Dock is my co-pilot.

Here's my very beginning attempt at a tricky tune. The B part rhythm is very syncopated. The C part is both melodic and rhythmic. If you listen to the Tune of the Week presenter play, Carl Baron, you can hear much better what it should sound like. He also used a different tuning than I did, though my open G is said to be what the composer used -- a Galax banjo player from a musical family who sadly passed away at age 41.

Early jazz song..Bix Beiderbecke and Ethel Waters...Plectrum banjo

Clawhammer jig

gDGde, a setting from the fiddling of John Coffey. Betsy played it in gDGbe.

sound comparison using a 1960s Vegaq Tubaphone

Sound comparison using a 1927 Granada

Sound comparison using a 1960s Vega Tubaphone