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Focused on southern old-timey, but lessons for us all
http://members.shaw.ca/john_tribe/jammingcommandme.html
hoffmannia2k7
Oct-07-2007, 7:08pm
these kinds of things are made to break
The one that I am not used to is this whole leg lifting thing. Even though I see it everywhere, it is kind of wierd.
Jim Broyles
Oct-08-2007, 2:52pm
You'd think if someone was going to post that list on a web site they'd at least check it for spelling.
jfbrown42
Oct-11-2007, 7:04pm
hahah!
I loved it.
B. T. Walker
Oct-11-2007, 8:06pm
The spelling could be more careful, but I thought it was funny enough to forward to the host of the jam I play in. It's the only jam I've ever really attended with regularity, and the leg thing is almost a running joke. Is it that way in other jams?
Michael H Geimer
Oct-11-2007, 8:08pm
During practice at home I still lift the leg, and often shout out "Last Time" and it really perplexed my wife until I explained that if I didn't practice those things I'd just screw up the endings when I was out in a group.
Swirling the headstock to indicate a tag is the one that get me these days. Not sure if that's done all over.
mingusb1
Oct-12-2007, 10:06am
What's "lame" about that?
If you can get through the obviously tongue-in-check language there is good stuff there.
Regarding the leg lift, or "last time", it is important however you do it. Nothing sucks more life from a tune than having half the people stop, the other half keep going, and then the whole group staggering through the subsequent last time.
Also, the better banjo players I pick with can re-tune quickly, so you don't have to go 2 hours in D. Just don't do a new key every tune.
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