@thufur Hi there! I'm sorry I missed this post for so long. I'm doing well - I thought maybe now that its been a few years I might start posting some more videos...?
Hi there can you tell me if theres any good places online to get some tenor tabs for these kind of tunes your playing,,brilliant by the way fkn brilliant
hey there wee, Thanks! I'm no good at tabs, but for sheet music and learning by ear, there is a good site called "thesession" I think its a "dot org" site - they have midi's of all the tunes. :)
Gigglebaggle..if you can get there, Longford in Ireland has a banjo fest(Johnny Keenan banjo festival) every September and the town gets full of bluegrass and Irish banjo players, It's fantastic.
aah, just noticed that you live in the states. If you do a europe tour in the next few years, you'll have to plan it around that, it'd be worth it. Keep playing the music, all the best mate.
I noticed you're 18 so there's loads of time to make it round the world. I hadnt been out of europe until last year and I'm 35 next month. Made it to Australia and NYC in the last year so I've been lucky.
one of the biggest issues I found was pick thickness. I settled on jim dunlop .46mms, .38s were too flimsy and anything thicker didn't give me enough control. Keep at it, it's sounding good :)
Hey Rickupinoft, Thanks for the feedback, its much appreciated. I'm trying very hard to "loosen up" on the pick as much as I can - but alas it seems halfway into a set I'm getting white knuckles... will keep working on it!
That's not bad at all. I think you may be holding the pleck a little too hard. If you do that, it gets caught in the strings and gives you that "missed note" sound. Also, you shouldn't make too much pleck visible. Play down near the end of it, that way, it won't be getting stuck between the strings.
how you going these days bowirich? I can't wait until I am half that good ;)
thufur 9 months ago
@thufur Hi there! I'm sorry I missed this post for so long. I'm doing well - I thought maybe now that its been a few years I might start posting some more videos...?
Thank you for the very kind words - keep at it!
bowirich 1 month ago
Hi there can you tell me if theres any good places online to get some tenor tabs for these kind of tunes your playing,,brilliant by the way fkn brilliant
weepaull 2 years ago
hey there wee, Thanks! I'm no good at tabs, but for sheet music and learning by ear, there is a good site called "thesession" I think its a "dot org" site - they have midi's of all the tunes. :)
bowirich 2 years ago
well lad how ye getting on with ur banjo since
madfortrad5958 4 years ago
Not bad thanks! I'm kind of in this limbo with my right hand position... i keep flipping from an open to a closed grip...ugh!!
I hope to post new video sometime soon. :)
How are you?
bowirich 4 years ago
oh still trying to be as good as my friend banjo barney
madfortrad5958 4 years ago
Good stuff but try holding your second finger against the first to help with the upstroke.
latcheco 4 years ago
Not too shabby. You know what would be cool, if a tenor banjo player got together and played with a bluegrass banjo player.
giggleblaggle 4 years ago
Gigglebaggle..if you can get there, Longford in Ireland has a banjo fest(Johnny Keenan banjo festival) every September and the town gets full of bluegrass and Irish banjo players, It's fantastic.
cjs1973 3 years ago
I'd love to go, but I don't have the money to get there. Thanks anyway :)
giggleblaggle 3 years ago
aah, just noticed that you live in the states. If you do a europe tour in the next few years, you'll have to plan it around that, it'd be worth it. Keep playing the music, all the best mate.
cjs1973 3 years ago
Europe tour? Me? I've never even toured in the states. Maybe some day I will be able to make it though. It really sounds like a blast.
giggleblaggle 3 years ago
I noticed you're 18 so there's loads of time to make it round the world. I hadnt been out of europe until last year and I'm 35 next month. Made it to Australia and NYC in the last year so I've been lucky.
cjs1973 3 years ago
Very good.
ArtistIreland 4 years ago
Thats great playing. For a learner like me its the clearest video I've seen for picking out the left hand fretting positions.
Cheers and thanks for posting.
elvissmoo 4 years ago
very good bowirich
madfortrad5958 4 years ago
Thank you!
bowirich 4 years ago
What tuning do you use?
FranSpain 4 years ago
GDAE - I think thats the pretty standard Irish tuning
bowirich 4 years ago
one of the biggest issues I found was pick thickness. I settled on jim dunlop .46mms, .38s were too flimsy and anything thicker didn't give me enough control. Keep at it, it's sounding good :)
Keelsman 4 years ago
Hi Keelsman - yes I have tried diff picks as well - currently I've mostly settled on a .60mm dunlop nylon - but I do try the .70mm from time to time.
Thanks for the comments!
bowirich 4 years ago
Hey Rickupinoft, Thanks for the feedback, its much appreciated. I'm trying very hard to "loosen up" on the pick as much as I can - but alas it seems halfway into a set I'm getting white knuckles... will keep working on it!
Looking forward to more of your videos!
bowirich 4 years ago
That's not bad at all. I think you may be holding the pleck a little too hard. If you do that, it gets caught in the strings and gives you that "missed note" sound. Also, you shouldn't make too much pleck visible. Play down near the end of it, that way, it won't be getting stuck between the strings.
Rickupinoft 4 years ago