Bill Evans: "The Distance Between Two Points"

This video features Bill Evans playing one of his own compositions, "The Distance Between Two Points." Bill is playing this piece on his 1937 Gibson flathead -75, a modern day "bluegrass" banjo, in the three-finger style. To hear a live full band version of this tune, visit www.myspace.com/billevansstringsummit. Bill hopes to record this tune later in 2008.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• banjo
• bluegrass

[BillEvansBanjo]

Greetings! A tab of this tune was in the August issue of "Banjo Newsletter" magazine. Check it out! Sincerely, Bill

[BillEvansBanjo]

Hi Oscar, There is no tab available for this tune as of right now. It is available in a duet performance on my new CD "let's do something" with fiddler Megan Lynch however. Someday, I'll try and get around to publishing a tab book of a lot of my tunes - that's a big undertaking and I find that I don't have a lot of time for extra projects these days! Sincerely, Bill

[J0NJ022]

Wow! How long, I wonder, before someone makes a banjo concerto based on this kind of music (The London Symphony Orchestra with Bill Evans - wouldn't that be cool?)

[wiseguy142]

Great job BIll! What a fantastic tune. I learned to play using your book "Banjo for Dummies" on a $150 banjo that I and my roommate had to share during college. I've just upgraded to a Recording King Bill Sullivan Tribute and have you to thank for getting me going on this wonderful instrument!

[cubas33]

This is the beauty of internet. I´m in Argentina and I end up listening to this song, without the net I would have never found it. Congrats and keep it going.

[PFCBeetleBailey]

Are you really looking for this tune? It's in the BanjoNewsletter May 2009 issue...I clicked on the link and it brought me here to YouTube

[tmcw]

Fantastic composition. Sounds modern and beautiful but not show-offy or guitary

[pipernick]

I would KILL for this tab. What an outstanding peice. Excellent work Mr. Evans.

[instantpestering]

Learned it... well for the most part. I've only been playing for nearly a year, and I screwed some bits up... a few missed notes, screwed up part of the timing in part C, among other things. It's a bit of an odd tune to play... I like the banjo, like drums (which I also play) because as long as I'm hitting the hi hat at 1/8 notes, I can figure out the timing of everything else in relation to that. Your song didn't quite follow steady eighths... Hope I didn't massacre it.

[instantpestering]

It's an wonderful tune Bill! Any chance of sharing the tabs with the world so that your tune can live on in our hands as well?