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Playing Since: 1964
schwimbo has made 10 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
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Occupation: musician
Gender: Male
Age: 12
My Instruments:
1999 Prucha Professional with Fults Pro-5 tailpiece on Fults XYZ mount; stock walnut 2004 Prucha Professional; Recording King RK-R85 with Prucha bridge and Fults Pro-5 tailpiece on Fults XYZ mount, Gibson RB1 reissue from 1994 with Gibson Granada reissue ring and Prucha bridge; 1990 Gibson RB-250 with Kulesh Vintage 20 ring, Prucha bridge, and Fults prototype Pro-5 tailpiece on F-20 mouint.
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There too many to mention all of them, and if I leave some out (by forgetting), that wouldn't be fair to them.
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Created 3/11/2004
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by schwimbo, written by Joseph Kosma
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Play count: 454
Size: 7,873kb, uploaded 6/20/2012 10:19:49 PM
Genre: Jazz
I just improvised a banjo version of the jazz standard (without fingerpicks to get a mellower sound), and then added electric bass afterwards. It is kind of sloppy, and I mainly don't play jazz on the banjo, but thought I would put it out there anyway. I did record it without click track or any ProTools "fixing" (so maybe that could be a consideration against it being judged too harshly for the sloppyness factor). For some really great jazz banjo (in a traditional bop oriented style), listen to Tom Slavicek. Some of his tunes are posted at Andrew Conde's hangout page.
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by schwimbo
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Play count: 268
Size: 33kb, uploaded 11/9/2011 10:38:38 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
one measure from an Emerson and Waldron recording showing Bill Emerson's swung 8th feel (bouncy)
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by schwimbo, written by Ronnie Bowman / Don Rigsby
9 people like this
Play count: 1052
Size: 6,252kb, uploaded 2/12/2008 7:12:41 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
Here's a version of the Ronnie Bowman / Don Rigsby song from a CD (with some tweaking by me) by then -12 year old Molly Adkins (the daughter of hot flatpicker Dale Adkins who produced the session). Jeff Smith plays mandolin, Suzanne Pearce plays bass, Kristen Grainger and Molly Adkins supply the vocals, and I play banjo.
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by schwimbo
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Play count: 6134
Size: 3,809kb, uploaded 2/4/2007 4:56:38 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
from a recording done live in the studio here in Portland with Greg Clarke (mandolin), Morgan McNamara (guitar), Markie Sanders (bass), and myself on banjo
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by schwimbo
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Play count: 1749
Size: 1,963kb, uploaded 1/1/2007 6:25:14 AM
Genre: Traditional
another multi-tracked tune from an unfinished solo Christmas project (I need to do another 2 or 3 tunes to finish it and I got lazy).
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Play count: 984
Size: 3,410kb, uploaded 2/4/2007 5:18:42 AM
Genre: Traditional
Another song by the Smokey Mountain Band, from a recording done live in the studio here in Portland with Greg Clarke (mandolin), Morgan McNamara (guitar), Markie Sanders (bass), and myself on banjo. Tim Darby is added on this track playing dobro.
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by schwimbo
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Play count: 322
Size: 2,754kb, uploaded 1/11/2010 3:42:49 AM
Genre: Traditional
This tune has been sitting in my computer as part of an unfinished Christmas CD. Since I am so good at procrastinating when it comes to finishing some projects, I figured I would just put the tune out for the public, since who knows when the CD will actually be finished. I multi-tracked all the instruments, in case you were wondering who to blame for what you are listening to.
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Play count: 110
Size: 1,592kb, uploaded 9/2/2011 12:28:24 AM
Genre: Jazz
This isn't bluegrass, or banjo for that matter, but since people are discussing modes, etc., related to jazz and other music, I thought I would post a guitar solo I played for a soon to be releases CD by the Steve Hall Quintet (in which I play guitar). I am not as facile at playing jazz on the banjo, but can do it to some extent.
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by schwimbo
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Play count: 187
Size: 2,199kb, uploaded 2/28/2012 11:38:36 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
demo of one day old Recording King RK-R36 banjo on old song
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by schwimbo
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3 people like this
Play count: 178
Size: 2,189kb, uploaded 2/28/2012 11:12:23 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
demo of one day old Recording King RK-R36 banjo on an old song (with an interpretation of a Bill Emerson lick thrown in)
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by schwimbo
18 people like this
Play count: 1576
Size: 3,743kb, uploaded 1/25/2007 10:03:37 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
Another track from my Used TV Breakdown CD. I played all the parts on this cut, as on the other cuts, except where there was a wind instrument played (oboe, pennywhistle, recorder), in which case, those instruments were played by Miriam Rosenblum.
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by schwimbo
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Play count: 87
Size: 23kb, uploaded 11/9/2011 10:23:36 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
One measure of Eddie Adcock playing on a Country Gentlemen recording showing his straight 8th timing.
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by schwimbo, written by Herschel Sizemore
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4 people like this
Play count: 120
Size: 2,791kb, uploaded 2/28/2012 11:14:41 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
demo of one day old Recording King RK-R36 banjo on classic mandolin tune written by mandolin great Herschel Sizemore
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by schwimbo, written by Allen Shelton
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Play count: 200
Size: 636kb, uploaded 12/15/2010 4:01:20 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
Here is the same combination of me playing Allen Shelton's first break with the Jim and Jesse rhythm track, with a little of that rhythm track extended past the banjo solo so you can see it was mostly me playing the banjo part. This latest version has the banjo part delayed by about .02 seconds relative to the rhythm track. The reason I needed to do this is that when I played along with the track in Audacity, the new part added to the rhythm track is delayed slightly by the computer's processing time, and you need to manually shift the new track relative to the one being played along with. I didn't shift the track the correct amount to match what I had actually intended when playing (I over shifted it by a small amount). I compared the Jim and Jesse version with my newer time shifted version (delayed slightly) and it matches much better. When the snare in both tracks line up, the banjo parts from Allen's playing and my copy of his break also line up better. I think that it still sounds bouncy (at least as much as when it was inadvertently pushing the beat slightly in the first version I posted with the rhythm track).
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by schwimbo, written by Lynn Anderson
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Play count: 37
Size: 261kb, uploaded 2/29/2012 5:01:30 AM
Genre: Country
Here is Bobby Thompson's break to Lynn Anderson's recording of the song. I played it kind of soft (affecting the tone) because it was late at night and I didn't want to wake anybody.
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by schwimbo, written by Harry McAuliffe-Bobby Gregory
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4 people like this
Play count: 115
Size: 1,861kb, uploaded 2/28/2012 11:09:50 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
demo of one day old Recording King RK-R36 banjo on old song I first heard done by Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys
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by schwimbo
12 people like this
Play count: 906
Size: 9,257kb, uploaded 1/11/2010 2:06:47 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
I wrote and recorded this tune a couple of years ago and multi-tracked the other instruments. I think I might have been playing my RK-R85 rather than my Prucha to see how it sounded (maybe a little brighter than my Prucha).
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Play count: 2025
Size: 3,310kb, uploaded 1/1/2007 6:07:53 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
I multi-tracked all the parts on this tune which is from my CD of the same title.
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by schwimbo, written by Earl Scruggs-Lester Flatt-Everett Lilly
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Play count: 145
Size: 1,745kb, uploaded 2/28/2012 11:06:41 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
demo of one day old Recording King RK-R36 banjo on old song I first heard done by Flatt and Scruggs (but played in G in this case)
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