Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: ExpertBanjo Etude
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, last updated: 3/24/2013 5:51:42 PM
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Notes: Just wrote this yesterday (3/11/13), will re-post when I get around to putting some fingerings in, also hoping to get an mp3 up soon.
Quarter = 130 - 140 is about right and be free in the use of dynamics. Copyright, me, 2013, enjoy! |
Genre: Classical Style: Classical Difficulty: IntermediateBransle de Burgogne
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, last updated: 11/1/2011 10:12:10 AM
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Notes: This was composed by Adrian Leroy, whose years were 1520 - 1598. The tuning, gDGBE capoed at the 5th fret, gives you the same tuning as the Renaissance guitar, the instrument it was written for. Of course we have the added advantage of the fifth string, which I used a lot here (see bars 10, 12, and 27). Enjoy! |
Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: IntermediateGod Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, last updated: 9/23/2011 10:33:51 AM
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Genre: Jazz Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)Lester Young's solo on "Pennies From Heaven"
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, last updated: 11/17/2011 7:45:40 AM
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Notes: This is a gorgeous solo that Lester Young (aka "Prez") played in 1950 over the chord changes to "pennies From Heaven." Clicking the youtube link should get you there. Performance notes and further discussion are on my BHO blog page. Enjoy!
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Difficulty: ExpertRoll Etude
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, last updated: 3/24/2013 6:23:30 PM
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Notes: This is an "etude" as much for me as anyone else - I'm studying "Bach language" and "banjo language," and playing around with modulation - all part of getting me where I want to go compositionally. I like it at quarter = 175, with the middle section a little slower. In any case I think a metronomic approach to this might not conform to "the composer's intent." I'll learn to play it and letcha know! :o)
The chicago-capoed-at-the-fifth-fret tuning is because I originally wrote this on my ukulele.
Copyright now, me.
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Genre: Folk Style: Classical Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: IntermediateShto Mi e Milo
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, last updated: 1/26/2012 10:32:33 AM
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Notes: Here's the Yale Women's Slavic Chorus singing this at the Parents' Weekend concert in the fall of 2010. I was "there" for this, but as we were running late, I dropped off Madame and spent the next 45 minutes driving around New Haven looking for a parking spot, then running around campus asking for directions, finally dashing up just as everyone was leaving!
http://youtu.be/4jV6rNuorxM |
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