Circus Parade TAB

[thereallyniceman]

Jean-Marie van de Laar has sent me a TAB he has made for Circus Parade by Joe  Morley.

I have now added this to the MUSIC LIBRARY. Circus Parade is a great banjo solo and there are some excellent Video performances (and my average one!) on the VIDEOS page.

Enjoy this piece. It is well worth the effort to learn it, so now, with the TAB, there is no excuse not to :-)

[Mike Moss]

That's some quality tab, with position markers and all!

[thereallyniceman]

I am particularly impressed by the cleverly placed thumb rasps!

...a stroke of genius  ;-)

[Mike Moss]

Thumb rasps in "Circus Parade" -- aren't those copyrighted? ;-)

[Jean-Marie van de Laar]

LOL. I was tinkering around with different options to play the piece. And I accidentally send Ian the pdf file with the thumb rasps. If you want a "correct version" tell me and I'll make and send you a new tab it just takes me a minute so feel free to ask for it. 

I also have a question regarding options. Where i placed the thumb rasps, the sheet music omits the 4th string D, so it gives you a 4 chord note on the top 3 strings and the fifth short string. How do you play it? Do you use your ring finger, or do you perform a pinch or something else?

 

[Mike Moss]

The version with the thumb rasps is better ;-)

I'd play the 4-note chord broken, as in thumb(3rd)middle(2nd)index(1st)thumb(5th). By moving your thumb from the 3rd to the 5th while the two other strings are being sounded you can obtain a very rapid and brilliant effect.

[thereallyniceman]

I sort of agree with Mike that a rapid broken chord would be very effective, but I would play it : RH Thumb for the 3rd string, Index finger for the 2nd string, middle finger for the  1st string then Thumb for the  5th string. This is a natural forward roll of the fingers for me.

BUT in preference I would play the D on the 4th string and use the Thumb rasp for the G7 chord (5strings)

[Jean-Marie van de Laar]

Thanks for the input. I never thought about playing it as a broken chord but that is indeed a good option. 

My preference at the moment is to use the thumb rasp but to mute the 4th string with the index finger of my right hand. 

[thereallyniceman]

Jean-Marie has also sent me TAB versions of  Spanish Fandango and Eli Green's Cakewalk that I have added to the MUSIC LIBRARY.  Thank you so much for those.

One point I would like to make is that Jean-Marie also sent a TAB for Banjo Oddity, but I have not added this to the MUSIC LIBRARY as a TAB version of this early Clifford Essex publication has been re-released by the Clifford Essex Music Company and I have agreed with them that I will not publish TAB if they have already done so.

If you need the TAB for Banjo Oddity, please buy a copy at http://www.cliffordessex.net.   CE do a lot to promote Classic Banjo, so please support them in return!

[Jean-Marie van de Laar]

No problems with that Ian. I already suspected some kind of agreement.