Blog

Music

Photos

Videos

View Yopparai's Homepage

Friends

Reviews


View Yopparai's Homepage

Read Yopparai's Bio

Contact Yopparai

You must sign into your myHangout account in order to contact Yopparai.
Playing Since: 1978

Experience Level: Purty Good

Interests:
[Jamming]

Gender: Male

Age: 48

My Instruments:


Yoppjo V1.0

Yoppjo V2.0

Yoppjo V2.01

Chillable Red

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Tom Waits, Various Irish, Russian, Japanese, and Porteguese punk, Mel Torme... hmmm

Classified Rating:
Rate this Member

Profile Info:
Visible to: Public
Created 3/3/2006
Last Visit 2/24/2012


MyFeed

Music Archive  |  Playlists


Yopparai's Music  |  Music Yopparai Likes

BG: Blackberry Blossom

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
5 people like this

Play count: 2545
Size: 1,732kb, uploaded 10/26/2006 12:22:30 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Learned this from one of the tab books that came with Alan Munde's albums
Add Comment

BG: Cripple Creek

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
6 people like this

Play count: 2952
Size: 789kb, uploaded 10/26/2006 12:10:41 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


When I started banjo, this was THE song you started with. My fretless banjo, accompanied by my guitar strumming.
Add Comment

BG: Mountain Dew

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
2 people like this

Play count: 175
Size: 671kb, uploaded 1/8/2007 11:19:18 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Verse and chorus, to see if I could kinda remember it. Kinda is the operative word.
Add Comment

BG: Sally Goodin

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 216
Size: 595kb, uploaded 8/23/2007 2:03:20 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Just in case you thought I had completely forgotten about bluegrass, Here is a tune I am working on.
1 comment

BG: Sally Goodin Take II

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
5 people like this

Play count: 889
Size: 1,301kb, uploaded 8/28/2007 12:48:39 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Practice a little, worked up a claw version, and added bass and guitar. A little shaky kicking it off, but then it settles down
1 comment

Bicycle Cello: More Cello Banjo

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 156
Size: 3,065kb, uploaded 9/18/2007 12:53:22 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Redwing, Red-haired Boy, and Cripple Creek. This is the audio from my Youtube video, posted for the bandwidth impaired
Add Comment

Bicycle Cello: Redwing

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 220
Size: 2,171kb, uploaded 9/16/2007 10:44:13 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Here is the Bicycle Cello's maiden voyage. The sound reminded me of Hunter Robertson's version of Redwing, so thats what I played with first.
Add Comment

Bicycle Cello: Redwing Take 2

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 141
Size: 1,007kb, uploaded 9/17/2007 12:50:20 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Dropped the pick and played finger style
1 comment

Chillable Red Medley

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 524
Size: 2,252kb, uploaded 4/15/2007 4:41:28 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


A selection of tunes on my chillable red wine box banjo
4 comments

Chillable Red: Shaving a Dead Man

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 543
Size: 963kb, uploaded 4/15/2007 9:00:45 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen

2 comments

Christmas: Angels I and I have Heard

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 340
Size: 1,845kb, uploaded 12/22/2007 2:57:44 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


I fully blame JohnD for this. 'nuff said.
1 comment

Christmas: Angels we have heard on high

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 339
Size: 1,037kb, uploaded 12/22/2007 12:59:56 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Angels we have heard on high, Sweetly singing over the plains. And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains. Gloria in excelsis Deo! Gloria in excelsis Deo!
1 comment

Christmas: Joy to the World

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
2 people like this

Play count: 381
Size: 868kb, uploaded 12/22/2007 12:56:58 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Joy to the world, the Lord is come Let earth receive her king. Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and heaven and nature sing
1 comment

Christmas: Mike Gregory's Run, Mary, Run

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
2 people like this

Play count: 141
Size: 2,570kb, uploaded 9/23/2007 1:16:56 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Our own Mike Gregory penned this tune, and I don't think I noticed a single pun anywhere. I thought maybe he would write the lyrics without using the letter L... then it could have been a No L Song. Think about it... Yule thank me later.
2 comments

Christmas: Silent Night

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 421
Size: 1,313kb, uploaded 12/22/2007 12:54:10 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child! Holy infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.
Add Comment

Christmas: Silent Night CH

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 193
Size: 727kb, uploaded 11/6/2006 12:14:10 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


My gourd. Currently strung with steel, because my fishing line had more stretch than the Yopp tuner could deal with. Recorded for this thread: http://www.banjohangout.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=55358
Add Comment

City of New Orleans

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
2 people like this

Play count: 448
Size: 3,542kb, uploaded 9/21/2008 6:20:08 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


A Yopp X 6 production. CH banjo, Bicycle cello banjo, ukulele, rain stick (off camera) and vocals.
1 comment

