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20 Sep 01 - 06:05 PM (#555205) Subject: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: GUEST,BigDaddy Can anyone out there explain the term "breakdown" as it applies to picking? As in "Foggy Mountain Breakdown?" What differentiates a breakdown from other types of tunes? |
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20 Sep 01 - 07:44 PM (#555280) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: Jeri My understanding, and I could have it wrong because it's just what I've "heard," is that a breakdown is in 4/4 (a reel) and is played quite fast. I think the term "breakdown" has to do with the speed of the tune. The musicians also turns on the lead, with each improvising a bit. |
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20 Sep 01 - 08:23 PM (#555302) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: Amos Until they break down with bleeding fingers.... |
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20 Sep 01 - 10:36 PM (#555394) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: Gary T Well, while we're at it, how does a breakdown differ from a hoedown? |
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20 Sep 01 - 10:47 PM (#555406) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: GUEST Well, Gary, my understanding is that a hoedown refers to an event, like a barn dance, when you literally and/or figuratively put your hoe down for some r & r. A breakdown, I believe, refers to a particular style of tune. And thanks, Jeri. That sounds about right. |
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20 Sep 01 - 10:48 PM (#555407) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: catspaw49 BREAKDOWN: Any tune played on banjo so blindingly fast as to be unrecognizable. The tune finishes when the lugs loosen, the head pops, the neck snaps, the tailpiece knocks the player even more senseless than before, and the fifth peg richochets off of a Martin D-28 and lodges up the player's ass, as the banjo disintegrates and everyone applauds it's destruction. Spaw |
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21 Sep 01 - 06:17 AM (#555601) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: Bert LOL Spaw, now what's a hoedown? |
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21 Sep 01 - 09:45 AM (#555724) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: GUEST,BigDaddy a fallen prostitute, Bert |
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21 Sep 01 - 09:59 AM (#555745) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: IanC From English tradition, a breakdown is a set of hornpipe tunes. Probably the best known is "The Boscastle Breakdown".
Cheers! |
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21 Sep 01 - 10:38 AM (#555788) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: Mrrzy SONG CHALLENGE! Write Foggy Mental Breakdown, somebody! |
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21 Sep 01 - 11:14 AM (#555819) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: catspaw49 HOEDOWN: A dance of sorts, often held in a barn or other rustic setting (a place involving the best of rotting wood, hay, straw, dirt, and a requisite amount of manure). People gather wearing their finest string ties, poofy skirts, and checkered shirts and blouses with faux pearl buttons. A smorgasboard of food is layed out consisting of overcooked vegetable dishes and tooth rotting pies. An animal is burned beyond recognition while being slathered with a sauce so the original flavor of the meat is completely gone and now cannot be distinguished from a honey and ketchup covered guitar strap. The band cranks out some dance tunes and people stomp around the floor while someone yells out confusing directions using words unknown in any language. After each dance the band and the dancers refresh themselves with spirits often distilled deep in the woods through a Peterbilt radiator. By the end of the evening the music and dancing is frantically paced until the entire group falls into a drunken stupor and drive home in their pick-ups, endangering all those sane enough not to have attended. Spaw |
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22 Sep 01 - 05:00 AM (#556501) Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Mental Breakdown From: Cappuccino Spaw, I didn't know you'd been here and played the same West Oxfordshire country dances as I have! One slight cross-cultural translation problem, however - what's 'poofy skirts'? In British English, 'poof' means 'gay', therefore 'poofy skirts' would be .... well, it suggests a sort of barndance equivalent of the Village People. The mind boggles. - IanB |