Hello Mel.

Thursday March 5, 2009 06:12 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/funpics/banjo/banjobobs/cripplecreek/cripplecreek.htm#wavepadmasters

Cripple creek Tony Trishka banjo. WavePad examination of one two three four two two three four lead-in storage oscilliscope output revealed that the beat is about 194 per minute - probably 1/8th notes. No, 1/4 notes! Here's the Cherub metronome counting at 194 clicks per minute. WavePad Master's was used to mix the above two mp3 audio segments.

Banjo Lesson - Cripple Creek McKeon.

Saturday February 7, 2009 16:38 Cripple creek melodic. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/funpics/banjo/banjobobs/cripplecreek/cripplecreek.htm#melodic

Banjo Bob demonstrates melodic cripple creek on Saturday February 7, 2009.

Sunday February 1, 2009 13:15 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/funpics/banjo/banjobobs/cripplecreek/cripplecreek.htm

About 25 minute trip from Albuquerque to Banjo Bob's store in Cedar Crest up highway 14, the turquoise trail. Here's Banjo Bob's store on Saturday January 24, 2009. Snowed on Friday night. Here's Banjo Bob arrangement homework assignment that week. This is a Banjo Bob rendition. Here's some of the banjos in Bob's store. Each week Bob give homework assignments. One assignment was to read Chapter 2 of Music Theory for Dummies. Timing one of bill's problems. A bad problem only addressable with an electronic metronome. Usual lesson starts with bill showing what he had learned the previous week. This usually goes badly. But is getting better over time. Lesson concludes with assignment for the next week. If the assignment is a tune, then Bob demonstrates. Here's a January 31, 2009 photo of Bob with his Deering banjo. Bill records the lesson with a Sony IC mp3 recorder. Knowlege of a recording being made can upset spontenaity. Therefore, bill starts the Sony IC mp3 recorder before entering Banjo Bob's store. Only the recorder is place in bill's shirt pocked which, incidentially is covered by a polar fleece jacket. The recorded is not turned off until bill leaves. This means that there is unessential header and trailer audio. Here's the mp3 recording of this week's Cripple Creek assignment. Here is the score Bob used. An audio editor is required to clip out segment of the about 30 minute plus 15 minutes of BS lesson serrion. We use WavePad free download from NCH. Several download attempts were require before we got a good installation. It is possible to crash WavePad, particularly if the file a long. We have successfully audio edit files of over and hour in length, however. WavePad is an impressive program. We recomment the WavePad audio editor. Added Sunday February 1, 2009. Goggle search of McKeon banjo resulted in discovery of Seach in index of [Tony Trishka] Trishka's book Teaching Yourself Bluegrass Banjo yielded Trishka's book and accompaying cd are super-important for the reason that Trishka uses a metronome in some of his examples. Copies must be made to place on you music stand. Banjo Bob has been super-critical of bill's progress for the reason that bill speeds up and slows down. Banjo Bob points out that timing is far more critical than hitting the right note. Bob points out that you can recover from hitting the wrong note but that you cannot recover if you lose timing. Fortunately, we have all of Bob's comment recorded in mp3 format. Maybe we will post when we have time. Solution is to use a metronome. Banjo Bob orginally had the metronome set at 45 measuring 1/4 notes. After reading Chapter 2 of Music Theory for Dummies and seraching on google, bill questioned whether it might be a better idea to set the metronome on 90 to time 1/8 notes. This worked far better for bill. Bill had a hard time interpolating 1/8 notes in assignment At the next lesson Bob and Bill debated merits of both methods. The debate was recorded in mp3 format and may be posted at a future time. END So far