learned Sheebeg and Sheemore today, clawhammer style.

started out with an hour or so of scales and then moved to some tunes i hadn't messed with in a while. reviewed Sweet Sunny South and then went on to the above mentioned Sheebeg and Sheemore.

Boom.

well, i learned Sweet Sunny South today with Dm tuning.
Started working on Sheebeg Sheemore, clawhammer style- haven't learned a clawhammer tune in years...
John Hartford's Long Hot Summer Day is killin' me, this one i can't seem to grab a hold of yet....it's drivin' me nuts!

i try to get at least two hours of banjo practice a day, some days i get anywhere from five to eight hours. lately it's been melodic minor scales and modes (not that i remember mode names or anything...), minor pentatonic scales and blues licks and new tunes! 

for years i hated learning new songs, it used to be really frustrating but now i've come to really enjoy the process, besides that is one of the sure fire ways to actually improve (jamming is another). you must constantly challenge yourself! in conjunction with that thought,  in the least two months i have acquired three new projects to work on, two in which i have a whole new repertoire to learn and one where i'm teaching some tunes that i needed a kick in the pants to work on. 

also conducting my first banjo clinic in two weeks up in Dallas Tx....
alright signing off for now.

march blind to the - ecstatic pulse of the
one true heart the - infamous thing
multitudes ravenous de - vour the poison fruit

all my devices - drive me insane but i'm
really too consumed to - notice, a
consumer consumed by - consumption, you
sell to my vanity, i - purchase my ego

{  .....  }

you been medicated & syndicated feeling
validated & educated not real-
izing you been -  isolated
subjugated and violated....

so here are some lyrics i started working on....

march blind to the pulse and the power
of the black and rising clock tower
ravenous! devour the poison fruit
harvested by meager hands with crushed hopes

     all of my devices drive me insane
     but i'm too consumed to notice
     a consumer consumed by consumption
     push my like button pleeeease!

     my world has a blueish greenish glow
     an information fairy land that FILLS me
     life is complete joy as long as the megabites flow
     feed me feed me feed me feed meeeee-

you got medicated and syndicated feeling
validated and educated not realizing you been
subjugated, truncated and confiscated,
marginalized, indexed and criminalized 
...... no fine