Good idea to show the basics. Then with a bit of work, one can progressively play them with oranmentations, triplets. rolls and even slight variations.
The year was 1962. My dad was a drummer in a DixieLand band. The banjo player left his old, old Vaga banjo at our house. I asked my dad if I could take a look at it. I had heard how it sounded and it was loud. I wish there had been music notation like these old Irish tunes here. I had never heard Irish reels played on banjo before. I have no idea where that old Vaga tenor ended up, but I hope it has had a good life, in good hands, as it is what it has deserved.
I picked up a 1923 Vega Style M recently. A bit crusty after sitting in a closet in an area with pretty good humidity and it has a bit of tarnish. I was going to have a 5 string neck fitted to it but just found the tenor tunes really cool so I ll go down that road a bit. I have a Gibson 5 sting and want an open back. The Tubaphone are remarkable. Cool story you posted.
I am loving this video! I am just learning banjo and am so inspired by the video and the comments :) THANK YOU to you for sharing here. I wonder if anyone has advice on improving reach. I have been practicing slowly with a metronome to try to get some accuracy down but I can't seem to make the reach from 2-5 that many of the songs I'm learning require.
Thank you! Great to hear you're inspired to learn the tenor banjo. As far as reaching from 2-5, there are two main approaches: use all four fingers for frets 2-5 (more like guitar fingering; not usually the way I play, but popular) and shift to reach high notes, or angle the hand in such a way that three fingers can reach frets 2-5 (more like mandolin or violin fingering). Keep at it, working on slow tunes and scales to get the stretches under your fingers!
Thank you for this. Really nice playing. I use this and your other videos with my bodhran - learning to accompany various tunes for a band. I wont say play because, well...bodhran ;-) Really helpful to have the BPM listed and the metronome in too. I also like the way you nod reassuringly every now and then...makes me feel i'm doing a good job. :-)
Thank you for all the tunes I play mandolin and my wife bought me a 4 string. tenor Banjo for Christmas 2022 now I have all the scores to learn you tunes Wants again thanks
I love this ,and I love playing along with my Irish flute or whistle. No sessions for me anymore bc of restrictions, so this means a lot to me ♥️thanks for making this ! 😊 I know all of them except the gravel walks , so I’m excited to learn a new tune this week . ☺️
Thanks for listening, and I hope sessions start back up in your area again soon! Gravel Walks is a tricky one on whistle and flute, at least for me, particularly the fourth part.
Slip jigs....I always have problems with the right hand technique..can you please enlighten me on the different types..I believe that reels are always done up, jigs down up down, down up down......etc ...do you have a chart that I can follow....I have just discovered your brilliant site and as a complete novice I shall find it extremely useful
@@Frakfayt Great tunes! I think I've recorded those at a bit higher speeds -- here's Splendid Isolation recorded early in Lockdown 2020: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tUFDr_rr6o8.html
I would highly recommend this world class instructional tutorial to Bodhran Players, wanting to know when to accent. Thank You Ben Hockenberry, for teaching me Bodhran, even though you never planned it so.
I appreciate it, Casper! If you use the speed controls in RU-vid to bring it up to 1.25x speed, you'll get approximately "session speed" for your bodhran practice.
