Boatman's Dance (Mark Campbell and Joe Ayers) LIVE on WTJU

Comment by Nicholas A Bechtel on January 17, 2012 at 1:18am

OUTSTANDING!!

Comment by flatfoot johnny on January 17, 2012 at 1:57pm

woo... i love this!

Comment by Mark Weems on January 21, 2012 at 11:34pm

good question, Paul. You should post a new Topic up on the site and get a discussion going about it.

Comment by Tim Twiss on January 23, 2012 at 11:14pm

What a steady and lovely groove!

Comment by Nicholas A Bechtel on January 23, 2012 at 11:35pm

To Paul's question; I play the fiddle as well, and most of the songs that I am learning for the minstrel banjo I also learn on the fiddle. I just read the sheet music and of course play the melody. The hard time I have is taking a tune from reading the sheet music and give it that stroke style pattern to the music on my banjo. Unless the tune is written for the early banjo style of playing, I have a hard time figuring out how to approach the song as it would be played on the banjo.  Defiantly a different topic. 

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