Today's one of those days that I love youtube. This is really great all around. Love the playing and singing, beautiful scenery and the deer (or elk?) at the end make for a nice finish. Thanks!
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I cannot believe you were in my neck of the woods as i was discovering you. I feel so cheated! I wouldve fangirled out so maybe its for the best. If you ever travel that same stretch try june. Its beautiful and verdent and that jagged mountain range you passed looks like it could be in a calendar!
@etanbenami I hate to say it, but I don't remember- we just kind of threw it together in the moment. But, yeah, it does sound like g tuning with a capo.
I know it's late, but you can play this out of open A tuning, or you can run the low string all the way down to be an octave below the A string, ie aAAC#E
Wow, I'm jealous. You guys are hotter than heck, and tight as well. Question: It looks like you're playing in D out of a G tuning, but there's more going on at the 5th fret than I'd expect. I'm used to hearing Reuben's Train (closely related) out of an open D tuning. Can you offer any help to the perplexed midnight banjo players out here?
Great question- I never thought of the connection before! It's similar, and likely related, except the thumb in slapping is more on the down part of a down/up figure, and in frailing it's more on upbeats and doesn't knock the string down to the fingerboard- it's more of a cross-wise and somewhat upward motion. But it's another way of getting at a similar groove that seems to suggest the presence of Africanisms in our (often Euro American) bodies and habits.
It's good, but makes me sad that fiddler lady ain't throwin' in the sound of train whistles Also, why does everybody wear black these days? Musta been some crazy great person died?
