Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

added a li'l extra... on the suggestion of my recent friend strumn1...

Hi

I quickly recorded one of my favorite songs. Guilderoy.

I wanted to see how my focusrite worked,

I did not apply any effects, only the banjo played on 2 tracks.

And of course the guitar.

Many listening pleasure, and suggestions are always welcome, both positive and negative reaction I like to hear, so that I can improve myself.

For the Tune of the Week, 9/28/18, Pretty Polly is an old, old song with other titles and many lyrics. I listened to Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless and to Abigail Washburn with Bela Fleck's banjo, so this arrangement modulates in sawmill tuning as I imagine Willie and Polly having their depressing conversation.

I haven't played clawhammer in a while, but I decided to give this Tune of the Week (thanks to Janet B's wonderful tab) a try.

Tunaday #268. Didn't have a name for this so since today is the beginning of my 70th year, why not. A neat little tuning - g#BEBE - known as Dead Man's" E-tuning. Hope the tuning name has nothing to do with life expectancy; I'd like to hang around on this rock a bit longer.

Heres a take of a very cool tune in an odd tuning. For the totw

Me trying to improvise on Tom Dooley. Any critiques welcome.

Me practicing in improvisation on a tuning a friend taught me that I tweaked a bit.

Re-learned for the TOTW, 9/21/18. When Carolyn (the presenter for Quince Dillon's High D) introduced me to the tune a while back I was trying to do everything with 3-finger picks and without re-tuning. Now I'm back to good old clawhammer re-tuning mode and my short scale Carolina Banjo made it even easier to hit the high D at the 10th fret when tuned to double D tuning.