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- From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: Re: More sexy banjo stuff
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
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- Date: 20 Dec 92 10:55:00
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- -=> Sherman Dorn said to Joe Bethancourt on 12-17-92 09:06 <=-
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- SD> On <13 Dec 92 11:37>, Joe Bethancourt scribbled the following to
- SD> Usenet:
- JB> But take a look at it: it is strings
- JB> mounted on a drum-head....and this
- JB> should be a pretty good indicator that the banjo is a PERCUSSION
- JB> instrument as well as a STRINGED
- JB> instrument. The banjo should have a good
- JB> -strong- rhythmic beat, accenting and driving the rhythm of the song's
- JB> tune and lyrics. Pay attention to that!
-
- SD> Of course, any jazz musician or afficionado must note that drums,
- SD> guitars, basses, and pianos all are considered "rhythm" (and thus
- SD> percussion) for the purposes of jam sessions. We know a piano is
- SD> percussion. A guitar *should* be considered also a percussion
- SD> instrument, as well as basses when not bowed.
-
- Heheh! And thinking of the guitar as a +lead+ instrument in jazz kinda was a
- revolutionary concept a few years back......<grin!>....my point here is that
- in the frailing/clawhammer technique you *want* to be striking the head of
- the banjo as you play, as opposed to fingerpicking styles, which tend to many
- notes and no rhythm backing at all.
-
- Then you get people like Doug Dillard, and Tony Trishka, and Bela Fleck, who
- take that fingerstyle out to some other planet......
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