Benford discusses this major/minor tuning in BNL, May 1977. before you can post comments. Music from the Cumberland Plateau, vol 1", "Bluegrass Instrumentals by the Osborne Brothers", "New Lost City Ramblers: There Ain't No Way Out".

Weekly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, banjo news and more. ELDERLY INSTRUMENTS Thanks to Banjo-List member Carroll Smith, I've recently seen a copy of a fascinating little treatise, "Old Time Banjo Playing in Knott County, Kentucky", by George R. Gibson (now living in Florida). But here's a bit from 1948 not in the 1962 edition: "Remember, you have to change all your chords now, to compensate for the change [from open-G]. Minglewood Blues...Doc and Merle Watson.wmv, Two Great Country Music Stars "Having Fun" At Home, The Avett Brothers- Country Blues (Doc Boggs Cover), Doc Watson ~ Sitting on Top of the World ~ Bristol 9-20-08, Doc Watson - Country Blues (Dock Boggs Cover), Clawhammer Banjo: Tune (and Tab) of the Week - "Cindy", Doc Watson performs "Deep River Blues" in the DVD "Doc's Guitar: Fingerpicking & Flatpicking", Avett Brothers "Country Blues" The Louisville Palace, Louisville, KY 10.16.14, The Avett Brothers - Country Blues (Doc Watson cover) - The National - 3/10/17, Show the world what you are playing with ChordU. There are some tabs mentioned, but usually from the pages of The Banjo Newsletter (BNL) rather than from available banjo-tutors and tab-books (which are pretty thoroughly covered in the Clawhammer Tune Index).

Note: Hypertext links for recordings and tablature referenced in this file will take you to Anita's supporting discography or her bibliography, respectively; the hypertext links for a tuning per se will take you to that tuning within this document. He says he never found time to revise it yet again, but that if he did, he'd start with the open-G, rather than the (standard) C-tuning.

Which was, and is, sterling advice! And probably not in the best order. There's an enormous variety of "reasons" - musical necessities or conveniences, traditional contexts, personal choices or chances - bearing on any banjo-tuning or (just as important, when it comes to "atmosphere") pitch. I've a note that Fred Cockerham may have used this tuning, but no reference. It merely unpacks some of the bare bones. Eric Weissberg, No Title Yet Blues ("New Dimensions in Banjo & Bluegrass"), tuning courtesy of Donald Zepp. Having mentioned Art Rosenbaum, who has made such important contributions to our understanding of old-time banjo styles and tunings, I feel I can't omit a few words, at least, from Pete Seeger, without whom, and whose ground-breaking manual, many of us might never have discovered the fabulous five-string. Pick through them as you will! Old-time banjo isn’t just clawhammer style. The appended file doesn't get into the reasons. Folk musicians do this, however, in order to play tunes that would be impossible otherwise...I learned ["East Virginia'] originally from a Library of Congress Record, though by now have gradually changed it a good deal...Treat it freely, and don't copy me note for note." f#CF#AD D variant Mac Benford, Maggie Walker Blues, in E ("Highwoods String Band: No. It was never intended as a piece of systematic research. the 2-finger I-I-T pattern). 'An interesting, in depth discussion on our music ' 2 min, '“Hog Killing Time” home made mandolin and banjo' 8 min, '12” Custom Walnut Pisgah Rambler Dobson A Scale Open Back Banjo EXCELLENT' 1 hr, 'Farland Artist No. And of course there are plenty more banjo-tunings out there, either unheard of by me, or still waiting to be plucked from new "atmospheres". His own sterling piece of advice is that you should play in whatever style feels most comfortable for you; and that if you do learn a down-picking style, you should *also* learn a 2-finger style. For example, guitarists such as Trey Azagthoth of Morbid Angel fame has utilized this on seven string guitars. 2 Original 5 String' 2 hrs. Hundreds of quality new and used banjos available. Quantity doesn't interest me nearly as much as those different Atmospheres. Click to browse current inventory! For the sake of visual consistency and "searchability", I've used only a sharp (#) symbol in my headings for the different tunings. You must sign into your myHangout account On a six string guitar, the tuning is modified to B,E,A,D,F#,Bb tuning takes B Standard on either a six or seven string guitar down a semitone (or half step).

