sugar hill, son!
Banjo Equinox PlayersOkay gang, let's hear it. Post your videos of Sugar Hill. All levels, speeds, and fingertastic adventures welcome here. And when all the entries are in I'll do another random winner for a skein of Cold Antler Farm wool. Which means that by our next challenge (and the last challenge in Double C tuning) you could be frailing in a hat worn by Sal this time last year. I'll post my video soon, I just need some more practice. I haven't played it in a while, but I that didn't stop you. If I remember correctly, I think you can use a hammer-on in this beginner version!
And here is the first entry, Maggie, who has been playing just since Banjo Equinox Started, and I am so proud of her. This sounds like it deserves a campfire, fireflies, and a warm summer night already. Keep posting videos!
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posted by Jenna at 9:00 PM
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This is completely unrelated (I still can barely play Old Molly Hare, let alone start anything else. I'm not terribly good at this...) but I just had to tell someone!
I baked bread for the first time today! It is just a little probably about 1 lb boule of plain white bread (though it certainly looks fancy) but it was tasty and I made it myself!
(I am probably going to make another tomorrow because there is no way that's lasting the night when I have work to stay up late doing.)
Congratulations on the bread!! It is the greatest thing ever, to be able to knead and bake a loaf of bread. Keep practicing and you'll soon be doing it with your eyes closed.
And Jenna, it's a busy weekend but I'll keep practicing and get my video out before Sunday midnight. No fancy stuff, though, be warned.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magpieblue23/5608359853/in/pool-1600940@N23
oh boy.
congrats on the bread ozy!
Awesome Ozy!!! I've been baking my own bread for a few years now, but I am still so enamored with it that I have an entire photo set on Flickr just for pictures of bread. (I might get a little obsessive with things...)
Kitchen Mama - Nothing fancy here either, believe me.
Maggie - You are a natural. Seriously. You put my pitiful plunking to shame! Which you will see for yourself soon. ;)
Maggie, I can't seem to leave comments on Flickr so I just have to say that I agree with Amber--you have such a great feel for the music. I love it!
And Amber, I thought your "Old Molly Hare" was lovely, especially with the sounds of the kids in the background. You might have to get them to do that again for "Sugar Hill."
Maggie, I watched that smiling the whole time. It was beautiful. How long have you been playing now?
Ozy, that must have felt, and tasted, amazing!
Lovely playing, Maggie! And congrats on the bread, Ozy!
There is no way I will be able to post a video by Sunday midnight, thanks to in-laws invading our house for Easter weekend. But I'll look forward to seeing everyone else's.
There's no time limit on it, post your video when you can. It's good to see how we all do, comment, and keep track of how far you have come.
I just wanted you to know that I just made my own butter for the first time!!! OMG!!! I read how easy you said it was. Took a jar, let cream sit and then this am, put in my pocket while I was taking care of garden and pool. Then I had some fresh butter with homemade jam on bread!!! Now I have to make my own bread! Loving it. I was going to save the buttermilk, but the dogs were spitting on the floor they were so excited by the smell!!!! Thank you so much for your blog.
Good job Maggie! And Ozy, I still remember the first time I baked a loaf of my own bread (nearly 40 years ago!) and how it felt. I loved every single bite of it and my young family (including husband)was so appreciative. I never tire of homemade bread.
So here's mine, pretty rusty, but still music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4zspSMc3J0
Thanks everyone! I started with this Banjo Equinox! I played some guitar in college, that probably helped but mostly you know major punk rock chords ;)
Now I need to go make butter with my kids!
Here is my version of "Sugar Hill." I realize I have a big sigh at the beginning which is from filming myself oh, maybe a bazillion times, trying to get something passable. Funny how the song always sounds so good when you aren't recording... Anyway, I would have made another video without the heavy sigh but I couldn't bear the thought of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RBHaLqefg
I didn't make butter or bread this weekend but I did make a strawberry/rhubarb pie, an apple pie, and a buttermilk poundcake today for an Easter BBQ. All this talk of butter has me wishing for a cow!
Here's mine--not without error, but oh well!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2XuRKkusSw
Yeah Maggie! That's how I want to sound!
Ozy- Bread is where I started. I now have 5 acres , 13 pullets waiting to lay, a beef steer in the barn, and enough spinach, peas, lettuce and onions in the ground for a family of 5. (Also, I am learning the banjo.) Keep it up!
The sounds not to great, but here we go: http://youtu.be/f7cGTsWCZgI
Love these videos, folks. Everyone sounds great!
Here is my Submission!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEUb_gOF17c
Aaaaagh! First I break my fingernail, making playing difficult, then I get a MAJOR cold that I'm still getting over. My submission is coming soon, I promise. Now where did I put that webcam?
Finally caved and took this with my laptop webcam tonight because we just couldn't seem to find time to get it recorded.
The sound quality is a bit... odd I will say. Sort of tinny and the distortion in the background sounds like very quiet demonic laughing.
Far less charming than the wind chimes and children in my Old Molly Hare video. ;)
Anyway, Sugar Hill
Finally got myself recorded! Lots of background noise, thanks to my laughing son and the squawking macaw. Pay attention to the background, and you can see my blue-headed pionus sitting on the back of my chair at the beginning, then running across the table around the 1-minute mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an3UL5Dq2Yo
Here's my attempt at Sugar Hill, I wasn't able to do repeats of the song as my video cam recorder shuts off after 30 seconds! I'm just pretty proud of myself to have gotten this far with as i'm not computer savvy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN8qG3P0uQk
Finally! After countless attempts to record this, with dogs, and cat, and chickens, and alpacas all cutting in and taking my attention, I got it! My video is posted here.
http://youtu.be/ktMrk8IlHGs
Sorry for the lateness. I can't wait for the next song!
Hey, do we know what the next song is yet? I keep looking through posts to see if it was announced and I missed it somehow, but I still didn't see it.
I am insanely curious because I have been "working on" the remaining four songs in Double C tuning and I am hoping against all hope that we are not doing Polly Put the Kettle On. I'm not ready for all that yet and am having a hard time with some of the techniques.
Anyway, everybody's videos are great again. I'm so glad we're all doing this. I'm going to be sad when it's over!
Kind of late, but better than never right?? A really rough recording of sugar hill, which incidentally i can play much better when the camera isn't on. LOL
http://youtu.be/qWO3hxR7xwg
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