How to Play the The Mason's Apron on Irish Tenor Banjo

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

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[@TimCussen]

Around the house mind the dresser

[@TimCussen]

Tim cussen xx enda

[@TimCussen]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@conceptSde]

I struggled with this one 40 years ago. Tried to figure out Davey Arthur’s version, but no chance. Then discarded the banjo and turned into Rock, Funk, Soul and other genres for decades playing bass, guitars and singing. Now I am back into folk music in my elder age. Got me a banjo again and really appreciate this lesson. Thank you, going to Patreon right away…

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

I wish I had tried rock guitar. Maybe it's not too late!!

[@petelees6142]

im having a blast working through this fab tutorial with an antique tenor banjo picked up on ebay years ago and only recently restrung left handed so that at last I can get to feel how it is for a right handed person to play this stuff - I know the tune from playing hammer dulcimer in sessions years ago but now with Enda and a left handed banjo it's finally coming to life - I also have a pheasant cock who has been sitting on my deck listening and whooping at odd moments - many thanks for excellent tutoring!!!

[@Rustygulley-r3r]

Your videos are really good. Thank you for making them. Years ago I was at a ceilidh where a Highland piper ( I play Highland pipes but it wasn’t me) played this tune with all sorts of variations, some made up on the spot I think, going on for at least five minutes. When he finished, covered in sweat, the crowd went wild. An old Gaelic speaking Highland lady who was sitting next to said, thank God that’s over.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

😂😂😂😂

[@eugeneross6624]

This is quite the tune, and you teach it so well! Back home we always played just 2 parts in our session, but when I moved to Boston there were suddenly five or more parts! They pretty much line up with the first five you taught, although I've seen all manner of strange and exciting things happen with this tune.

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

It’s definitely a confusing one when it pops up in a session!

[@Music1111-v7e]

Great video 👍👍

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Thank you 👍

[@troymillar1333]

This is brilliant, iv been on the hunt for a breakdown of the higher part of the masons apron for months, only play parts 1 to 4 twice in a session as you explained.

[@ben75067]

Thank you Enda! Brilliant tutorial

[@amaguri_art2]

Wow! It's wonderful! It helps me to learn about the legend of Irish Tenor Banjo, too!🤩💚💚💚

[@sojnab1]

Mighty,a bould auld tune for any players set-list.☘The Stocktons Wing piece is really catchy

[@edwardocarroll7097]

Very enjoyable I'm at part 3 I think I'll get all the way but it's just fantastic

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Thank you!

[@JimboSRP]

I really like the 2 part version. I never knew there were 7 parts, this is going to be interesting! Great start to the new year, thanks Enda! PS - I know "fret something or other" quite well. :D

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

Excellent. Actually seems achievable now. What is the middle banjo on the wall behind you?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

That’s a Clareen Elite, #9 from 2000!

[@andymasterson6249]

Pure genius 👏

[@johntait491]

An excellent, informative and enjoyable demonstration of one of THE Irish classics (although originally from Scotland..!!). Thank you. 👍

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@gerardbissett]

Great lesson! Now to get the more detailed info on your Patreon! 😁🤞🙏🎶😁

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Tomorrow I hope!!

[@aoifehorgan7582]

Unreal! Thank you! 😊🎶

[@johnmccabe7258]

Good stuff

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@kenmccarthy8445]

Great work, very well put together. Thanks for the Mason's Russell :) Phosphor bronze D string?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

One slipped on randomly!

[@kenmccarthy8445]

I thought maybe you slipped one on there to compliment your A tuning.🤔

[@tonydavitt8608]

Any music for these..thanks TONY .

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Yes Tony. On my Patreon I have 10 or 11 different lessons for this tune all fully transcribed and notated www.patreon.com/endascahillbanjo

[@tonyoneill9696]

Edna is there tab on paetron for this tune

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Yes. I made 19 separate lessons for it. All with TAB available

[@DexterA7X]

Sooo good thanks Enda you legend!! Is your G tuned up to A?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Yes! Been doing it for about 40 years 😂

[@DexterA7X]

@@IrishTenorBanjo that is so cool! I'm gonna try that out on some tunes! Is there any particular reason?

[@Sebideluxe]

Thanks for the comprehensive lesson. I get the feeling that you dont like Barney McKenna very much, do you?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

Curious! How you figure that? I've great respect for Barney

[@AlastorMoody-sp6bs]

@@IrishTenorBanjo I got the same impression when I listened to your interviews with Kieran and Gerry, especially with Gerry. Barney is certainly not technically the best banjo player, not even close to you or Gerry, but he played everything with feeling and that is why he is so loved. Apart from Mike Flanagan, he is the pioneer of the banjo in Irish music and certainly the most influential player. I'm sure you have a lot of respect for Barney, but I'm just saying that there's this impression that you're not a fan of his playing. Thank you for the lesson, great job, you are already a legend. 😁🪕

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

@@AlastorMoody-sp6bsyeah that’s a fair comment. Honestly as a kid Barney didn’t cross my radar as a player, possibly because I wasn’t listening very much to song based bands like the Dubliners so I wasn’t aware of Barney until later in my career when I met him and his brother, who by the way was an excellent player!!

[@JohnKiernan-f8s]

@@IrishTenorBanjotake no notice of these folk lad,, you gave Barney a big praise on this lesson ,, your going to get a lot of folk bringing on this crap, specially when your doing something positive ,your a total credit to the banjo lad, think that bloke needs a chat with himself , 😂🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️

[@larcully2937]

Where can I buy the stringjoy picks ?

[@IrishTenorBanjo]

stringjoy.com/categories/strings/picks/jumbo-jazz/partner/enda

[@ecarneylaw]

Thank you for this. I wish so much I grew up with the internet, this is remarkable. Does anyone know what "the mason's apron" means? I heard it in the new "True Grit" described as a coffin, but I can't confirm.

[@Slark81]

Freemasons are a secret type society usually made up of the "elite" of society. Their ceremonial clothing is an apron.

[@JimboSRP]

I honestly don't know. However, I do know that my father and my grandfather were Freemasons, and they had an apron as part of their ceremonial kit (and I think that apron represented the actual apron/tool belt that say a stone mason used to wear, and perhaps still do?). I always thought that's what the tune's name referred to, but like a lot of ITM tunes, the name can and often is completely different to what I think it is about!

[@ecarneylaw]

I learned this by mimicking Seamus Egan.