Kid playing a banjo

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rombsix

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Kid playing a banjo

I like how he changes the tuning as part of the piece. Do all banjo players do this?

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ralexander

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From: Halifax, Nova Scotia

RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

wheeeeee doggies those boys can play! I have seen banjo players do that lots, and I've seen it to a lesser extent in steel string fingerstyle.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 19 2011 19:45:41

rodrigovalt

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

Wow thats awesome!

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Elie

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

woohaaa this is so cool

I dont know about tuning
but I know that the only missing elements are some gunfire sounds and some hen clucking and maybe someone shouting " yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa howdy howdy"

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Mark2

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

Wow! Loved that. How can you not? Those kids be jammin!

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Gimar Yestra

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

these kids have everything I ever wanted, real musical talent and a millenium falcon lol

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 20 2011 0:05:33

Ruphus

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

Deep down there in the guts of the USA´s southern west it seems not too uncommon for Joe average to sit on the porch in his rocking chair and play some blazing stuff just as selfevidently like scratching one´s back.

I dig that kind of stuff since the age of maybe ~ 6 years when those old B&W western movies would be broadcasted in Germany.
After the "good guy"-cowboys would have killed my indian brethrens they would sit around the camp fire and play yet so appealingly.
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I wonder whether the banjo in the kids hands compares to the one I have.
Mine must weigh somewhere between 15 and 20 kg.

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 20 2011 13:53:46

MarTay6

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

Bummer... seems like the video's been removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement claim.....
However- that being said- it seems to me that this kind of mountain music- that is picked up by kids on the front porch of their homes down in the holler's of Appalachia- is very similar to what happens in Flamenco.... you have it being passed down by fathers, uncles and grandfathers to their children at an early age- and this is why you see some teenage and other young people that are absolute killer players, because when they are exposed to it as children- and start in their early years, they learn SO quickly, and take in so much.
Wes

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Patrick

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

They are even better on Letterman's show.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 20 2011 21:47:30

GuitarVlog

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

quote:

ORIGINAL: rombsix
I like how he changes the tuning as part of the piece. Do all banjo players do this?

For this particular piece (Flint Hill Special by Earl Scruggs), the answer is yes.

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GuitarVlog

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to MarTay6)

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ORIGINAL: MarTay6

Bummer... seems like the video's been removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement claim.....

You can still find it under the kids' YouTube channel.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 21 2011 0:12:01

MarTay6

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

Yes, I went back today and found them by simply searching directly on YouTube.
The trick to this tuning changing ability lies in the tuners optionally installed on banjos. They're called Scruggs/Keith (Invented for Scruggs by a machinist named Keith) tuners, and allow you to de-tune that string to a precise pitch and then re-tune to the correct pitch. You tune the note in one position, turn the tuner and adjust the pitch of that 2nd note with a setscrew. Now you can go from one adjacent note to the other and back very precisely. I've seen acoustic guitar players do this with Keith tuners installed on their guitars as well.
Wes

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 21 2011 17:17:41

vuduchyld

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to rombsix)

Yep...that's how we do in Kansas.

Love me some good ol' fashioned flatpicking guitar, too.

Come check out the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield in September. If you like music of any acoustic variety, you'd LOVE it. I'll meet you there and we can play some bulerias and the yayhoos will love it...guaranteed!

Join me, also, and we'll play Sixteen Tons, Eight More Miles to Louisville, maybe a little Johnny Cash...it's a crazy party all night long (for about a week) in Pecan Grove! Best week of the year.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 22 2011 2:29:22

Richard Jernigan

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RE: Kid playing a banjo (in reply to GuitarVlog)

One of the best things I ever saw on TV was an Austin City Limits show with Bela Fleck, today's banjo super-virtuoso. He had Earl Scruggs on as guest. Bela was dressed modern-casual with fairly long hair. Earl had put on a little weight from his younger days. Earl wore a suit that looked like it was stiff as a board, had a white sidewall haircut and wore a white Open Road Stetson hat that was precisely aligned with the horizon.

Bela would solo with some incredibly complicated lick, then step back from the mic. Earl would step up, completely expressionless, and with consummate econonmy of motion, cut Bela--he would outplay Bela's latest fantastic lick.

While Earl was showing him how it was done, Bela grinned like a madman, then stepped up to the mic to outdo Earl. When it was his turn, Earl would step up, never show any effort or emotion and outdo Bela.

It went on until the crowd was in an absolute frenzy. So was I, just watching it on TV.

RNJ

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 2 2011 19:11:09