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J-Walk - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:03:41
Let's get a feel for what people actually play...
Think back, and tell us what was the LAST tune you played on your banjo. And how long ago.
For me, it was "Lulu Loves Them Young," about 30 minutes ago. I really like like playing that one.
banjotef - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:08:11
I do a Gospel Medley of "I'll Fly Away", and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." Same chord progression.
Go down pickin'
tonehead - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:08:23
John Henry 5 mins ago.
Play it like you mean it.
David Ward - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:12:50
Cherokee Shuffle,1 hour ago
"Blue Country Bluegrass"
mralston - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:15:08
Little Maggie on fiddle, then fretless, then banjo-guitar to test out a new recording setup, finished up about 5 minutes ago.
Mark Ralston
"Now, people…. when it comes to the scientifical parts of music I know nothing about it, but I can play. Listen…. A man comes to this world naked and bare; He goes through life with troubles and care; He departs this life and goes we don’t know where; But he’ll be all right there if he lives all right here" ......... Uncle Dave Macon
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Ronnie - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:15:33
"Help!" I think. or maybe "While my...er..banjo gently weeps." Was picking with my daughter last night.
Sorry, I was playing 3 finger. Sorry to break in on the clawhammer topic.
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Edited by - Ronnie on 09/14/2009 18:17:42
steelhead - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:25:51
"Liza Jane" on my new Bowlin fretless......constantly for the last three days.
WilliamD - Posted - 09/14/2009: 18:51:33
Shady Grove, I absolutely love that song.
"Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world."-Bill Monroe
black flag - Posted - 09/14/2009: 19:03:24
Ducks on the Millpond last night.
We are here on earth to do good for others.
What the others are here for, I don't know.
--W.H. Auden
Pluckin Mutha - Posted - 09/14/2009: 19:10:27
Banjo Pickin Girl - G tuning, followed by Soldier's Joy - Double C
24 hours ago
switzforge - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:11:14
Cluck old hen less than 1 minute ago
Will play Banjo for food, will stop playing banjo for money.
John Switzer
Beulah, Colorado
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Fortune - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:27:53
The Falls of Richmond, 2 hours ago
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"If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher."
Turkish Proverb
Bisbonian - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:38:03
Sandy Boys, maybe four or five hours ago.
"When Banjos are Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Banjos."
ZEPP - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:39:16
In was teaching, so it was Goodnight Ladies, I fear.
Cheers,
ZEPP
manmademusic - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:43:52
"Old Bunch of Keys" just a few minutes ago.
EDIT: A tuning.
Gary
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Edited by - manmademusic on 09/14/2009 20:44:57
KE - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:44:00
Deck the Halls, an hour ago; I'm getting into the Christmas spirit early.
pinenut - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:49:47
Wayward Boy right now!
CLAWING AWAY RAY
stringbeaner - Posted - 09/14/2009: 20:55:17
John Henry - and Freight Train in CH.
Stringbeaner
stringbeaner - Posted - 09/14/2009: 21:00:56
Couple hours ago :D (OOPS)
Stringbeaner
frodo1mjg - Posted - 09/14/2009: 21:02:34
"When he commeth" and "I will arise" as a medely a couple of days ago. Been a bad banjo week
panthersquall - Posted - 09/14/2009: 21:03:24
Fortune, 5 minutes ago.
"F# is the new G."
beemfrost - Posted - 09/14/2009: 21:24:43
Sheebeg Agus Sheemore, about two hours ago. I think I'm starting to get it!
Alan Hill - Posted - 09/14/2009: 22:22:50
The ways of the world ,Sandy river belle & Boatman are my work in progress tunes and I play Jesse James to warm up or Waltzing Matilda other than that it depends what mood i am in
alan
RG - Posted - 09/14/2009: 22:41:50
"Dry and Dusty" on banjo and "Coming Through the Canebrake to Shoot the Buffalo" on fiddle...oops forgot...15 mins ago, done playing for the night, time to start finishing a banjo neck I'm building with the first coat of Tru-Oil...
A banjo picker walks into a restaurant after a jam and realizes that he forgot to lock the car doors with his banjo in the back...he runs out to the parking lot and back into the restaurant 1 minute later sobbing hysterically...the waitress asks "Did someone steal your banjo?"...to which the banjo picker replies..."It's even worse than that…now there are 2 banjos in the back seat!"...
Edited by - RG on 09/14/2009 22:46:20
erstokke - Posted - 09/15/2009: 00:08:25
Inspired by another discussion, I have been playing Martha Scanlan’s (Reeltime Travelers, Roy Andrade on banjo) "Little Bird of Heaven" continously the last two days.
My banjo is pre-war. Pre the next war
Jan Erik from Norway
fiddler57 - Posted - 09/15/2009: 01:06:16
Last Chance, 8 hours ago, I'm at work!
