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for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« on: August 28, 2007, 04:18:54 am »
i've been learning some fiddle off an awesome site.  mandolin is next.  there's lots of different instruments (harmonica, geetar, etc.) different skill levels and care is given to making sure genre-specific techniques are translated well.  listen/watch the teachers play through a song, and then watch subsequent videos where sections are broken down slowly so you can pick them up.  i'm aiming for a song a day, and the more people signing up, giving feedback, and spreading the word, the more songs i'm sure they'll post!  hooray!

musicmoose.org.  DANG TIGHT.

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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2007, 04:26:32 am »
Awesome! I love bluegrass and alternative americana (Robert Earl Keen, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, etc). Thanks for the link. Also, is that you in your avatar?
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2007, 04:45:41 am »
Hello random girl. I know banjo, harmonica, guitar, and most classical instruments. I'm currently using the university resources to learn Clawhammer style banjo, which has never been played in decades.
The best way to learn an instrument, sadly, is the scales, and then the songs. Piano, in my opinion, is the hardest to learn this way. Because it involves every damn scale.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2007, 04:55:57 am »
yes that is me.  and disclaimer: these aren't very complicated things to be learned, but it is a nice resource.  i'm only a violin player and have become mediocre over the past few years of slacking and playing in a louisville band that took up most of my time, but this will change! i will be less drunk and more practiced.

clawhammer banjo, huh?  please, do tell!!!
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2007, 05:09:39 am »
also, are you as gawd derned adorable as this guy? now that i have internet in-house i've been watching all manner of videos to get new songs and such.  so cool.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2007, 05:20:00 am »
There was a regional jamband back East that was trying to fuse zydeko and klesmer.

They called it "jewgrass". I thought that was a pretty rad concept.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2007, 06:32:51 am »
Quote from: Beatrice on August 28, 2007, 05:09:39 am
also, are you as gawd derned adorable as this guy? now that i have internet in-house i've been watching all manner of videos to get new songs and such.  so cool.

While I guess nabu is apparently the "hunk" of this board -  I do well with the womenfolk, but in a more actual rugby player, actual firefighter, broad shouldered, muscular kind of guy. My twin is a state trooper who competes in bodybuilding, but I lean more towards the economics books and whatnot.

Clawhammer appears to have disappeared from all forms of banjo, I'm trying to get any copies of actual players so that I figure out exactly  what they all did and do digital masters of the style.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2007, 12:08:16 pm »
Quote from: A-CAP on August 28, 2007, 06:32:51 am
While I guess nabu is apparently the "hunk" of this board -  I do well with the womenfolk, but in a more actual rugby player, actual firefighter, broad shouldered, muscular kind of guy. My twin is a state trooper who competes in bodybuilding, but I lean more towards the economics books and whatnot.

Clawhammer appears to have disappeared from all forms of banjo, I'm trying to get any copies of actual players so that I figure out exactly  what they all did and do digital masters of the style.

Wait a minute! A-CAP, are you also a twin? For real? Are you guys identical or fraternal?
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2007, 12:37:10 pm »
I hate bluegrass. Does that make me a bad person?
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2007, 01:01:13 pm »
Quote from: wombat on August 28, 2007, 12:37:10 pm
I hate bluegrass. Does that make me a bad person?

I'd say it makes you a normal person.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2007, 02:02:23 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 28, 2007, 05:20:00 am
There was a regional jamband back East that was trying to fuse zydeko and klesmer.

They called it "jewgrass". I thought that was a pretty rad concept.


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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2007, 02:39:43 pm »
I recently figured out that what Americans call alt-country/alternative americana all falls under what Canadains just call folk music.  I have been listenen to folk music for ages, not realizing previous converstations were about the same stuff.

I am currently writing a play about the song Oh! Susanna, and highly recommend the Be Good Tanya's version of the tune to everyone.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2007, 04:52:53 pm »
Bluegrass is one of those things that... I like, but never listen to.

The Banjo is probably the coolest instrument ever.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2007, 05:39:33 pm »
Quote from: A-CAP on August 28, 2007, 06:32:51 am
While I guess nabu is apparently the "hunk" of this board -  I do well with the womenfolk, but in a more actual rugby player, actual firefighter, broad shouldered, muscular kind of guy. My twin is a state trooper who competes in bodybuilding, but I lean more towards the economics books and whatnot.

Watch those quotation marks, my "friend". Anyway, I like to think of inev as the cutest (male) TOUAMBie.

I've never been the hunk of anywhere. Maybe my peer groups are just too large.
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Re: for all those bluegrass-ly inclined
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2007, 06:57:46 pm »
Quote from: linnea on August 28, 2007, 12:08:16 pm
Wait a minute! A-CAP, are you also a twin? For real? Are you guys identical or fraternal?

For reasons Id rather not think about, my cousin looks exactly like me.
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