Electric: eYopp

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 203
Size: 2,075kb, uploaded 5/22/2007 11:36:47 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Its gonna be loud around my house for a while.
Add Comment

Electric: RHB

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 91
Size: 1,065kb, uploaded 5/26/2007 1:30:32 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Jimi meets the red haired boy
1 comment

Insp: Amazing Grace

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 573
Size: 1,241kb, uploaded 10/9/2007 9:03:02 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Just messing around with the slides
2 comments

Insp: How Great Thou Art

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 559
Size: 1,296kb, uploaded 1/18/2008 11:39:48 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


My arrangement of this song.
2 comments

Insp: I know I been changed

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 433
Size: 2,475kb, uploaded 1/6/2007 2:32:02 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


This spiritual came to my attention via the new Waits collection. I found a couple of other reference mp3s to listen to and this is what I came up with.
6 comments

Insp: In Remembrance of Me

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 292
Size: 1,959kb, uploaded 4/3/2008 1:31:11 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen

Add Comment

Insp: Sweet Hour Medley

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 359
Size: 3,631kb, uploaded 10/16/2007 12:28:18 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Plugged in this evening, initially playing with There is a Fountain. Then it slid into Sweet Hour and I liked it, so I hit record. After the first pass of Sweet hour, 'I surrender all' just kind of popped out on its own. That it was the first time I had played it shows, but I was surprised to hear it at all.
1 comment

Insp: Sweet hour of prayer

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 710
Size: 3,678kb, uploaded 10/13/2007 1:42:52 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


After playing with Colemans March, this old hymn started falling out. The high bit is not great, but before frets I wouldn't have tried it. I will have to get used to frailing up that high.
1 comment

Insp: Warfare

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 1362
Size: 3,075kb, uploaded 10/26/2006 12:02:05 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


I heard this one on the High Atmosphere collection. E.C. Ball singing and playing guitar. Tuned gCGBD
2 comments

Misc: Blues Forever

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 44
Size: 2,402kb, uploaded 8/5/2007 11:43:43 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Take two
Add Comment

Misc: Midi from tab: Drunken Lullabies

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 161
Size: 218kb, uploaded 4/8/2008 10:48:11 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


For teaching purposes only.
Add Comment

Misc: With the Bow

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 44
Size: 563kb, uploaded 9/18/2007 11:26:06 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Cello banjo played with a bow. Its waync's fault
Add Comment

Nontraditional: Acoustic Pachelbel's Canon

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
8 people like this

Play count: 890
Size: 2,356kb, uploaded 5/6/2008 10:02:13 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Here's a longer, all acoustic version of Pachelbel's Canon in D (played in G) featuring the Bicycle Cello, the StewMac kitjo, and a PVC G whistle.
5 comments

Nontraditional: Ave Maria

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
5 people like this

Play count: 459
Size: 1,379kb, uploaded 12/22/2007 4:08:02 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Ave Maria Gratia plena Maria, gratia plena Maria, gratia plena Ave, ave dominus Dominus tecum Benedicta tu in mulieribus Et benedictus Et benedictus fructus ventris Ventris tuae, Jesus. Ave Maria
Add Comment

Nontraditional: Bigtime

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
2 people like this

Play count: 35
Size: 4,147kb, uploaded 2/28/2008 1:42:21 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


In honor of Bigtime Entertainment attempting to scam me with their pay to play ripoff, here's a really bad version of Big Time.
Add Comment

Nontraditional: House of the Rising Sun

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
2 people like this

Play count: 808
Size: 3,943kb, uploaded 5/30/2007 2:22:39 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Welcome to my first ever complete song using the electrotransmogrified YoppJo. This also has my first ever electric solo.
1 comment

Nontraditional: La Marseillaise

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 71
Size: 1,366kb, uploaded 10/9/2007 9:06:54 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


The French National Anthem, clawwed
Add Comment

Nontraditional: Pachelbel's Cannon

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 501
Size: 1,106kb, uploaded 9/12/2007 12:19:25 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Yeah, its supposed to be 'Canon' but this isn't quite the quiet rondo Pachelbel had in mind.
1 comment

Nontraditional: Sur le pont

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
2 people like this

Play count: 441
Size: 989kb, uploaded 4/24/2007 9:25:41 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Something for Haiku
1 comment

Nontraditional: Turpentine

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 338
Size: 3,007kb, uploaded 1/6/2007 6:05:44 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


The song was written by The Hangdog Expression (www.hangdogexpression.com). A great song by BHO member Nvonflue and company.
1 comment

Original: Daffidils

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 517
Size: 2,745kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 2:45:17 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


My musical life started with the uke, so here is a tune to recapture my childhood.
3 comments

Original: Drought

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 269
Size: 1,634kb, uploaded 1/7/2007 11:05:28 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


