TUNE OF THE WEEK FOR NOV. 11TH

[Paul Draper]

I nominate Mr. Chris Prieto to choose this week’s TOTW

[Chris Prieto]

I'm still deciding on a tune, will post this evening :)

[Chris Prieto]

Okay so after much thinking I'm going with Sally Come Up from Buckley 1868. I've never played it and it doesn't seem to be all over YouTube so I figure we can fix that. I will try and post sooner than I usually do.

[Paul Draper]

Cool. I’ve never played it either so it’ll be a new one...

[Rob Mohr]

You found a tune Paul doesn't know???!!! How deep in the archive did you have to find that?? LOL

I watched Tim's video from about 10 years ago. I noticed it's all hammer strokes, very little thumb. Although as I was feeling it out, it almost sets up to alternate finger-thumb...now it's got me thinking...

[Timothy Twiss]

Has anybody used the Lester Levy Collection lately? It seems to have changed, and a search is not as easy as it was. I wanted to find source material for "Sally Come Up"

[Paul Draper]

Hi Tim -  I just found this:  https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/2085/discover

[Paul Draper]

Ignore that link. I had a page with sally come up, but that’s not the link...

[Paul Draper]

Try this link:

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/024/101

[Paul Draper]

Here’s another version:  http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/024/102

[Paul Draper]

(You’re right, not easy to find...)

[Timothy Twiss]

Thanks. The search engine has changed. so....it's cool to see where these songs came from, isn't it? Most have DNA in something

[Timothy Twiss]

In my mind, when I encounter a new "banjo" song from back then, I put it into one of three categories.....

• It is arranged from a vocal tune, and played like "Come Up Sally"......or it gets the "bum ditty" approach like Briggs' did. 
• It comes from a fiddle tune. Usually not too much changes from the source
• A unique banjo song, composed and arranged specifically so the it "fits" the instrument. The composition is melded with the instrument. Stuff like the Buckleys wrote..."Rapahanock Jig" etc.