Antietam Jig

Comment by Strumelia on January 25, 2014 at 6:43pm

Very nice Noah!  I like the swinginess of that tune.  Great that you have an Allen Hart banjer.  :)

I notice you are playing in C, and am I mistaken or are your strings not very tight?- have you tried tuning up a step to D to see how the string tension feels there?  What's the scale length?- looks not too long to try something like that, just to experiment.

Comment by Paul Draper on January 25, 2014 at 8:17pm

Wow Noah awesome!

Comment by Noah Cline on January 25, 2014 at 8:47pm

Strumelia, I have that banjo tuned to dGDF#A in the vid, and played it in C position, but I've tuned it to eAEG#B and down to cFCEG before. It sounds good in those pitches, but seems to sound best in D.

The scale is about 25".

I know that the original key for "Antietam Jig" is D in eAEG#B tuning.

Comment by Strumelia on January 25, 2014 at 9:26pm

Ah, I see, so you've tried it both above and below and in the middle...that's good.  :)

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