JOE MORLEY’S “GEORGIA MEDLEY" LESSONS NOW ONLINE!

[thereallyniceman]

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[marc dalmasso]

thanks so much , Ian ; What kind of banjeaurine do you play in these vidéos ?

[thereallyniceman]

No Marc, I didn't have a Banjeaurine. I took a tip from you and did what you did to your Zither banjo.  I sawed the neck of my CE Special in half and glued it back on so that it would fit in the video frame.

What does bother me, after watching the lessons again, is the shirt I am wearing. Do you think it makes my stomach look fat?

[marc dalmasso]

For sure , i fixed my zyther-banjo with an unusual way ; for the time , éric didn ' t had it in his hands but the  neck is perfectly straight and the zyther very playable ; and what i love on it , is the one piece walnut ' reso  ..

[Pam Tointon]

Thank you Ian your hard work is very much appreciated.

 

regards Pam

[thereallyniceman]

Thank you Pam and Marc for the kind words.

Oh yes Pam, it was hard work and very time consuming with all the filming, cutting, editing and general messing about!  I hope that, at least, some new and more experienced players will gain from all the Lessons and Tutorials that I have put together.

 

Ian

[Mike Moss]

A momentous achievement. This is probably the best set of free lessons, bar none, that I've ever seen for any instrument on the internet. Hopefully this will draw many newcomers to this great style known as Classic Banjo. May it ever flourish!

[marc dalmasso]

Hard work but the screen with 

  you & the score & tab = fantastic

[Sylvia]

Thank you Ian for your hard work, it was obviously a marathon task. Well done.

[Neil Angus Goodwin]

Hello I found your lessons by chance on youtube which has prompted me to join this group (thankyou) I have been trying to practice part one of Georgia medley (thanks for the clear tutorial) it sounds so easy whilst watching and listening to your encouraging video, I find that coming from a background of clawhammer
playing
 where the syncopation is inherent in the technique, that getting the rhythm and especially the syncopation right with this style especially difficult as spaces are not necessarily dictated by which finger is being used eg the second bar after the first two notes the next (missing) note is purely down to delaying the thumb stroke which could easily come forward and fill in in the wrong place, I was wondering if you have any tips for timing or is it just down to practice practice and then practice
some more? Re. your shirt, personally I find in my case that it's my fat stomach that makes my stomach look fat.

[Mike Moss]

Hi Neil,

 

it takes some adjusting to switch from the mechanics of clawhammer to fingerstyle, as both approaches are indeed quite different. Ultimately, though, it's just a question of getting used to it -- many people beginning to learn clawhammer from a fingerstyle background often have trouble learning even the basic frailing strum, but it's only a matter of perseverance. If you hang in there you'll develop the hand-eye coordination necessary for your three fingers to obey blindly to what your eyes are reading -- it's a all about "thinking" fingerstyle. The exercises in the Grimshaw tutors are great for this, and they're very tuneful. Sometimes when I've got a banjo in my hands but I'm not really playing anything, my fingers just go through the motions of one of the "How to Excel on the Banjo" studies almost spontaneously... great little studies.

[Neil Angus Goodwin]

Thanks Mike,

I have a copy of that somewhere I will dig it out

Mike Moss said:

Hi Neil,

 

it takes some adjusting to switch from the mechanics of clawhammer to fingerstyle, as both approaches are indeed quite different. Ultimately, though, it's just a question of getting used to it -- many people beginning to learn clawhammer from a fingerstyle background often have trouble learning even the basic frailing strum, but it's only a matter of perseverance. If you hang in there you'll develop the hand-eye coordination necessary for your three fingers to obey blindly to what your eyes are reading -- it's a all about "thinking" fingerstyle. The exercises in the Grimshaw tutors are great for this, and they're very tuneful. Sometimes when I've got a banjo in my hands but I'm not really playing anything, my fingers just go through the motions of one of the "How to Excel on the Banjo" studies almost spontaneously... great little studies.

[thereallyniceman]

Hi Neil,

I am glad that you found the lessons and that you want to learn Classic Style. Also thanks Mike for the suggestions.

The Georgia Medley is really a "follow on" after attempting previous lessons and working through the downloadable Tutor books and practice sheets which are found on Fingering Exercises and Chord shapes tutorial videos etc.  As Mike says, getting used to using the fingers across the strings, not necessarily as just rolls, is all part of learning classic style.

Many (most) CB style players prefer to listen to a solo being played, or even a midi or MP3 file, before they try to play it so that they can hear the rhythm and how the music goes! You can listen to how I play Georgia Medley to hear how it "should" sound  and then work through, very slowly,  following the fingering I show and watching the Tablature and Notation. This should help to develop the rhythms and fingering patterns and also help you to learn to read notation (I guess that you don't at the moment?).

 

The New "The Banjo and How to Play it" tutor from www.cliffordessex.net has exercises in both notation and tablature and is worth getting.

Good luck...  We are always here to help if you get stuck!

 

As you say practice, practice..........  Also, fat stomach?? It can't be that. I still blame the shirt  :-)

 

Regarding your Cammeyer Zither banjo. David Wade is our Zither expert here but he is involved with the Midlands Banjo Festival this weekend, but I am sure that he will comment when he gets chance.

 

Ian

Neil Angus Goodwin said:

Hello I found your lessons by chance on youtube which has prompted me to join this group (thankyou) I have been trying to practice part one of Georgia medley (thanks for the clear tutorial) it sounds so easy whilst watching and listening to your encouraging video, I find that coming from a background of clawhammer
playing
 where the syncopation is inherent in the technique, that getting the rhythm and especially the syncopation right with this style especially difficult as spaces are not necessarily dictated by which finger is being used eg the second bar after the first two notes the next (missing) note is purely down to delaying the thumb stroke which could easily come forward and fill in in the wrong place, I was wondering if you have any tips for timing or is it just down to practice practice and then practice
some more? Re. your shirt, personally I find in my case that it's my fat stomach that makes my stomach look fat.