What shall we do with the ... Kiel Retreat?
Or, better question - as the retreat will surely happen (hope so) - : what shall we do AT the retreat?
Eat and drink (am curious to experience "Frailer´s Cuisine"),
sing
and play.
And have one or two workshops?
But which?
After I managed my first bump-ditties (which took me some time) I always loved the drop-thumbs which guys like Patrick or others throw in every now and then. Apparently there are players who use drop-thumbing almost regularly throughout the whole tune and others who do never or at rare spots. To do it correctly and keeping the rhythm really is a challenge for me. Not before long I began to use it every now and then. It spices up a tune. But I´m far from doing it the right way. So I thought of the words: What is the most promising way of learning? Teaching to a student!
What if we have a little workshop on "Drop-Thumbing"? It´s like the blind teaching the blinds - but in the end we will see the light!
Another issue came up at the UK Folkies forum. Some alexx there wrote: It would be great to learn some UK/international originated more 'popular' songs.
We could talk about and show and play "new" songs with the bump-ditty (more or less). Just got mail from a friend in Hannover who did Neil Young´s "Mellow My Mind" with his banjer in a very apealing way. Hopefully the guy will come to Kiel too - he is working on this.
Anybody else having ideas about the retreat? Someday I will post a list of songs which usually are being played at those events. We will be able to share lyrics and chords via email. Someday I will have time for that ...
COME ON GUYS, don´t hesitate to apply for the retreat!
Eat and drink (am curious to experience "Frailer´s Cuisine"),
sing
and play.
And have one or two workshops?
But which?
After I managed my first bump-ditties (which took me some time) I always loved the drop-thumbs which guys like Patrick or others throw in every now and then. Apparently there are players who use drop-thumbing almost regularly throughout the whole tune and others who do never or at rare spots. To do it correctly and keeping the rhythm really is a challenge for me. Not before long I began to use it every now and then. It spices up a tune. But I´m far from doing it the right way. So I thought of the words: What is the most promising way of learning? Teaching to a student!
What if we have a little workshop on "Drop-Thumbing"? It´s like the blind teaching the blinds - but in the end we will see the light!
Another issue came up at the UK Folkies forum. Some alexx there wrote: It would be great to learn some UK/international originated more 'popular' songs.
We could talk about and show and play "new" songs with the bump-ditty (more or less). Just got mail from a friend in Hannover who did Neil Young´s "Mellow My Mind" with his banjer in a very apealing way. Hopefully the guy will come to Kiel too - he is working on this.
Anybody else having ideas about the retreat? Someday I will post a list of songs which usually are being played at those events. We will be able to share lyrics and chords via email. Someday I will have time for that ...
COME ON GUYS, don´t hesitate to apply for the retreat!
Kommentare
I`ve taken this approach concerning Non conventional pop songs on the Banjo,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNc5bMkcYIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdy_5eT4y3Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9u9zqcLmcc&feature=related
There`s others on my Youtube page, such as Girlfriend in a coma, and Creep.
Keep frailing,
Mark.
I also like to learn a few "Non conventional pop songs on the Banjo" as MC Clawhammer (congratulation for the name) suggests. I would like to learn some songs from The Fall, for example "Room To Live" or other catchy and rhythmic stuff from the highly gifted Mark E. Smith. I always thought The Fall's music fits perfectly to the banjo, but maybe I'm wrong ...
Mh, popular you say? Never heard The Fall before :-(
But if there are more than one who know The Fall, we will definetly give ´em a frail.
:-)))
Wolfgang
:-)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TjJSOYugXY&feature=related)