Pictures From Virginia
March 30, 2009
Chris Via just sent us some more pictures of his shop where he builds those wonderful banjos. He also sen some pictures from the last Giles County Barn Dance and gave us a look at a cool new model from Old Via Banjos (like all of the craftsmen involved with Somerset County Banjos, Chris also has his own line of wonderful instruments) called the Boucher Piedmont.
Birthday Cheese!
March 30, 2009
There was a package waiting for me at the Post Office today with a note from Tyler in Washington.
To: Patrick!
Happy Birthday!
Thanks for all of the lessons! I know you like horror movies so I thought I’d send you the cheesiest one I’ve ever seen. It’s really, really bad.
Enjoy!
I opened up the box and found myself holding a DVD copy of Manos: The Hands of Fate.
It’s awful! I love it!
Kiel Retreat Update
March 30, 2009
Wolfgang has posted some more details on the Kiel Folk Musicians Retreat being held in Kiel, Germany September 18th to 20th 2009.
http://www.kolicom.de/Wolfgang/home.html
I can’t wait!
The Daily Frail 3/30/09
March 30, 2009
Over the next couple of days we are going to be moving the three major and minor chord forms up and down the fretboard.
We will use chord diagrams to illustrate the chord forms. The diagrams show the first four strings of your banjo neck and the first four frets. The strings are laid out 4-3-2-1, left to right, with 1 being your first string. Each string will be numbered to tell you what fret to play.
0 tells you to play an open string.
1 tells you to play a string at the first fret.
Minor Chord Form 1:
Cm: 1-0-1-1
C#m/Dbm: 2-1-2-2
Dm: 3-2-3-3
D#m/Ebm: 4-3-4-4
Em: 5-4-5-5
Fm: 6-5-6-6
F#m/Gbm: 7-6-7-7
Gm:8-7-8-8
G#m/Abm: 9-8-9-9
Am: 10-9-10-10
A#m/Bbm: 11-10-11-11
Bm: 12-11-12-12
Cm: 13-12-13-13
Fingering tips:
Fingering for Cm: i-x-m-m
Fingering for C#m: m-i-r-r
What I want you to do is strum each chord and say its name.
See you all tomorrow. Goodbye and God bless!
-Patrick
