Fishers Hornpipe - A Tutorial for Irish Tenor Banjo (🤫 It's a Bluegrass Reel!)

[@aoifehorgan3617]

Thanks very much Enda!

[@JulieStarlingMusic]

Great!! Thanks so much! Excellent tips I can add. I came across this tune recently and was trying to figure out when it is played straight and when it is played as a hornpipe. Thanks for clearing that up.

[@mcgeoughseph]

I'm from Kilkerley, just 35 mins away from Carlingford. Just picked up a tenor banjo after years playing guitar. Its such a refreshing instrument and your videos are really helping to bridge the gap from guitar to banjo.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Beautiful part of the world!

[@ciaranosullivan3416]

There’s always a lovely hum of that A when tuned up. Great stuff Enda

[@amandagregg9368]

The version on the Chris Thile / Mike Marshall album is pretty astonishing and shows the extreme possibilities for the tune. Thanks for a great video, Enda!

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Astonishing is the correct term!!

[@johngardiner1630]

Consecutive...was the word you were seeking Enda......

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Hahah yes!!

[@senojekim579]

Hi, I'm a complete beginner. Is it possible to play the same music as this on the 5 string G banjo.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Similar style music is absolutely possible using Scruggs style melodic playing on 5 string

[@21ARUNDEL]

This is wonderfully produced but I cant figure out what a tenor banjo is. Explanations on line dont help. I have a banjolele strung as a uke. What are you playing ? I love the sound.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Tenor banjo is a 19 fret, 4 string banjo played with a flat pick, and for Irish music it is tuned in fifths similar to a fiddle or mandolin - GDAE

[@21ARUNDEL]

@@IrishTenorBanjo fantastic thanks that makes sense. I'm watching your vids mow on London. Discovered you last night.

[@christiandegrassi]

Usually I love your videos, but this time I have got to tell you you need to do your homework. It is not bluegrass and at the least it might be considered Old-Time style when played as a reel, but it originated in Europe and it might have its roots all the way back in Germany at the ti.e of Mozart and slowly reworked by fiddlers in the British Isles, before it made it to the Western colonies. Bluegrass started in the mid 1900s, this tune is almost 250 years old.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

You’re correct of course. I realise that I did introduce this a bluegrass reel in a rather definitive sense. Whereas I know it first and foremost as a hornpipe from this side of the pond. I was I n “KZbin” mode I guess! Trying to balance entertainment with education

[@kgeter_phd]

Please stop doing the jerky zoom-in zoom-out.