Two Finger Picking

  
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Here's a little thing I've been playing around with picking two strings at once.

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Dobro Dojo?

Never heard of one of these before, but I love it...

Must remember, no more instruments this year!

Sandy River Belle

Carl sent me this version of Sandy River by Annie and Mac on Youtube.

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Sick of telling people the unfeasably long blogspot address for Northern Banjo Boy, I decided to get on the cash-nazi dot com trail and buy northern banjo boy .com. It seemed like a bargain for $10 a year, so if your fingers are bleeding from typing those extra eight characters, then relax cos from now on http://www.northernbanjoboy.com/ is all you need to type.

I don't know why I'm so excited about this?....

PS if you don't care http://www.northernbanjoboy.blogspot.com/ still works anyway!

Two practice tunes

Been posting a few versions of Sandy River Belle recently, and without wantin to bore you here's another.
I think i've worked out the A and B parts now much more clearly, and I've also started incorporating abit of the tab from David's Clawhammer site.

I've also been working on the guitar and this is a little exercise form my tutor book using Dsus2 and Dsus4, I've just bolted on a bit of A and G!

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David's Clawhammer Banjo Site

David's Clawhammer Banjo Site is a treasure for anyone looking for excellent tabs - it's got just about everything and usually in several variations.

Check out the tabs for Sandy River Belle which I'll be using as soon as I can stretch my technique. There are about 6 versions on the site!
Sandy River Belle
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3

Sandy River Belle

Further Muppetry

I should be working but hey... relax.

Beaker's Ballad

This captures absolutely the existential angst of the music blogger.

Sandy River Belle - Agin

There are so many different versions of this tune, and here's another go by me.

Big Mama Sue and Fast Eddie Erickson

  Check out these guys from Jamie Blakeley's You Tube site.
Got the kazoo now I need a wash board!

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Sandy River Belle

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This is probably the hardest thing I've tried to learn.
It's an old fiddle tune from the Tim Jumper 'Banjo Songbook'
I'm it's much more of a clawhammer style with few strums in the melody.
It's killing me! but I will get it right.

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Coal Porters Mr Guthrie

The Coal Porters | MySpace Music Videos

  Sid Griffin, of Long Riders fame, has new band the Coal Porters and they sound fantastic.
Alt bluegrass anyone?

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'Don't do anything...'

  
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The best bits from the last practice session in February, featuring me, Carl and Mark D.
 

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