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Sheet Music for Oh, I'se So Wicked?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Paul Draper Jun 30, 2016. 1 Reply

I'm wondering where the tune for this as Bob Flesher sings and plays it came from. It's not in any of the standard tab books, nor is it in the Instructors that Tim Twiss has made available. Before I…Continue

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How did you find out about Ning Minstrel Banjo?
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How long have you played banjo?
50 years
What kind of banjo(s) do you own?
1924 Tubaphone, S.S. Stewart Amateur, Ramsey Fretless, Goldtone

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At 8:54am on July 1, 2016, Al Smitley said…

I've always liked the banjo accompaniment that Flesher does with that tune.

I almost like the accompaniment (during his singing) more than the instrumental breaks.

At 10:53am on July 1, 2016, Marsh Leicester said…

Yeah, Flesher has developed a really nice sense of how to vamp behind the voice. It stops short of a full Round Peak lick, and to my ear stays in period but really keeps the drive going. His Jim Along Josey has that too. I still would like to know where he got the inspiration and detail for this., If he made that banjo part up it's a very nice new creation in the spirit of minstrel style, and in my preliminary stab at figuring it out from the record it's not as hard as I thought at least in its large shape - but he plays fast!. I had already found the Topsy sheet music, and maybe that was his source, but I was hoping for a source in the banjo literature as well. What a cool list this is!

At 11:43am on July 1, 2016, Al Smitley said…

Yes, "drive" is the best term for that accompaniment.

At 7:34pm on July 1, 2016, Mark Weems said…

I too cut my teeth on Flesher, even buying one of his minstrel banjo's back in 95. While a great banjo player who produced much useful tabs for early banjo at a time when there really wasn't any out there, Flesher looked backwards from modern Clawhammer approaches/speeds and assumed that was what they were doing back in the day. If he was singing without a modern sound system in an old theater all of his notes and words would be all jumbled together.  

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