Hi y'all!

This is indeed a slippery piece, chock full of bass-string-slides. I've been working on a few of these pieces by Warren Dean (Moonlit Waters, BANJO-EE-TIS, etc.) and he appears to be having quite a bit of fun with this one.

This is another one where the dots are available from the ABF.

I did some alteration to the score in order to make it work out with Musescore. The initial slide is originally written as a grace note...simply does not sound good. I took a clue from the end of the B part and restructured the piece to include pick-up measures for the beginning of the slides in the A part and Trio. That makes them sound out like they should.

I hope y'all like it, it makes me LOL.

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This one has been played a few times at rallies.  I think Drew Frech did a nice job with it the rally before last.  Dean was a popular composer for ABF members.  Several late members took lessons from him.

Thanks Joel, I had no idea who Dean was. It appears that the ABF has about 14 of his pieces in the ABF library. I'm going to request a few more...so far his compositions appear to be good ones. Any Warren Dean recommendations?

I have done the two I mentioned. BANJO-EE-TIS has two spots where the harmony falls flat, I'm trying to figure that out before I post tab.

I also have Bradbury's "Monomoy" just about ready.

An expensive (in terms of bass strings) to play. It's very good, no idea why I have never played it.

Peter LaBau plays an excellent interpretation of Warren Dean's Tubaphone Rag on the Titanic String Band's CD 'Tip of the Iceberg'.  Although the sleeve notes state that Dean dedicated this piece to Vega, the manufacturers of the Tubaphone banjo, the concept fits neatly into his idea of banjo solos named after brass band instruments. 

Regards

Tony

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