"Yikes, that sours me on the project. Horrible words to those songs."
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Jody Stecher
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What are people practicing?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ethan Schwartz Sep 21.
About the Alan Middleton instruction book
Started Sep 14
Testing posting an image
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Jun 19.
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"Having entered the recording into The Amazing Slowdowner I can now see that the transcription is not entirely representative of what is on the recording (it never is with Ossman) but it's a very good start to getting a handle on this banjo…"
"And the youtube recording is closer to A 440 D minor therefore a bit slower than the recording here, which is more or less a half step higher and very fast,"
"The 1898 Ossman recording is, to my mind, of some astonishing banjo playing. There's a cylinder playback on Youtube that is in better sonic condition than the one in the Original Recordings here on this…"
"How is it possible?
Short answer: step by step.
Long answer:
First by reading it through a few times without banjo in hand and getting the sense of the phrases. There is a shape and pattern that makes sense. Then if one has not already…"
Bristol Hornpipe on Harry Spratt banjo
"The video will not play. A message commanding one to "sign in" appears instead. I'm already signed in to both Youtube and this forum so I have no idea what this means, but it's not banjo music."
"Another good Morley tune is "Florida Cracker". I think there might be a couple of typos in score but maybe not. It's a unique memorable banjo solo of medium difficulty."
"Life In Louisiana (Grimshaw)
Valse de Concert (Eno)
A Banjo Revel (Morley)
Kansas Jig (Ellis)
Mississippi Bubble (Haynes)"
Gordon Dando's Classic Banjo
"On page 14 of the Chris Sands book on Tarrant Bailey JR is a section describing the mishap. TBJ's fingertip was bruised from playing hard enough to be heard over a noisy band who were overpowering the banjo rather than accompanying. The…"
Gordon Dando's Classic Banjo
"I noticed that the older banjo players did not have a fixed position for the right hand but rather moved it freely between the bridge and the area where the pot meets the neck according to the desired sound and feel. The young Tarrant Bailey…"
"The metronome does not lie. That's the good part. If we are speeding up or slowing down we will not be in synch with the click of the metronome. It makes aware of our deficiencies in rhythmic steadiness. It's a good tool to help us…"
"What Joel said. All points, all well said. Especially the last sentence: "Build the foundation". It applies to all instruments, all kinds of music, all arts, all sciences, all endeavors. With no foundation the house collapses. …"
"Why not experiment?
Because then you might not ever be able to play in time. First things first. I can't prove it but I'm pretty sure that Greenop did not have in mind skeletons doing "Modern Interpretive Dance".…"
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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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ContinuePosted on November 17, 2011 at 4:06 — 5 Comments
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
Comment Wall (20 comments)
- 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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