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Post by maninashed on Feb 15, 2022 12:56:22 GMT
When you're setting up a banjo, how do you know if the head is tensioned enough? It sort of depends on the sound you want. Less tension for plunk, more for ping 😉 for my taste, I like the head nice and tight, you can use a drum tension wrench if you want to be precise, tensioning the hooks on opposite sides one at a time, or like me, just a standard hex wrench, racking each hook nut up as tight as it goes without straining. Thanks, I'll experiment. I was a bit wary of tightening too much and tearing it.
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Post by maninashed on Feb 15, 2022 9:57:44 GMT
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Post by maninashed on Feb 12, 2022 21:29:03 GMT
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Post by maninashed on Feb 12, 2022 14:00:33 GMT
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Post by maninashed on Feb 12, 2022 3:11:14 GMT
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Post by maninashed on Feb 12, 2022 2:42:01 GMT
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Post by maninashed on Feb 11, 2022 22:44:16 GMT
When you're setting up a banjo, how do you know if the head is tensioned enough?
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Post by maninashed on Feb 11, 2022 2:08:29 GMT
Talking of the blues puts me in mind of this excellent series of videos. I can't remember when I first learned about the microtonal blues scale, it was a long time ago but ever since I've been amazed at how much material about the history of the blues and playing blues omits this crucial aspect. These videos do a great job in putting that record straight. There are 10 in the series in all, here are the first 2.
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Post by maninashed on Feb 10, 2022 9:21:30 GMT
A bit more of the Reverend, this time talking about his Truefire courses Electric Roots and the Evangelists. In electric roots he talks about and plays some fascinating examples of how guitarists like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf adapted the sound of acoustic country blues to the electric guitar for urban audiences. And in the Evangelists he talks about how the blues influenced spritual music.
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Post by maninashed on Feb 9, 2022 7:58:49 GMT
I've been holed up in Thailand for a while because of covid. One advantage of the situation is that I had time to learn to play ukukele clawhammer style. It took a while to get the right hand stroke going but when I did I got on pretty well with it. I'd love to try it out on a banjo. Getting an open back 5-string banjo in Thailand is tricky but luckily my local guitar shop in UK got a nice used Pilgrim in, I ordered it online and he's keeping it for me until I get back there, hopefully in the Spring. I got some pics off the shop's website to keep looking at untill I pick it up.
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Post by maninashed on Feb 9, 2022 5:57:25 GMT
It's surprising how much the components in an amp with the same circuit can make. The Marshall 18 watt Bluesbreaker was essentially a Bassman circuit built with British components, and the Gibson GA-5 was the same circuit as a 5F1 Champ but with different resistors.
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Post by maninashed on Feb 6, 2022 5:58:45 GMT
How much difference does using period correct guitars and amps to recreating a period sound?
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Post by maninashed on Feb 3, 2022 0:27:38 GMT
Cheers guys.I quite fancy a banjolele too. I'm saying all this being totally skint n all but you know, ya gotta dream... 5-string banjos and ukuleles are both re-entrant tuned, the outer strings are higher pitched than the inner ones. That means that you can play clawhammer style on both. It's a bit tricky to learn the basic 'bum-diddy' stroke but one you do it's great fun!
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Post by maninashed on Feb 2, 2022 13:54:32 GMT
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Post by maninashed on Jan 28, 2022 10:54:53 GMT
Wow, really good maninashed . Great singing and a great driving rhythm. Iain That's not me. It's Rainer Brunn, I thought it said on the video but it doesn't. I missed the time to edit the title as well...
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