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Darlin Nelly Gray

1/25/2014

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Yeah - Here is a banjo version that stuck in my head for a long time. Master Kyle round peak clawhammer. I was fortunate to hear him play in the mid 1970s jamming at the Brandywine Mountain Music convention in Pennsylvania. He was making and selling banjos back then - I should have bought one.
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Arnie Naiman & Chris Coole in Rockwood ON

1/19/2014

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We had a super fine time at Music In The Wood in Rockwood Ontario teaching banjo & doing an evening concert.

The tune we were learning in the intermediate/advanced clawhammer class was a fiddle tune called West Fork Gals from Wilson Douglas WV.
Here is the tab in a pdf file. You can listen to the tune on "5 Strings Attached ~ Vol 2"


west_fork_gals-_tab.pdf
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The Last Days of Autumn - tab and video

1/6/2014

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the_last_days_of_autumn_-_tab.pdf
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Well here's another tune of mine I recorded on "5 Strings Attached Volume 2". For you clawhammer players what is interesting about it -is that it is played in the key of G, but not in the standard G tuning most popular. To get into this particular tuning first get into a standard type double c tuning ( g CGCD ) , then put a capo on the 2nd fret and tune the 3rd string down to match the g of the 5th string. So now you get gDGDE. This is a terrific tuning for fiddle  tunes in G that may have E or Em chords within the tune and has a beautiful sound.

Here I am playing it on my Jason Romero banjo.
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Ivan Rosenberg & Chris Coole

1/5/2014

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My old banjo pal Chris Coole has teamed up with dobro wiz Ivan Rosenberg to make some wonderful sounding music. They have a nice website you can look at. I've always loved the dobro and promise to give it a try in my next life, but until then check out the video clip.
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Adam Hurt

1/4/2014

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Adam Hurt happens to be one of the best clawhammer style banjo players going and a great guy to boot, so I suggest you go and buy all his stuff. He put out a stellar gourd banjo recording that's beautiful beyond belief - Earth Tones.
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Rickard banjo parts & banjos

1/2/2014

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Bill Rickard makes much of the best quality banjo parts in the world right here in Aurora Ontario! Check out his WEBSITE
Also - if you want to buy one of his banjos -good news!  I sell them! Look at our Maple Ridge Banjo Page.
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My Lucky Stars - new banjo tune

1/2/2014

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I play a style of 2 finger melodic picking here on my banjo made by Jason Romero
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Banjo Tab for "Walking The Dog"

1/2/2014

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walking_the_dog_tab.pdf
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Clawhammer style banjo.
Recorded on "5 Strings Attached with no Bakcing" and "Gentleman From Virginia"
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Banjo curious? Drop in and check out some posts and feel free to comment.

1/2/2014

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