R.D. Lunceford - Posted - 09/15/2009: 01:43:18
"Polly Put the Kettle On"
so my daughter could do one of her
Irish treble reels, the day before yesterday.
R.D. Lunceford- "Missourian in Exile"
Model 1865 Bowlin Fretless Banjo
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"Drink from the Musselfork once, and you'll
always come back." -Dr. Bondurant Hughes, 1917
Edited by - R.D. Lunceford on 09/15/2009 01:44:24
youdog - Posted - 09/15/2009: 03:07:27
Salt Creek ...kind of... last night
youdog
Banjowik - Posted - 09/15/2009: 03:11:45
Just nailed the TOTW what a nice tune "Big Eyed Rabbit"
Scanbran - Posted - 09/15/2009: 03:12:01
Wild Horse, sort of. I'm still learning it, and the 5th string fretting section still ties me up in knots.
WGE - Posted - 09/15/2009: 03:16:18
"June Apple" yesterday afternoon.
RatLer - Posted - 09/15/2009: 04:19:38
Probably a little off the wall, but three days ago I was playin' Flatt & Scruggs' "Take Another Ride With Clyde". (clawhammer of course )
RatLer
Jami108 - Posted - 09/15/2009: 04:40:58
"Sourwood Mountain" yesterday evening.
Jami
"When you want genuine music—music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey…ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose—when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!" - Mark Twain
riverstein - Posted - 09/15/2009: 06:06:49
"Cold Rain And Snow", sawmill, early this morning.
clawhammerjazz - Posted - 09/15/2009: 06:26:45
Three tunes in an early morning practice sequence: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime, I'd Like to Get You on a Slow Boat to China, Midnight in Moscow. --Cjazz
trapdoor2 - Posted - 09/15/2009: 06:52:59
"Ham Beats All Meat"
but it was about 3 days ago. 
I've been playing classic for the past 3 days..."Marche de Concert", by Olly Oakley. 
===Marc
"If banjos needed tone rings, S.S. Stewart would have made them that way."
Viper - Posted - 09/15/2009: 07:32:37
Tomorrow Is Another Day, about 13 hours ago
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Right way or wrong way, I just want to play the banjo SOME way.
ScottK - Posted - 09/15/2009: 08:08:55
"Eagle Island Blues", about 12 hours ago. It's a waltz my fiddle buddy Joe Moore was teaching me as we were practicing together for an upcoming square dance.
Scott
RWJones1970 - Posted - 09/15/2009: 08:45:11
*** I woke up this morning, after a long previous day practicing how to defend a nuclear plant against terrorism, to an absolutely stunning morning. Blue sky, puffy white clouds, sun peeking through the trees and temperatures that were cool and comfortable. At the moment I am healthy, have a beautiful little family, and a million other blessings to be thankful for even in our world of many sorrows. Such inspiring moments brought me to grab my banjo and sing a few gospel tunes to the Lord, some Garcia&Grisman stuff, and the LAST SONG I played to top it all off was Old Bill Cheatham. I just love how that tune just rings out with a spirit of pure joy !!!
"Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD and HE will have compassion on him. For HE will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are higher than your thoughts and my ways are higher than your ways, Declares The LORD." (Isaiah 55:7-9)
Edited by - RWJones1970 on 09/15/2009 08:46:58
jojo25 - Posted - 09/15/2009: 10:27:23
All go hungry hash where I Live
last night
Don't forget to play all of the quasihemidemisemiquavers!!
Drop thumbs, not bombs
Joe
georgiagoodie - Posted - 09/15/2009: 12:14:15
"Old Joe Clark"
JB 1865
Last night
......after a 3-hour session of reading/playing thru "With my Banjo on my Knee", a collection of Stephen Foster tunes arranged for Minstrel Banjo.
......while watching MNF........Unbelievable last 77 seconds.........
georgiagoodie
"Frets? We don't need no stinking frets!!"
harvey - Posted - 09/15/2009: 13:12:55
"Kitchen Girl", about an hour ago. Been learning Mike Iverson's arrangement.
Stoneface - Posted - 09/15/2009: 14:16:20
"Jack Of Diamonds", the last 2 hours
"This is music from hardscrabble people who didn't put a lot of sugar in their coffee, their lives, or their music." Oldwoodchuck
gkuchan - Posted - 09/15/2009: 14:51:34
Chinesse Breakdown 15 min ago
"If anyone doubts my tenacity, I can only say that I pity his lack of faith."
-Baron Munchausen
maryzcox - Posted - 09/15/2009: 14:54:56
This morning, I grabbed up my new banjo and played a bunch of open C tunes sitting in bed in my pjs.
I think I played Snowdrop, Turkey in the Straw, Snake Charmers Daughter and Old Susana several times each and then I had to go and wash my face and get dressed.
I actually played a handful of double C and Cminor tunes too--but the open C tunes were the last played and the banjo went back in the case still in open C.
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