Conference : Forum Use, News, Issues, and General Questions : You can talk about (almost) anything on the forums, but this is where you talk about anything on the forums on the forums. http://www.murphymethod.com/forum Hi Steve There is a new guy in town from Texas looking for a jam session see Banjo Hangout - Jamming in Tokyo/Yokohama area [i]* Last updated by: TamZeb on 6/20/2012 @ 3:10 AM *[/i] http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=08BA584A-3048-8890-C8DA584FFA6A5787&r=1 2012-06-20T03:10:26-04:00 Jamming in Tokyo/Yokohama area He will be missed by many. But the left this world a better place. Now he's with his wife and son. http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=5BC8C248-3048-8890-C8FBDEF32A3A66C2&r=2 2012-03-29T08:26:20-04:00 Earl Scruggs, 88 Here's the link to the Tennessean article: http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/03/28/earl-scruggs-country-music-hall-of-famer-dies-at-age-88/ http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=5BC8C248-3048-8890-C8FBDEF32A3A66C2&r=3 2012-03-28T19:29:18-04:00 Earl Scruggs, 88 I just heard the news report on online radio: RIP Earl Scruggs http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=5BC8C248-3048-8890-C8FBDEF32A3A66C2&r=4 2012-03-28T19:09:05-04:00 Earl Scruggs, 88 To: Casey, the entire Henry family & all MM students, May the true meaning of Christmas light your way this time of year. MERRY CHRISTMAS - Steve 12/24/11, 1437 JST http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=6E939592-3048-8890-C8B9E6F1ED71BDB4&r=5 2011-12-24T00:38:12-04:00 Christmas 2011 Hey folks, over on the blog side of town a fellow by the name of Mark has some words or wisdom for us. http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=684E1F38-3048-8890-C827722D95FF7CE4&r=6 2011-12-22T19:24:37-04:00 TMM BLOG I alway enjoy reading "ON THE ROAD" in BNL and today I received the Dec. 2011 issue. If you're a subscriber too then you have to read Casey's article on page 12 and see if you can solve that buzzing mystery she writes about. Also, guess who's been named after a barber shop owner. Some of you insiders knew, but the many, many of us had no clue. "Brill"-i-ant way to tell us. - Steve, 12/11/17, 19:51 JST http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=4BA5B796-3048-8890-C89E6803E650D765&r=7 2011-12-17T05:51:18-04:00 Buzzing & Naming It could be possible that Murhphy is encouraging Casey to go in the antique business. I'm so sure of that though, so, you've got to read "Blogging Before Supper" over on the blog side of MM Town. By the way, when did TamZeb disappear off the planet? Come back Tam! Steve, 12/17/11, 0825 JST http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=39986B85-3048-8890-C81DF79BFD9E63B5&r=8 2011-12-16T18:25:12-04:00 Winchester, VA Did you know that when playing in the key of G the A chord is almost always followed by the D chord, ah, 99 and 44/100% (from the old radio soap commercial) of the time I'm told. Get on over to the blog side of MM town where Murphy "expostulates" this. You got to read Jingle Bells. It's a good one! - Steve, 12/16/11 19:25 JST http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=39986B85-3048-8890-C81DF79BFD9E63B5&r=9 2011-12-16T05:25:30-04:00 Winchester, VA Well, we're not going to hear from Casey for a while. If you want to know why I know then skedaddle on over to the blog and read "What We're Doing Now." If you like hamburger, there just might be the recipe there for you. You got to check it out. - Steve, 12/15/11 09:48 JST http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=39986B85-3048-8890-C81DF79BFD9E63B5&r=10 2011-12-14T19:48:50-04:00 Winchester, VA Hey Casey, I read about your return to Winchester. Good move, and a smart one too, in my opinion. Good luck in settling down in your new home and setting up your PC/video equipment, etc. Still lots to do, right? Merry Christmas, Casey, and Happy Holidays! - Steve (12/14/11,07:43 JST) http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=39986B85-3048-8890-C81DF79BFD9E63B5&r=11 2011-12-13T17:43:37-04:00 Winchester, VA Still having problems with this Casey. http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=50559F92-3048-8890-C89147F4F99CE26E&r=12 2011-11-12T04:26:02-04:00 Time Out Hmmm...I'll ask him to look into it. http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=50559F92-3048-8890-C89147F4F99CE26E&r=13 2011-10-31T07:40:38-04:00 Time Out Yes, this is true. I had to re-enter my workshop topic several times and then, on the 3rd attempt, wound up cutting out lots of what I wanted to say. Actually, I had to type it out in my word processor then look at it to enter it in the forum while typing as fast as I could. Hence the typos, etc. But...but we have a forum! Oh, Tam, great message to Milli. TMM has a lesson plan! Everybody should read it. http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=50559F92-3048-8890-C89147F4F99CE26E&r=14 2011-10-30T03:57:14-04:00 Time Out Hi Casey Just a quick Heads up to let you know the forum is still timing out when replying to a