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Playing Since: 1971
Experience Level: Purty Good
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Gender: Male
Age: 60
My Instruments:
Hohner HTB travel banjo
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Bluegrass: Enjoyed Bill Monroe and the BG Boys, the BG Cardinals, and Country Gazette live, and Flatt and Scruggs and Stanley Brothers albums- and of course, I liked Foggy Mountain Breakdown- that helped motivate me to start banjo, cause it sounded so cool.
Oldtimers:
Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Hobart Smith, Clarence Ashley, Wade Ward.
Newtimers:
Paul Brown.
Sundry influences on my banjo playing and singing with banjo:
Burl Ives, Joan Baez, Elizabeth Cotten, John Hurt, Mike Seeger,
Pete Seeger, Chicago Blues, Blind Willie Johnson, Jimmy Reed,
Otis Redding, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Georgia Sea Island Singers.
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Created 8/8/2006
Last Visit 5/23/2013
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @10:41:56 PM
The problem was that the thumb pick I bought to start Scruggs picking again was CLEAR. When you're as disorganized as I am, they have to have some kind of color to them. Clear blends in with EVERYTHING! So I didn't practice Scruggs for a while.
I had made a bridge out of a section from some beechwood salad tongs I found for cheap last year. A few days ago, I decided to take a bit off of the end of the treble end of the bridge and a bit off between the 5th string and the 4th string, and it really helped. (WARNING- this is a unique home-made bridge- it probably won't help YOURS!)
Anyway, the banjo is louder now, so I can play with less effort to get the same volume, and then dig in for accents- I find it very inspiring when an instrument allows me to do that, and so I've been playing way more clawhammer than normal. It's also clearer, yet still mellow sounding- it really sounds like a more expensive banjo than it is. Part of the inspiration is that during the Christmas season, I didn't use the banjo for gigs, since I don't really know any Christmas songs on the banjo!
Last time I was in a music store, I decided I needed a different thumb pick, and I decided on a white National- easier to find, and more comfortable too!
I tried Scruggs picking again with it last night. It really is fun, even if the only tune I can do right now is Cripple Creek! When I took off the picks and tried to clawhammer, it felt SO strange.
I'm going to either have to find my old Dunlop finger picks, or buy some new ones- I've been using Ernie Ball Picky Picks I bought to reverse for clawhammer. But I need a wider pick.
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