Hey! You can reach me direct at akermode@dircon.co.uk. Genre: Old Time  Style: Unknown/None Chosen  Difficulty: IntermediatePosted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/1/2019 Just some "work-in-progress" from a musically-untrained enthusiast. George began on banjo in the late 1940s, learning by listening to and observing his father and other Knott County neighbors who played in (very various) old-time styles and traditional tunings. For those who started playing banjo (or are even now starting to play) with the help of earlier editions of this manual, I'll add a few comments Pete made in 1962. George lovingly describes these, paying attention, as well, to questions of pitch. As for "keys", I'm sure I've gone wrong here and there, if not (I hope) everywhere. Banjo Lovers Online We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Paul Schoenwetter (Banjo-List member) actually used (!) the "Submit a Tuning" form to send me a quotation from Pete Seeger's 1948 mimeographed 1st edition of "How to Play the 5-String Banjo". In my own (1962) 3rd-edition-revised, under the heading Harmony Lesson: "Mountain Minor" Tuning, Pete uses as an example of this tuning a version of "East Virginia" based on the playing of Walter Williams. Don't try to count the number of tunings listed here. The tuning result is (from low to high) Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb. Today, most old-time musicians prefer to use their bare fingers when fingerpicking rather than using the metal fingerpicks and plastic thumbpick that bluegrass players […] Thanks! 3 Special"). It also includes a wide variety of fingerpicking techniques that were played by old-time musicians before Earl Scruggs developed his bluegrass style in the mid-1940s. If you continue, we will assume that you agree to our privacy policy which includes details of cookie usage. For the first chapter I think I'd show the pattern I learned from old Bascom Lunsford..." (i.e. Take your playing to the next level with the help of a local or online banjo teacher. That's why, e.g., gDGDE and fCFCD each get their own slot. He also says he'd include a picture of one of the great West African musicians singing and playing the Kora! Just to confuse things, I've thrown in a few examples from the bluegrass brothers/sisters. Though I've somewhat revised my original file to make it shareable on the Banjo-L Web page (thanks to Donald Zepp's efforts on behalf of all who would like to share), it's still personal and highly UNauthoritative. All Rights Reserved. The "examples" given are very selective, on the whole arbitrary, and based chiefly on recordings I actually have. dbz, "The Piney Creek Weasels: Squirrel Heads & Gravy", "And the Hillsides Are All Covered in Cakes", "Jody Stecher & Friends: Snake Baked a Hoecake", "The Music of Roscoe Holcomb & Wade Ward", "And the Hillsides Are All Covered with Cakes", 'New Lost City Ramblers: There Ain't No Way Out', "Piney Creek Weasels: Squirrel Heads & Gravy", "Kimble Family Vol 1: Carroll County Pioneers", "The Kimble Family Vol 1: Carroll County Pioneers", "Ballads & Banjo Music From The Tennessee Cumberland Plateau", "The Volo Bogtrotters: Backside of Buncombe", "Trad. There are some cross-references (clearly indicated, I hope) that will throw you off. I believe this has not yet been published anywhere. Finally, I hope that those who do visit this file will contribute to future additions and revisions. Click to browse current inventory! We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Download: TABLEDIT | MP3: [Play] [Download] | PDF | MP3: [Play] [Download] | PDF | MP3: [Play] [Download] | MIDI [Play] [Download] | MP3: [Play] [Download]Notes: includes Doc's vocal. I've now incorporated in my list a number of the examples he gives, as well as adding one tuning (f#DABD, an alternative "Little Birdie" tuning) not there before. And: "What I call here 'the Basic Strum' I think I'd call 'a simple strum' and teach it not at the very beginning, but somewhere later on. When it comes to absolute pitch, I've here and there noted how a given tune comes out on recordings I've got; but on the whole I've given relative pitches. If you continue, we will assume that you agree to, 'An interesting, in depth discussion on our music ', '“Hog Killing Time” home made mandolin and banjo', '12” Custom Walnut Pisgah Rambler Dobson A Scale Open Back Banjo EXCELLENT'.



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