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My New Banjo
« on: June 27, 2020, 06:07:19 AM »



1997 Gibson Earl Scruggs Standard



Now I got to learn me to pick it like Earl...


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wZ8U5wQi0" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wZ8U5wQi0</a>

Foggy Mountain Breakdown



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Cripple Creek



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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2020, 06:08:09 AM »
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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2020, 09:36:59 AM »
Lovely instrument HG. You’ll have fun with that. .
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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2020, 02:03:51 AM »
Nice.
Have you mastered that Bass yet?
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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2020, 07:01:41 AM »
This should be easy

https://youtu.be/V_HW_2nve2w
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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2020, 10:07:52 PM »
Quote from: nimrod on June 28, 2020, 02:03:51 AM
Nice.
Have you mastered that Bass yet?


I'm getting there, Kev.  I love that Hofner!

I've learned a number of Beatles songs.  This young lady's videos have been helpful...


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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2020, 10:36:55 PM »
Quote from: nimrod on June 29, 2020, 07:01:41 AM
This should be easy

https://youtu.be/V_HW_2nve2w


Neil Young is playing a 6-string banjo tuned like a guitar.

My Earl Scruggs Standard is a 5-string banjo...















Standard tuning is this...





Fretting, hammer-ons, bends, etc. I know.  I'm good at two-finger Delta Blues picking.  Now I have to learn three-finger Scruggs picking.  Earl Scruggs could pick 12 notes per second.  It'll take me a lot of time to even get close!


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He made one mistake in that performance and Lester Flatt caught it and commented at the end of the video.  At 0:55 he was about to do a run down the neck but did a different roll instead.  He did the run at 1:09 and smiled widely as the camera panned out.  Even his error sounded great!
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« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2020, 11:19:21 PM »
These here young'uns been playing since they's babies...


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Earl's Breakdown



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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2020, 02:19:06 PM »
That's a beauty Baz  icon_love
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« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2020, 08:42:57 PM »
It is, Kev.  I was lucky to find it.  Gibson isn't making banjos anymore ever since floods destroyed their Nashville factory ten years ago.  It was made at a time Gibson went back to making banjos the way they did prior to WWII using higher grades of maple and specially designed tone rings.  The workmanship on the instrument is magnificent and the tone is great after 23 years of aging.





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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2020, 09:31:07 PM »
What a lovely instrument. 
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« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2020, 11:04:43 PM »
Thanks, Moog.  It's a nice one alright.

I think this young lady was inspired by Paul McCartney to do this...


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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2020, 05:17:34 AM »
That is absolutely gorgeous, Barry!

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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2020, 11:03:15 PM »
Yes it is!  Thanks Kelley.

So, you saw Earl Scruggs play Cripple Creek with Doc Watson.  Here's Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs playing it...


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Buck Owens and Roy Clark were always pickin' an' grinnin' to Cripple Creek on Hee Haw...


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Several years before Hee Haw I saw Tracy Newman play,and sing, Cripple Creek on WNET (PBS)...


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Tracy Newman is Laraine Newman's (Saturday Night Live) older sister.


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Re: My New Banjo
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2020, 12:08:32 AM »
Quote from: Hello Goodbye on June 29, 2020, 10:07:52 PM
I'm getting there, Kev.  I love that Hofner!

I've learned a number of Beatles songs.  This young lady's videos have been helpful...



<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWngPsldFhM" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWngPsldFhM</a>


Actually she's playing Day Tripper wrong, their is no slide up in the chorus riff.  ;D
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« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2020, 01:45:33 AM »
^

Now I have to learn it all over again!   ;D

But I'm using the Dunlop Big Stubby bass pick she recommends...




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« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2020, 04:01:28 AM »
You can now play this from my favourite comedy show

https://dai.ly/x2zr86i
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« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2020, 04:34:25 AM »
We never got that show here, Kev.  Looks like fun though.  :)
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« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2020, 08:49:12 AM »
Quote from: Hello Goodbye on November 07, 2020, 04:34:25 AM
We never got that show here, Kev.  Looks like fun though.  :)

It's like a bogan family who just sit around watching TV.

Don't know what the word for Bogan is in America, maybe trailer trash  ha2ha

Here's the original by the inimitable George Formby
George was very popular in the UK I think in the early 50s

https://youtu.be/o0VZ6OHdyXA
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« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2020, 10:56:42 PM »
Lindsey Buckingham plays a 5-string banjo here...


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