I wrote this a couple a decades ago. Always wanted to do something with it. Now I have. No banjo on this one. I recorded the thunder out on my porch during a storm. That got some odd stares from my family, Yopp rushing out with his laptop in the middle of a downpour.
Add Comment

Original: I love you (more than dustmites)

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
5 people like this

Play count: 929
Size: 1,561kb, uploaded 11/28/2006 9:22:59 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


This is a song I wrote based on the nightly bedtime ritual I share with my daughter. This is our first recording together, but I hope to do more with her.
8 comments

Original: My Children

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 436
Size: 2,163kb, uploaded 10/1/2007 11:34:26 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Another Yopp original exclusive. The Yopp trio sings this tune I wrote about my children. Accompanied by Yopp, of course, on banjo.
1 comment

Original: Norbert

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 685
Size: 1,352kb, uploaded 12/12/2006 12:53:55 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Just heard about Boog's friend, Norbert, and thought he deserved a bit of tribute.
2 comments

Original: Yopp's Lament

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 636
Size: 1,701kb, uploaded 5/2/2007 12:24:18 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


I have been taken of late by the ease with which dubba C can play in the major or minor. This happy little tune is the results of my little crush.
1 comment

Trad: Boneparte Crossing the Rhine

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 601
Size: 1,025kb, uploaded 7/4/2007 12:20:50 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


My first attempt at playing fiddle... in a musical context.
Add Comment

Trad: Coleman's March - Fretted

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 399
Size: 1,937kb, uploaded 10/12/2007 1:02:06 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Same tune, but this time with the fretted Yoppjo
Add Comment

Trad: Colemans March

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
7 people like this

Play count: 682
Size: 1,714kb, uploaded 10/8/2007 11:13:02 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


A little Yoppjo/Bicycle Cello duet based on the video that drove me to build the cello.
3 comments

Trad: Country Blues

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
8 people like this

Play count: 886
Size: 2,907kb, uploaded 3/31/2007 5:50:38 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


I have been a bit reserved of late, so I thought it was time to put the new Yoppjo to some good use.
4 comments

Trad: Down in the Arkansas

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 1459
Size: 1,828kb, uploaded 10/26/2006 12:05:34 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


A local group, The Old School Bluegrass Band, had this one on one of their albums. It amused me.
1 comment

Trad: Dubba D Mix

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  

Play count: 507
Size: 2,914kb, uploaded 3/20/2007 1:55:46 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Here is the new YoppJo 2.01. I grooved my nut a bit too deep, so I will have to fix that. Its late, and my hands are feeling sluggish. Sorry for the slop.
1 comment

Trad: Eight of January

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 131
Size: 719kb, uploaded 1/8/2007 12:59:31 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Sorry its a bit rough. I have been playing that song all of 10 minutes. I wanted to have it posted by.. January 8th
1 comment

Trad: Grandma's in the Cellar

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 1140
Size: 1,027kb, uploaded 11/3/2006 10:49:52 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


A campfire, gross-out song I learned as a kid on a church trip. As soon as I have time, I am going to redo this one with my little girl singing the lead. I know her grandma will be proud.
3 comments

Trad: Minstrel Boy

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
3 people like this

Play count: 553
Size: 1,158kb, uploaded 3/24/2007 11:18:50 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


Inspired by Erich's minstrel boy noodling.
Add Comment

Trad: Prodigal Son

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
14 people like this

Play count: 1678
Size: 4,171kb, uploaded 10/26/2006 11:59:18 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


I first heard this at a jam. I was unable to take a break and the guy that started the song told me afterward that it was a Dock Boggs tune, made for banjo! I investigated and was hooked. Banjo is in standard G, capoed at around the 4th.
4 comments

Trad: Tennesee Dog

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
5 people like this

Play count: 1229
Size: 1,950kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 2:41:56 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


I blame this one on Erich
1 comment

Trad: Tennessee Dog - Banjo only

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
1 person likes this

Play count: 402
Size: 773kb, uploaded 10/9/2007 9:12:43 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


More of an evening's noodles on the new Yoppjo
1 comment

untitled

Posted by Yopparai

[download]  
4 people like this

Play count: 290
Size: 2,805kb, uploaded 6/13/2008 9:49:01 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen


A little doodle that found its way out of my banjo. Welcome back from Iraq, Thom!
1 comment

Copyright Notice:
You are allowed to post recordings of yourself performing:
- public-domain (non-copyrighted) songs
- original songs written by yourself
- songs written by someone else and licensed through ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC

Anything posted in violation of this notice may be removed by the webmaster without prior notice, and may result in your myHangout account being locked. Read complete copyright policy.

You are not logged in.
Log In


Not a member? Create an Account (FREE!)



2083 BANJO LOVERS ONLINE

HOME | FORUMS | MEMBERS | MEDIA ARCHIVE | TABS & LESSONS | CLASSIFIEDS | REVIEWS | LINKS | CALENDAR | STORE | TERMS OF USE