How (The Heck) To Play Slides On Tenor Banjo

[@DannyBurkeBanjo]

Great breakdown of the 12/8 timing etc. Super interesting!

[@marcsmith7037]

Tune names...very frustrating indeed. Slides on the banjo (in my opinion) tend to be where I'm thinking "supporting instrument" not "lead instrument". Our fiddler likes to play slides and I just lay back, accentuate the rhythm, and try to make him sound better. We play "O'Keeffe's" (but one of the other ones). I was taught that 12/8 was just 4/4 with triplets. Accent on beat 1 and 7 (7 being slightly less accented than 1). I also note that fiddlers tend to ornament slides with snaps (grace notes) rather than rolls, mordents or triplets. Thank you for another interesting video!

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

I agree 100%!

[@MotiviqueStudio]

Looking forward tot he Patsy Geary video - funnilly(?), the video I found for that song was Fergal Scahill's tune a day. Great, but I'm a picker not a bower.

[@aarphi1984]

Slides sound more stuffy and (European? Aristocratic?) to my novice ear. Almost like jigs are for fun parties/pubs and slides are for balls, no?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

😂 fair observation!!

[@aarphi1984]

@@IrishTenorBanjo haha well thank you for making the video regardless!

[@peggybogardus9340]

Ever-entertaining and informative. :*)