The Music of Ancient Greece - ON A BANJO!?!

[MushroomedAnymore]

This is one of your best videos actually! Congratulations, well done! All you needed was a supporting piper and drums after the initial one or two minutes of the exposition. Excellent!

[AIKevorkian]

You are so cool! The Dorian Mode was originally the white notes on the piano from E to E??? I've never heard that before! I remember way back in high school I read that the Greek's musical scales went downward instead of "do re mi..." I love playing the E scale with no sharps! And that's the sound you are making. Right ON! -AIK

[69BieberHole69]

sounds like a bazoukia

[sk8phantom]

u should arrange it properly first before post it. but im amaze with it !

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[mistersleeepy]

You just do a big mix of all different kinds of banjo styles. You do the pick, then an up stroke way, then the frailing. It's really cool. Although it would sound richer player on the scoop.

[MrFpenteado]

I like this but how was this retrieved? I have read that Ancient Greek music is not available to us because there is no surviving musical notation from that time. I am wrong?

[Klezfiddle1]

@MrFpenteado There at least 60 surviving fragments of ancient Greek music, on either papyrus or inscribed in marble. The ancient Greeks notated music by alpabetical symbols representing the pitch written above the text of the songs - the ryhthm can easily be inferred from the syllables of the text. There is a book by ML West listing all the fragments so far discovered. "Song of Seikilos" was found on a 1st century Burial Stele - the entire melody survived!

[jethomas5]

@Klezfiddle1 People got the names of the scales wrong by assuming they went up instead of down. Is it possible that they also have the notation backward the same way?

If you were to play the music with the assumption that the scales were upside down, and you got something that sounded better, that would imply a possibility it might have been intended that way.

[drigydrandrindran]

ancient greek music

[GEORANICK]

Why do you say that's music from ancient greece when you perform it on a banjo??????Thats reeeeeeeeaaaaaaalyyyyyyyy annoying!

[GR8TM4N]

... It sounds to me like a slower-tune "Rebetiko" style song. Maybe the roots of Greek Rebetiko folk music is in ancient Greek tunes like this...

[nykteridas]

@GR8TM4N Bouzouki,baglamas and tzoyras may have turkish names BUT their roots come from the ancient greek baglama style 3 stringed instrument called Panduris (Πανδουρὶς)or trichordon(τρίχορδον)

[ArielMig]

Funniest vid of all! I prefer the lyres! Your expression at the beginning and the end of the video is priceless!

[MedievalFairy]

well i dont think the sound of ancient greek lyre is like banjo... if you want to find something that looks-and sounds- a little more alike, try pandouris!

[budgiebudgielover]

I must say the Muse must love your take on this piece, banjo and all. I think it sounds really ... trippy somehow, not that I'm a druggy or anything.

[CaptainZeep]

Not the first time! I did the same thing five years ago. You just copied me.

[Klezfiddle1]

Cooool! Do you have any video links to this?? I would love to see your own oldtimey Kentucky clawhammer slant on the music of Ancient Greece!!! ;o)

[skabudaw1]

nice

[finchisgod]

The face at the end is priceless, but yea awesome job

[nairigrigorian]

¡Enhorabuena! Me gusta...Tu vida es la música

[vikingjarl]

Is that in standard tuning? Great job, by the way!

[Klezfiddle1]

The tuning is known by clawhammer banjoist buffs as "modal G tuning"; 5th string to first string:G,D,G,C,D. It is exactly the same tuning found in oldtime Appalachian CLASSICS, such as "Old Cluck Hen"...YEEE HA!

[harpruby]

:) ...nice. I still like the experimental bits and unexpected tempo of the other, but yes, this is certainly more melodic. Hey, it's all good!

[rakkav]

Ah, (טוב מאד)! The melodic line stands out much better in the beginning than in your last attempt...making the moonshine-soaked improvisations more interesting!

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