-25.
I've never yet played diminished chords, so I gained some points there. But now, in my old age, I've found that I do prefer to plug in. (making up for lost time, spent decades playing strictly acoustic but meh got tired of it, I like electric now.)
But the survey's banjo question confused me. Before I was able to answer it, I had to go look up the word "oxymoron". (Seriously!) Mighty big word for such a survey. Where I'm from, people didn't use words like that; I'd never heard of it until reading it on the internet. But then again, I'd never heard of anyone make fun of banjo players either, until years after I got internet. Hmm. Maybe I should get extra points for that, eh?
So I like Jazz, big deal. I should get extra points for two pets one named Lester and the other named Earl.
Score: 30
'95 Gibson F-5V
2017 Collings MF5
2017 Martin OOO-28
2002 Martin D-18GE
Believe it or not, I do sometimes play a few 5 string BG type tunes in my bastardized Scruggs/Reno mishmash, and some occasional frailing although the banjo is set up for Scruggs style and not oldtime.
Just to be fair, I play 4 string tuned Irish-Italian style, GDAE, a lot more often, and have tuned my 4 string to CGDA and DGBE at times.
Never did learn to use plectrum tuning on a 4 string, CGBD, although I do use that tuning on 5 string.
So adjusting for that "banjo" question I could be a -65.
-5
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
-45
I was taught that if you pull out a diminished chord, you must be prepared to use it.
While I HAVE heard banjos make "music", I have also been known to make music electrically.
-> Shouldn't there be a special dispensation for Trampled by Turtles if one also owns recordings by Tuttles?
-70. (And proud.)
+20
" Practice every time you get a chance." - Bill Monroe
Earl, Earl com’on, get in the truck
" Practice every time you get a chance." - Bill Monroe
-40. Oh well.
Purr more, hiss less. Barn Cat Mandolins Photo Album
-10 was my score. Now, if I take the test twice and add the scores...no, it just gets more minusser.. bugger bugger bugger
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I got a 10.
Regardless, I have risen up every day for 56+ years completely secure in my hillbilly credentials and identity.
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It's only political if you choose to plant your flag there. As an example, when I listen to a song like Balsam Range's "From a Georgia Battlefield", I'm not moved by the "politics" of it. I'm moved by that fact that is a beautiful story, well told, that is absolutely connected to the good and honorable parts of my southern heritage. Why, oh why, do we now live in a country where EVERYTHING (including this silly post), must be politicized.
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-70 and love Bluegrass, among other genres of music. Oops - do I get more minus points for using the word "genres"?
Good grief anything can be overly politicized if sensitivity is taken to illogical extremes. I think the intent of this was jovially harmless enough. I also am a life-long southerner and still live in the thick of whatever is good and bad about it and I can tell you that a stereotypical "red-neck bluegrass" musician is rarer than hens teeth if in existence at all. Of the BG pickers around here, there are more doctors, lawyers, university professors behind those instruments than there are backwoods bruisers. The post didnt say you had to be a redneck to like BG. Its just speculating what might suite the stereotype as an exercise in comedic fun.
Now try the other extreme: You know you might be a yuppie-hipster Bluegrasser when...
-you've spent as much on your beard grooming products this year as you have on your mandolins
-your tatoos are registered in the Amsterdam Museum of Epethelial Art
-Your gig provides free PBR but instead you pay out of pocket for the oyster periwinkle craft beer
- Your string winder has MOP inlay
No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.
Minus 25...but I do love BG!
2007 Sumi F-5 Deluxe
1991 Flatiron Performer A
Martin D-35
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"I play BG so that's what I can talk intelligently about." A line I loved and pirated from Mandoplumb
-30
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"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I got a 5, and I just got back from a gig, where we played Bluegrass!
2007 Weber Custom Elite "old wood"
2017 Ratliff R5 Custom #1148
Several nice old Fiddles
2007 Martin 000-15S 12 fret Auditorium-slot head
Deering Classic Open Back
Too many microphones
BridgerCreekBoys.com
Minus 60!
Ray Dearstone #009 D1A (1999)
Skip Kelley #063 Offset Two Point (2017)
Arches #9 A Style (2005)
Bourgeois M5A (2022)
Hohner and Seydel Harmonicas (various keys)
"Heck, Jimmy Martin don't even believe in Santy Claus!"
+10 Three dang Telecasters in the closet tattled on me
A couple of mandolins
A couple guitars
An Upright Bass
Some banjos
Wax Paper over a comb
A Loar era Didjeridoo
"I Never Wanted To Be A Barber. I Always Wanted To Be A Lumberjack !"
-15. I love bluegrass, but also love be pretty much anything else if it's well done. Own a Mandobird. Own and wear cowboy hats, but come from a horseman's tradition where plaid cowboy hats ain't no part of nothin'...
Chuck
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