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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
- Message-ID: <n134dt@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 11:35:00
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- -=> Snake said to Sherman Dorn on 12-24-92 02:51 <=-
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- -=> Sherman Dorn after the arraignment hearing said to Joe Bethancourt <=-
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- SD> On <13 Dec 92 11:37>, Joe Bethancourt scribbled the following to
- SD> Usenet:
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- 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. Well, I guess that
- Sn> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Sn> We aren't forgetting the hammer-stroke are we? Let me tell you,
- Sn> properly executed by a bassist in his prime, wave bye-bye to your
- Sn> toupe and THEN tell me it's not a percussive explosion of sound.
- Sn> Also, there's always col legno (striking the string with the stick
- Sn> instead of the bow hair), there's spiccato which is a light 'off-the
- Sn> string' sounding bouncing of the bow on the string which makes it sound
- Sn> like you're striking the string with the hair, although properly
- Sn> executed, the hair never quite leaves contact with the string, and
- Sn> lastly, there are a few *actual* off-the-string bowing sound effects
- Sn> that are almost like plucking the string with a quick pressure and
- Sn> flick of the bow or an actual striking of the string with the bow hair.
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- Heh! Also, the "slap-bass" style, where the strings are slapped, with the
- hand striking the fingerboard in an incredibly syncopated beat......
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- ... Filk you and the horse you rode in on!
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