanks for the welcome to the forum! Skip
- At 7:32am on May 14, 2012, thereallyniceman gave Jody Stecher a gift…
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