post... I have lost several long replies and had to retype them... Perhaps your Web Manager could take another look at this and maybe extend the time even more. http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=50559F92-3048-8890-C89147F4F99CE26E&r=15 2011-10-29T11:39:08-04:00 Time Out Hi Steve Next time you go take your MM DVDS with you. Maybe help out some newbies starting out http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=F58D670C-3048-8890-C8F59995D1F944E6&r=16 2011-10-12T13:49:16-04:00 Banjo Workshop in Japan Quite the range of levels there in the same workshop! But, better a diverse class than none at all. Too bad the instructor was so late. Better luck next month? Casey http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=F58D670C-3048-8890-C8F59995D1F944E6&r=17 2011-10-11T22:57:59-04:00 Banjo Workshop in Japan I wnent to my second banjo/dobro workshop on Sunday. It started at 3 pm and lasted until 6 pm. There's a 3-hr. guitar/vocal workshop before it. I got there 15 min. early and waited outside. Others came along and the workshop exchange went at exactly three. The banjo instructor didn't show up so the guitar instructor stayed and started a round-table jam session. He tried some claw hammer banjo but the didn't go well, so he went back to his guitar and the five of us (one woman & 4 men) to our 3-finger banjo picking. The one dobro player had gone to a corner by himself. Some of the tunre we jammed, to pass time, were Blue Ridge Cabin Home (Key of A!), Earl's Breakdown (for the 2 advanced pickers), Cripple Creek (my call), Your Love Is Like a Flower, Old Joe Clark, Foggy Mt. Top and others. Our instructor came in almost an hour late and started with the dobro player. Two round tables were pushed together and I sait at the center back of the second table. An elderly man sat to my left and he was quiet and still throughout the jam. He had on black plastic finger picks pushed way back under his finger pads. I knew he was just starting out. His banjo had a clear plastic head and rusty strings. The banjo though it looked recently refurbished, had its bridge almost in the center of the head. I mentioned how the bridge should be set from the 12th fret. The elderly man on my right participated in the jam but he had a guitar strap on his banjo and 'round his neck & left shoulder. The strap was tied by a string to a single bracket under the heel, and the tail piece adjustment screw was, in some fashion, put through the button hole at the other end of the strap. I explained the necessity of a banjo strap for a banjo. When the banjo instuctor eventually got around to the back he noticed the bridge on the one banjo and the strap on the other, and he spoke with authority. He then attempted to move the bridge closer to the tail piece with a tuning fork. Then the 5th string snapped, the bridge collapsed and the tuning fork slide. The instructor found a spare, changed the string and adjusted the bridge. Two others sat in front of the two on my right & left and they're advanced pickers. The young woman, on the left, is extremely good and fast, and the elderly man who sat across from her is experience and good. He had a Tony Triscka book on the table in front of him. The man on my right brought an Earl Scruggs 5-String Banjo book with him. I brought the papers given to me last month. Am I going back next month? You betcha! http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=F58D670C-3048-8890-C8F59995D1F944E6&r=18 2011-10-11T20:34:37-04:00 Banjo Workshop in Japan In the "Specific DVD" segment of this forum a comment was made that went, "Now, if I can only make some real progress with my speed I would be the happiest camper in the world." Well, speed does become important after you start going out and playing with others. Too important, that is! It seems that speed is what it's all about out there. From my own experience "Improvising: The First Stage" is a good vehicle, so to speak, to use to build up speed. The DVD is easy enough and the "play along with the guitar" tracks start out at moderate speed and build up to rather fast. All the "play along sections" of TMM DVDs work for building up speed. You just have to challenge those faster tracks and the ones on the custome lessons too. Just don't give up. Try the custom lesson "Jesse James." That's one of those you've-got-to-know tunes. Oh, one more, my last word in my latest "Rawhide" reply was "great!" It should have been "greatest!" http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=DD24F638-3048-8890-C82C4BF9EC761F89&r=19 2011-10-07T02:49:39-04:00 Speed bruce showed me what to do.metronome repitition 100 times at least for us slow people.really slow 50 to 70 bpm or less. you will see or hear your mistakes.do rolls till you can tap your toe at same time with metronome.am working on that. how many toes do you tap at 1 time? can you get an obama loan for banjo camp. will trde health insurance for 1 banjo camp. http://www.murphymethod.com/forummessages.cfm?threadid=AD417C8E-3048-8890-C875D073AD527329&r=20 2011-09-27T19:39:02-04:00 getting better