Old fiddle tune on a new wood top banjo. I'm doing it in G since I didn't have a capo for A. A friend used his CNC router for the inlays in the neck and top ...

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Comment by Nancy kat on January 4, 2018 at 2:59am

Sorry Jim it sucks to lose a friend...rest assured she is surrounded by all the loving cats and nature she so loved...I would have liked her to! Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year to you!....Meow^..^

Comment by Jim Morris on January 3, 2018 at 12:11pm

Oh yeah Nancy, she often wove these cattails from fresh picked lavender - those were some of my favorites!

Comment by Jim Morris on January 3, 2018 at 12:09pm

Thanks Nancy, so good to hear from you. Happy Solstice and New Year to you! Thanks for basket cat. One of my dear friends passed away in 2017 and she was not only a crazy Cat Lady but also an award winning basket maker. She also loved to weave cattails

Comment by Jim Morris on January 3, 2018 at 11:57am

Yeah Gary, he did a great job on Little Wing! Tuning by ear can be painful sometimes - I usually have to switch ears from time to time.

Comment by Nancy kat on January 3, 2018 at 5:31am

Love the deer so cool! An excellent tune and banjo Jim!!! Meowwwww^..^

Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on January 2, 2018 at 2:35pm

Jim - I never thought I'd reach my current level - so I do enjoy every day!  There's definitely something cool and universal about playing music.  My younger son has serious chops (see his "Little Wing" video here) - and I used to questioning things like "how do you know where your fingers are?"  Over Thanksgiving, I was tuning up and he said "Tuning by ear?!?!   How do you do that?!?!?"   Of course, he was kidding, knowing that I hadn't been!

Comment by Jim Morris on January 2, 2018 at 2:05pm

Thanks for the kind words Gary. The key is to enjoy oneself no matter what level you may have attained. That being said, I have a couple of jam buddies that I'm extremely jealous of their ability. Here's one young friend who's only in his 20's, makes beautiful banjos and plays circles around me. I really hate him, lol

https://youtu.be/k_lhBHBd5L8

Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on January 2, 2018 at 1:45pm

Another stellar video from Jim "The Master" Morris!  You'd be an inspiration if I thought I could come anyway near this level of play!   NICE!

Comment by Jim Morris on January 1, 2018 at 11:38am

Thanks much Shane.

Comment by Jim Morris on January 1, 2018 at 11:37am

Thank you smilingdog. This is a newly renovated old house in town that I'm sharing space with a 3 other folks who teach fiddle, voice and piano. I've got 10 students right now and that's about all I can manage. You can see the roll of carpet padding behind me and I think carpet will help tame the acoustics a bit.

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