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| Posted: Wed Nov 23rd, 2005 02:15 am |
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1four5 Approved 
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Hey thanks for a great story! That would have been soemthing awesome to remember! The slide banjo playing guy is someone I know from a blues forum, and he posted that song without telling it was on a banjo until later. Most guys though it was a nice nasty reso guitar. I agree, as I'm starting to realize the banjo has a potential even nastier for blues than a reso guitar. It's interesting, because some more blues guys are getting into banjos there. When I play blues on mine, it's also basic guitar blues, mostly because I don't know any better  My banjo playing has, however, surpassed my guitar playing by a long shot, and I'm just starting to use the high G string for lead runs. I've never really used it as a drone string, but do use it in my playing any time I can use an accented high G note, or anytime I'm barring above the 5th fret, I bar it as well and use it.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23rd, 2005 04:30 pm |
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22nd Post |
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Philj200 Approved 
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Maybe I'm being too hard-nosed about it. If the effect works, it works. Over the coming holiday I should be able to find time to try some blues on the banjo again. My computer is just to raggy-assed to handle a successful recording. (I've tried a number of times). One of the things I do it roll chords up te neck in a blue-grassy style but with a lot of 7th notes. This is a handy way to ply rythem when a guitar or harmonica or singer is around. Sliding a chord works well too. An F# slide up one fret adds a little feeling without complicated fingering and risking loosing tempo.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23rd, 2005 11:49 pm |
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1four5 Approved
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Here's some more really good, old style banjo blues (first three songs) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=336301 Oh yeah, I'm a banjo chord slider to. I agree, its super simple, and almost a free way to get a couple notes before really getting into the chord. I remember learning that when I was trying to figure out Chuck Berry riffs on my uke That's one thing I LOVE about open G banjo tuning, the 6th-7th shuffle is sinfully simple, and you get a high or a low string to chooze from, to do it on. I also like to work with pentitonic notes while holding a bar.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29th, 2005 01:59 pm |
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Philj200 Approved
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Good stuff. Thanks for pointing them out. The following are my reactions. Mole in the Ground: Excellent frailing; very smooth. Nice breaks. Rock steady tempo. Vocal reminded me of Dave Van Rock divided by the young Doc. Untitled Appalachian Murder Ballad: Fine song. Hear a lot of Robert Johnson in the roots with a touch of what’s his name, the guy who did Short People. The church bell sound verse was a little Lemon-like. All good things. Sugar Baby: Not the best work. Didn’t have the fire of the others. Coo Coo Bird: Nice! Voice reminds me of a laid-back Tim Hardin with a little Doc. Steady…right touch for the song. I do it more aggressively. I wonder where in NJ John lives. Would like to sit-in with him.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29th, 2005 09:56 pm |
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1four5 Approved
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He goes by the name Boogiechillun85 on Big Road Blues. Here's the thread where I got the link to his soundclick page: http://www.bigroadblues.com/dcforum/DCForumID31/401.html
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30th, 2005 03:41 pm |
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26th Post |
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SpecialJ Approved
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Hello everyone, I just stumbled across this thread about blues banjo from a link on BigRoadBlues, recognised "1four5" and then noticed my own stuff was being linked to and discussed. Now, after reading the thread, it appears I have a free beer coming my way thanks to Philj200's kind offer! To clarify one or two little things, all the banjo stuff on my site is done only on banjo, there's no slide guitar on the banjo songs. The banjo itself is a normal 5-string bluegrass type one. Philj's comment about it not sounding distinctively banjo-like is definitely true, though not totally on purpose, I did notice that, but it didn't bother me as I liked how it sounded. Glad you liked the Indian one too Philj200, I plan on putting a longer re-recording of it up soon with much higher audio quality. Banjo Brad and 1four5, thankyou for listening and commenting too, it's a great encouragement to know others are actually listening.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30th, 2005 07:57 pm |
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27th Post |
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Philj200 Approved
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You ever get out to Long Island, bring your banjo. I'll keep some brew on ice. I am soooo frustrated with my recording set up. Should the holiday-gift dice roll right, things might soon change. At an open mike recently (and I may have mentioned it), I was jamming with an intertesting bass man. I started playing a raga (on guitar) after tireing us out on blues. It was Ragiputa, as made famous by the Weavers a jillion years ago. I've since found a version by Ali Arhbar Khan (Ravi's cousin). I once played it for Indian friends and they got very uncomfortable since it is a very serious hymn. Anyway, back at the open mike, I started the melody line as best as I could recall and the bass man jumped and we were off. After a while I realized we were into a little Paint It Black...no harm, no foul. I chanted the lyrics and the bassman started a counter chant with some other vedic thing. It was an experience. I wish we had a flute with us. The audience was amazingly attentive.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2005 12:48 pm |
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SpecialJ Approved
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Thanks PhilJ, i'm many thousands of kilometres away but hey, you never know! Your Indian open-mike thing sounds like it was pretty good fun and interesting. It's good when another musician picks up on something you're doing and rolls with it. At that point it can either sink or swim, usually nowhere in between. (in my experience anyway) Indian scales are a great way to rid of the blues-scale blues!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2005 05:36 pm |
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29th Post |
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Philj200 Approved
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Once a second musician starts to play, the only way to be sure of what they will put down is to pay them to be your sides or have heard them play the same song before and hope they don't change anything. That's the true beauty of a jam session. It's two and two equals five. I once heard Eric Darling (yes, that Eric Darling) sit in with a jazz guitarist (Jim Woods) playing a D'Angelico. It was during the hey day of Washington Square park. The jazz guy was riffing some very modern stuff. Eric came by and was digging it. I offered my guitar to Eric. He said he doesn't play that way. But he said he had the notion to try. The jazz guy played liquid solos and lush, rich chords. Eric played finger-picking cord modulations and runs. After getting a feel for each other, they settled into an up tempo version of Nine Pound Hammer that had 100 people standing around in awed silence. Could have been crap. It was fantastic.
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