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Thread #36676   Message #508099
Posted By: BanjoRay
16-Jul-01 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Help: 6/8 time on banjo
Subject: RE: Help: 6/8 time on banjo
Ken Perlman does a superb 6/8 version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown which he calls Earl's Jig! I heard him do it at a clawhammer banjo workshop, and all the banjo players in the room fell about. The trouble with jig time using clawhammer is you can't just get away with bum tittying the chords when you're not sure of the tune, you have to work out a proper melodic sequence of notes which gives a complicated set of hand movements - very difficult to bluff. Ken Perlman always plays the full melody with embellishments, and I suspect they're all worked out well in advance. I'm useless at it.

Cheers
Ray