Tangier Sound

We will be releasing the full collection workshops from The Daily Frail and The Folk Song of the Day on DVD fairly soon. Since everybody had so much fun with the archive Folk Song of the Day episodes, I thought it would be fun to post the index of Daily Frail workshops.

12/12/07: D scale exercise.

12/11/07: Single strung up the neck “flaky” stuff.

12/10/07: Double-thumb exercise.

11/21/07: Where, Oh Where, Are You Tonight?

11/9/07: Banjo doodles.

9/26/07: Quarters and eighths.

9/25/07: I’ll Fly Away -Traditional and Gary Davis versions.

9/24/07: Rests & phantom effects.

8/6/07: Cluck Old Hen – by request from South Korea & Scotland!

8/2/07: Finding the melody.

8/1/07: Boil ‘em Cabbage Down . . . again . . . but this time in the key of C without

7/31/07: John Hardy in the keys of G major and G minor.

7/30/07: Rollin’ & Tumblin’

7/27/07: That second string at the seventh and eighth frets thing again

7/25/07: Sawmill tuning & “The Coo-Coo Bird” with a bottleneck.

7/24/07: Up and down the neck.

7/23/07: Phantom effects & full-chord hammer-ons.

7/20/07: Drop thumb.

7/18/07: Slides.

7/17/07: Once again we’re boiling cabbage, but this time we’re creating an instant solo/break by mixing in some double-thumb.

7/16/07: Pull-off’s for Mark.

7/13/07: Hammer-on’s for Steve over at Hammering On.

7/12/07: Yet another bottleneck banjo riff.

7/11/07: A Muddy Waters bottleneck banjo lick.

7/10/07: Bawdy banjos.

7/9/07: More on frailing in 6/8 time.

7/5/07: 6/8 time.

7/4/07: Devil’s Dream – B part.

7/2/07: Devil’s Dream A-part.

6/29/07: Oh Death – not the crappy Oh Brother! version.

6/28/07: Foggy Mountain Fakedown.

6/27/07: Flop Eared Mule.

6/26/07: Old Joe Clark part 2.

6/25/07: Old Joe Clark- part one.

6/20/07: John the Revelator.

6/18/07: The ”fat bastard” lick.

6/15/07: Full-chord hammer-on exercise.

6/14/07: My favorite banjo tune in the whole wide world.

6/13/07: In The Pines.

6/12/07: Danville Girl.

6/11/07: The House of The Rising Sun.

6/8/07: More Charley Patton stuff.

6/7/07: Cripple Creek.

6/6/07: 3/4 time with the old gospel tune Farther Along.

6/5/07: Rests, phantom effects & Charley Patton – with a now infamous video clip.

6/4/07: Goin’ Down That Road Fellin’ Bad with a bluegrass twist.

6/1/07: Stretching the D7 chord for a Gypsy Girl.

5/31/07: A riff from the guitar playing of R. L. Burnside.

5/29/07: Playing in the key of C out of G tuning – and up the neck to boot.

5/28/07: key of C out of G tuning with Ragtime Annie.

5/30/07: The White House Blues.

5/25/07: Today we mess around with a bluegrass sound.

5/24/07: One Kind Favor.

5/23/07: State of Arkansas.