woodland park waltz

[nick Kelly]

apart from Clarke Buehling playing this lovely tune on Youtube I can not find any mention of it anywhere and, I have searched, anybody know anything about this tune please ?

[Trapdoor2]

Poo. I forgot to mention the errata. I correct M7's rhythm (which left one with too few beats). Fortunately, the measure was (correctly) repeated again after the TRIO, so I just matched that.

M32 was missing its triplet markings.

Not too bad. I've seen much worse printer's errors.

Aaack. I missed the accent marks in M62-64. I'll fix for the next upload.

[nick Kelly]

this is quick work indeed Marc, well done, I would love to see a tab of this if you ever get time :-)

Trapdoor2 said:

Poo. I forgot to mention the errata. I correct M7's rhythm (which left one with too few beats). Fortunately, the measure was (correctly) repeated again after the TRIO, so I just matched that.

M32 was missing its triplet markings.

Not too bad. I've seen much worse printer's errors.

Aaack. I missed the accent marks in M62-64. I'll fix for the next upload.

[Joel Hooks]

He said he thinks La Bella 17s, that is what he uses.

nick stephens said:

A very sweet sounding banjo Clarke is playing in that clip, Joel do you know if he is using the ultra thin strings you and John speak so highly of ? as far as can be seen they look quite heavy to me, difficult to see though, great sounding banjo just the same.

Jody Stecher said:

Very early there was G notation, lower than A. What/where/when is "D notation?" 

Pär Engstrand said:

Thanks alot for this topic.

I find it difficult, timewise, to be fluent in all notations;C notation, A notation and D notation (are there more??).

Up until now, all the things I have looked at in A and D notation have been fairly simple, meaning the amount of notes and accidentals, so I have been able to sort of translate it in my head to C notation while playing. To be really fluent in one notation, just like languages, I think it is important to not translate from one notation to the other, if you know what I mean.

There is so so many interesting topics concerning the banjo and so little time! I wish I had started playing the banjo 25 years ago, or more...

The question after the piece is funny, I think:

"Is it an expensive thing to get into, playing banjo?"

"No...uhm.."

Well, I guess that depends :-)

[nick Kelly]

thanks Joel, lovely sounding banjo .

Joel Hooks said:

He said he thinks La Bella 17s, that is what he uses.

nick stephens said:

A very sweet sounding banjo Clarke is playing in that clip, Joel do you know if he is using the ultra thin strings you and John speak so highly of ? as far as can be seen they look quite heavy to me, difficult to see though, great sounding banjo just the same.

Jody Stecher said:

Very early there was G notation, lower than A. What/where/when is "D notation?" 

Pär Engstrand said:

Thanks alot for this topic.

I find it difficult, timewise, to be fluent in all notations;C notation, A notation and D notation (are there more??).

Up until now, all the things I have looked at in A and D notation have been fairly simple, meaning the amount of notes and accidentals, so I have been able to sort of translate it in my head to C notation while playing. To be really fluent in one notation, just like languages, I think it is important to not translate from one notation to the other, if you know what I mean.

There is so so many interesting topics concerning the banjo and so little time! I wish I had started playing the banjo 25 years ago, or more...

The question after the piece is funny, I think:

"Is it an expensive thing to get into, playing banjo?"

"No...uhm.."

Well, I guess that depends :-)

[Trapdoor2]

Here's the separate sheets for 1st and 2nd banjo...and an mp3 of the duo.

Nick, I have the tab almost done...but there are some minor changes to the original fingering that I want to incorporate...since I usually make the tab per my own fingering choices.

[nick Kelly]

Hey that is great Marc, I did not mean to "shove" you at all but, thank you for your help .

Trapdoor2 said:

Here's the separate sheets for 1st and 2nd banjo...and an mp3 of the duo.

Nick, I have the tab almost done...but there are some minor changes to the original fingering that I want to incorporate...since I usually make the tab per my own fingering choices.

[Trapdoor2]

No problem, Nick. Sometimes I need a kick rather than a shove!

I just spent 30min on the front porch playing this. Still not quite sure about some of those 8th-note (quaver) arpeggios. The video of Clarke playing doesn't really show those spots very clearly but it looks like I have them written out pretty closely to what he is doing. They're a bit awkward...but the reality is that they simply just take practice!

[Joel Hooks]

Thanks, Nick, for putting this one on my radar.  It is a nice waltz.  Most waltzes from the A notation era can be pretty anemic.  This one has some fun “runs”.

[nick Kelly]

I thought it had something of the old Austrian about it when I first found it, old Johann and, his son would have approved !

Joel Hooks said:

Thanks, Nick, for putting this one on my radar.  It is a nice waltz.  Most waltzes from the A notation era can be pretty anemic.  This one has some fun “runs”.

[Trapdoor2]

Ok, here's the tab. I followed all the position markings from the original but as there is nothing specific about some sections, I made those work for me. ;-)

Of course, I welcome commentary, recommendations, etc. I often cannot see the forest for the trees, so...

[nick Kelly]

Marc, this is great and will help me to struggle through this tune supplementing my own efforts, your help is very greatly appreciated.

Trapdoor2 said:

Ok, here's the tab. I followed all the position markings from the original but as there is nothing specific about some sections, I made those work for me. ;-)

Of course, I welcome commentary, recommendations, etc. I often cannot see the forest for the trees, so...