Posted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 55
Size: 3,734kb, uploaded 4/19/2015 2:27:42 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Porch playing on a Sunday afternoon. I will never get tired of experimenting with this tune. Maybe, because of this: http://chicagogenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/09/runkeeper-to-rescue-how-i-found-mr.html
5 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 170
Size: 3,331kb, uploaded 2/9/2016 5:39:40 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learning the basics from a Gaither Carlton version. This is rough draft #1.
4 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 115
Size: 720kb, uploaded 10/14/2013 6:01:16 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Another lesson tune that's become an all-time favorite. Recorded 12 Oct 2013.
5 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 291
Size: 4,149kb, uploaded 3/14/2015 3:04:12 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Practice recording, saved for comparison to earlier recording of the same tune.
Add CommentPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 318
Size: 1,851kb, uploaded 11/10/2013 7:15:33 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Another practice recording uploaded for safekeeping. I was experimenting with foam by the bridge as a way of muting the metallic ring and I kind of like the way it changes the sound. Recorded 8 Nov 2013.
2 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
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- Play count: 237
Size: 8,499kb, uploaded 7/24/2015 12:02:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A banjo version of the tune inspired by the Dear Old Illinois recording of Stelle Elam playing it on the fiddle. The file has two separate recordings--similar, but different!
2 commentsPosted by VioletMoon, written by Benjamin Hanby
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- Play count: 69
Size: 1,346kb, uploaded 6/7/2015 8:11:40 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from a combination of the Leftwich book, a workshop led by Rafe Stefanini, and the Kyle Creed recording. I commit a bit of tempo sin as I settle in and I need to figure out how to get better tone, but I really like playing this tune! And, yes, I live by a very busy road. :)
2 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 86
Size: 17,452kb, uploaded 1/11/2014 12:02:16 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I turned on the recorder when I was playing last night and ended up saving eight tunes that I've been working on from lessons: Half-Shaved, Coming through the Canebreak, Jack Wilson, Soldier’s Joy, Tally Ho, Old Joe Clark, Donna’s Got a Rambling Mind, Cripple Creek. I'm uploading them for safe-keeping. What a happy thing--learning to play the banjo!
1 commentPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 61
Size: 4,762kb, uploaded 3/6/2015 5:13:21 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
One of my favorite Dan Gellert tunes. I've struggled to figure out the structure but I think I might be getting close to maybe sort of having the appropriate number of measures? I love playing around with this tune! Someday, I'll cringe when I hear it, but right now, I like how it's coming along. : )
2 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 1039
Size: 4,524kb, uploaded 8/23/2018 11:18:37 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A quick "porch" recording of a Watson family tune that I originally learned from David Bragger. More information about it can be found in the 24 August 2018 TOTW post.
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- Play count: 239
Size: 4,002kb, uploaded 11/30/2015 7:37:40 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I've been playing around with this ever since it was suggested as a "trance tune." Lots of fun!
4 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 200
Size: 2,448kb, uploaded 10/27/2017 6:19:57 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Quick example, based on the Gaither Carlton version that appears on FRC 118.
1 commentPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 779
Size: 2,931kb, uploaded 9/20/2019 10:08:43 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A quick, one-time-through, unpolished, unarranged, work-in-progress, recorded with a computer mic for TOTW. This is such a fun tune to experiment with on the porch. :)
Add CommentPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 47
Size: 1,916kb, uploaded 3/23/2016 10:02:15 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I'm very fond of this tune. I picked up the basics from a Gaither Carlton recording and I've been experimenting with it ever since.
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- Play count: 740
Size: 4,022kb, uploaded 4/19/2015 2:23:20 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Porch playing. One take. A few things to still work on, but I'm happy with the way it's coming along.
1 commentPosted by VioletMoon
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- Play count: 49
Size: 5,284kb, uploaded 10/20/2015 10:52:27 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A practice recording of a version of June Apple that I worked out for a contest earlier this month, thinking it would be better to plan ahead rather than play in porch mode in front of an audience. In retrospect, it was the wrong tune (chosen for the right reasons) and nervous mistakes got the best of me. Happens! I'm not sure I like where I've taken it--Mr. Ward, forgive me for that--but I like that the journey has been my own.
1 commentPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 100
Size: 594kb, uploaded 10/14/2013 5:51:09 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A lesson tune that I've been working on for a few months, uploaded so that it will be here when I want to look back on it someday. Recorded 12 Oct 2013.
2 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 81
Size: 3,753kb, uploaded 7/7/2014 5:39:01 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I made this recording back in June to celebrate one year of toting a banjo around and I decided I should add it to the musical journal I've been keeping on my Hangout page. It's fun to be able to listen back. I hear things I'd like to improve in the months ahead but I'm happy with how things are going and, more importantly, I'm just happy playing the thing. : ) I learned this tune from one of David Bragger's YouTube videos.
2 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 148
Size: 9,270kb, uploaded 10/22/2014 10:16:05 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Looks like it's been three months since I last added a tune to my Music tab. I've been experimenting with this one (I learned it from David Bragger) and so it's a bit all over the place at the moment, but it's a good measure of where I'm at and where I need to go at this point in time. One of my all-time favorites!
9 commentsPosted by VioletMoon
- Play count: 61
Size: 10,528kb, uploaded 4/1/2016 8:20:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I'm back to working on this one, experimenting, looking for the pieces that will make a cohesive whole. Suggestions for improvements would be very welcome. I learned the basics of this tune from David Bragger.
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