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"I teach you the overbanjo. Banjo is something that shall be overcome."

Nietzschebanjo? 2001 a Banjo Odyssey?

Anyhow, I remembered Joan Dickerson (a student of Bradbury's, I think) once mentionned she fell asleep trying to arrange "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" for Classic Banjo and gave it up as a futile effort... so I decided to give it a shot, and, just as I was thinking "gee, I wish I had a G bass string!" it dawned upon me.

The Überbanjo -- the cello banjo! So I wrote this arrangement (partly by ear, partly based on an orchestral score) in the hopes that Marc (Dalmasso) or Marc (S) -- our two resident C-B owners -- will be man enough to play this as a duet with me ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Trapdoor2 on October 9, 2012 at 2:23

Gaak! I would be afraid some monkey might shy a bone at my head.

That score has too much space in it. Some of those dots are mere circles...I don't think my strings will vibrate long enough for them!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Moss on October 9, 2012 at 14:05

The score has too much space in it? Well it would hardly be a space odyssey without space! ;-) Those round notes represent Hal 9000's glowing eye glaring at you through the sheet music!