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I bought a banjo over 12 months ago. Sounded bloody awfull and lost interest in it, that is until I discovered the strings were all wrong. When I put new strings on it sounded great. I've been practicing about an hour everyday since. I have no one to jam with so I learned the chords my self and pinking patterns and welded them together in various roles. I've got about 5 pieces that don't sound half bad. They tend to sound more like balads or Bluse though. I do have a couple of pieces that sound more like the traditional banjo. Playing them sounds good but each piece last about 45 seconds to a min before turning around to the start. Is there a way of streaching them out to about three min or so without being boring for the listener? Sounds like a dopy question I know but I would like to play in front of my freinds and have a half decent repitwar. i have been told you may well play a piece very well on your own but tend to fall over infront of an audiance.
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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Think of the tune as a song - a song repeats through verses and chorus until the words are all gone. A banjo tune (at least the OT stuff I play), tends to be in a format of 8 bars repeated once as the A part, then another 8 bars repeated once as the B part. Since most of them were originally dance tunes played on the fiddle, they would tend to be repeated (AABB) until it looked like the dancers were ready for a break. In an OT jam, they may last anywhere from 3-4 times through to 10-12 - 20, whenever the caller signaled an end. When I was in college in the 1960s, there was a party where the bass line of honkey-tonk music was played continuously (with players stepping in when someone got tired), for over 5 hours. That said, if you notice your audience losing interest, or you lose interest, end it. Probably plan on being able to play the tune at least 3 times through (AABBAABBAABB), and you should be ok.
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viking Approved 
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Hi Dave Although I have been performing to small public audiences for some 10 years or so it is only in the last few years that I have stopped relying on my vocals and the changing lyric to introduce continued interest throughout any given song. I have had to go over all of my old repertoire and more so when I learn a new song, now, I am constantly looking for variations from verse to verse to play. A bass run here, a grace note there, a pulled off note, a hammer on, an unexpected diminished chord, a change of chord position. It's the endless possibilities of interpretation that makes music so interesting. So to play the same tune for longer look for more ways to play it. Hear You Soon MARK
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