Modal Noodle

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Size: 2,151kb, uploaded 10/24/2018 12:53:00 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tunaday #27 - In Sawmill tuning - (gDGCD). A rare, for me, foray into TFTL playing.

Mudpots

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tunaday #263 - Tuning is g#(BEBE) - known as Dead Man's" E-tuning.

Muted Melody

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Genre: Other / Playing Style: Other

I just posted a review of Mike’s Banjo Mute which I have been using for several months and works well. I mentioned in the review that although the sound of the banjo is different and has more sustain / less decay, I still like the tones it produces and the tune I’m posting just kind of almost wrote itself as I was practicing. It needed a name so the obvious one stood out – Muted Melody. Hope you like it and it gives you an idea of how the mute affects the sound. In Standard G tuning (gDGBD)

October Leaves

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tunaday #21 - In Sawmill tuning - (gDGCD)

Otvyet

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Tunaday #289 - In Dick Weissman E-minor tuning (bBGBE)

Ounce of Bounce

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tunaday #38 - G tuning (gDGBD)

Out On A Whim

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Size: 2,133kb, uploaded 7/15/2018 2:14:23 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tunaday #56 - In Open D tuning with raised 5th (aDF#AD).

Peace Notes

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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Other

Here's hoping this rock is a little less crazy a place in the coming years. Merry Christmas to all of you, or happy whatever else you might celebrate, and a peaceful 2016. Banjo is just an accent piece in this one. Guitar in Drop D tuning, banjo standard g tuning.

Peppy Step

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Size: 1,767kb, uploaded 11/1/2019 12:37:32 PM
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Tunaday #208 - Open D Raised 5th tuning - (aDF#AD)

Perilous Path

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Tunaday #371 - In D variant tuning (aDACD).

Pond Shanty

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Tunaday #104 - In GModal-f tuning (fDGCD). Thought it sounded shantyish to me, probably not strictly by definition, and not good enough to be a sea shanty or even a lake shanty, bu hopefully better than a puddle shanty.

Pork Roll Egg and Cheese

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Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Thought I'd post a 3 finger original tune instead of a CH for a change. Named after the iconic NJ breakfast sandwich. Composed many years ago, I made this rough recording around 2016 and added a guitar track today to help hide, with little success, the mediocre banjo picking. Happy Independence holiday everyone.

Portent

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Size: 2,049kb, uploaded 11/14/2014 6:19:20 PM
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Unleashing the latest wanderings of my mind and fingers on the unsuspecting banjo public. In Double C.

Positive Spin

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Size: 1,734kb, uploaded 11/10/2018 12:11:04 PM
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Tunaday #32 - In standard G tuning (gDGBD)

Possum Jamboree

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Tunaday #30 - In Sawmill - (gDGCD). A few weeks ago JanetB posted a medley of Possum tunes and I mentioned I was gonna have to come up with a possum tune one of these days. Here it is.

Prairie Wind

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Tunaday #107 - In G Modal-f (fDGCD).

Pripyat Lament

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Size: 1,702kb, uploaded 5/21/2018 1:58:07 PM
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Tunaday #63 - In G minor tuning (gDGA#D).

Ramble

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Genre: Other / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Been working on a couple of new fingerpicked tunes. Here's one of them, a bit off the beaten path. In Double C.

Restive Journey

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Size: 1,635kb, uploaded 7/30/2018 8:13:41 AM
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Tunaday #347 - A Peggy Seeger "dulcimer" tuning (gDGDD)

Ricksters Jig

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Size: 2,299kb, uploaded 3/19/2019 5:18:56 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tunaday #20 - In Sawmill tuning - (gDGCD). Came up with this just over 3 years ago. I'm wondering if it sounds like some other tune that I may have borrowed from (or stolen !!??). Hope not. Most of my music listening is on BHO so if I heard something it was here.