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Keep the rhythm going while you flip your banjo all over the place!

uncle dave macon version

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Lush twin fiddle version of Lady Hamilton from Marcus Martin.

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Banging old time from the "Goodbye Girls". Tune is also known as John Brown's Dream.

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AJ Srubas is the fiddler on this. Always solid! He won clifftop in 2023.

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Foghorn with Rafe Stefanini on banjo.

Me and a buddy have worked up some southwestern tunes lately, that are usually played with twin fiddles doing harmony. I'm playing the second fiddle parts on guitar, and now I've started working on harmony for other fiddle tunes. I record the tune melody and then loop it while I try various harmony approaches.

In bluegrass sometimes its hard to keep the chords in mind when I'm taking a break - especially if I just learned the tune. But it feels like this harmony thing is helping with chord awareness and unlocking some interesting sounds even in my solo break playing.

Anyone else have this experience in harmony playing? Or have other ways of keeping the changes in mind during breaks.

This is kind of a rant and a discussion. I've been getting more into bluegrass recently and keep getting demotivated by how niche it is. I've loved bluegrass since I was a teen, but now that I'm actively trying to play it, it's very demoralizing.

Granted I live in a more urban area, but it's very hard to find jams, and even just other players, around unless I drive at least an hour.

It also feels like there aren't many "masters" to study. For guitar it's basically Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, and Clarence White.

Then to top it off, even the "big" acts still aren't well known so your chance of jamming to some Billy Strings or Molly Tuttle is next to nil. Bluegrass players only want the standards, non bluegrass players won't even know the artist at all.

I do hope this newer generation makes the genre a little less rigid, but even then, that'll be 10-20 years down the line. Anyway, rant over. Figured it was worth posting just for some activity here.

Discovered these guys at a festival last year. The whole album is great but this is one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=486SfTozblo