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Janet Davis You Can Teach Yourself Banjo DVD

Learning the 5-string banjo pt 4: You can teach yourself banjo by Janet Davis

TweetIt’s been about two months since I first started practising my banjo. I mentioned in an early post how I chose what to start learning. After taking some advice from the good folk at Banjo Hangout I decided to go for Janet Davis’s You Can Teach Yourself Banjo, book and DVD. For UK-based budding pickers, [...]

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Starting to learn the banjo

Learning the 5-string banjo pt 2: Choosing what to learn

Tweet You can have a lot of fun researching, choosing and then buying your banjo. I certainly did. I also enjoyed joining the banjo fraternity/sorority at Banjo Hangout and I even joined the Banjo Player’s Union. I too have my 2011 special edition t-shirt and stickers, which I love. But none of the cosiness of [...]

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Learning the 5-string banjo pt 1: Buying

Learning the 5-string banjo pt 1: Buying

TweetI thought I would continue to chronicle my experience with the banjo in stages. So here is a bit about my experience of choosing and buying one. After a lot of research into other people’s experiences and getting the basics of what kind of banjo would suit me best I created a shopping list: 1. [...]

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Stairwell Sisters bango (credit: Vance Dubberly)

Banjos

TweetThey say you know a gentleman by his ability to play the banjo, but his choice not to. Or words to that effect. This and other banjo jokes have not deterred my long-standing interest in the instrument and its music. Recently Steve Martin produced an album that epitomises a banjo lover’s seduction by this peculiar [...]

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The Milonga

TweetIncredible. On yesterday’s (23/11/08) Strictly Come Dancing results show, professional partners Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace danced the Milonga, apparently a pre-cursor to the Argentine Tango. They danced it to Milonga de mis amores by Juan D’Arienzo, a traditional tune but it also be found on the soundtrack to the film The Tango Lesson (1997).

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Dancing the way to livening up this blog

TweetThis blog has become stale, and a little dull, even to me. Train stories and socio-political goings on are all very well – and I have a lot to say about them – but I have become somewhat bored so I am going to try and start blogging about different things. I would like to [...]

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Robert Key wins FGW tickets

TweetDuring yesterday’s Commons debate, Robert Key, MP (Cons) for Salisbury contributing the following:- Oral Answers to Questions – Wales: Train Services (4 Jul 2007) Robert Key: The fourth prize in a recent charity auction in my constituency was a pair of First Great Western first class return tickets to London. I do not think that [...]

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Long live Cheeserolling!

Long live Cheeserolling!

Tweet CRW_2945 Originally uploaded by mike warren A wonderful image of Gloucestershire cheeserolling taken by Mike Warren. During this fine annual Whitsun bank holiday tradition people from all over the world chase (roll) in pursuit of a rather large Gloucester cheeses down Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire. See more cheeserolling photos here. News stories seem more concerned [...]

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Google maps directions: swim

Google maps directions: swim

Tweet I have recently returned from the USA. While I was there I wanted to find out how many miles I had travelled. I duly went to Google Maps and found out: approximately 3,500 miles between Salisbury (home) and New Jersey (first port of call). What I didn’t expect were the precise directions: 12. Slight [...]

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My aristocratic title (var. peculiar)

My aristocratic title (var. peculiar)

Tweet My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Very Lady Tehmina the Antique of Giggleswick under Table Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title There are more important things to be blogging about. I will get onto these soon, she says with uncharacteristic certainty.

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