Harriman's Quickstep.wmv

Comment by Al Smitley on March 25, 2015 at 5:23am

Nice job.  Some of those from the last quarter of the 19th C seem like an awful lot to memorize but it doesn't look as though you're reading the music.  I suppose that's the reason some of the multi-part  dance music, such as Jenny Lind Polka, or Rochester Schottische survive among today's fiddlers with only two parts.  Understandable but really, too bad because the key changes are often interesting.

Comment by Paul Draper on March 25, 2015 at 8:45am

Yes! Sounds really good - that banjo sounds perfect for this piece.

Comment by Tim Twiss on March 25, 2015 at 9:06am

Thanks. I found it had a great "shimmer" to it. Does yours feel similar. Hard to explain, but I felt it in these tunes in this triIt is the way all the harmonics work together and resonate on the instrument.

Comment by Tim Twiss on March 25, 2015 at 9:08am

Stoke, Guitar Style....fretted, fretless. All highly interchangeable components, aren't they?

Comment by Paul Draper on March 25, 2015 at 9:23am

I can't get mine to shimmer, but it does resonate. I can't play up the neck all that much because the action is high, but I have to keep the action high to eliminate a buzz down at the first or second fret. It's not perfect... No one else has played it, so I don't know if it's "easy" to play or not...

Comment by Strumelia on March 25, 2015 at 2:33pm

Curious as to the difference between something like this piece and Classic style banjo.  To my uneducated ears this sounds like 'classic' classic banjo, so I'd like to know.

Comment by Paul Draper on March 25, 2015 at 2:42pm

To mine also, except classic style per se is played finger-style, right?

Comment by Tim Twiss on March 25, 2015 at 3:06pm

I am not knowledgeable at ALL about Classic Banjo, but I think that a lot of the material in this book is considered early classic, and crossing over into it.

Comment by Tim Twiss on March 25, 2015 at 3:23pm

HOWEVER....this one is listed as "banjo style". Go figure. Hard as heck on a fretless. Even when I pull it off, it never sounds that good. Certainly fretted.

Comment by John Cohen on April 2, 2015 at 10:15pm

Lovely playing and banjo!

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