FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[sowilson]

I'm a guitar player, but my grandfather had a 1920s Gretch tenor banjo that's been handed down to me. I'm thinking about going with Chicago tuning to keep things familiar. Have you ever tried this tuning?

Nope, I don't know what Chicago tuning is.  For traditional Irish a tenor banjo is tuned GDAE an octave below a violin; keeps the fingering the same.  Some may use a 5-string or regular tenor banjo tuning in song accompaniment, but for playing tunes at speed it's GDAE.

[Retired Old Rat]

Anything that can top this? 

That road needs a do-over. If it's in front of your house, I smell an assessment coming.

Thankfully it's not my house.  I pulled it off twitter.  Faunch nailed the location: Highland Parkway just south of St. Kate's.

That is the block my sister lives on. Roads in this part of town are ridiculous. I keep trying different routes, it does not matter.

[Mr.MIAC]

I'm a guitar player, but my grandfather had a 1920s Gretch tenor banjo that's been handed down to me. I'm thinking about going with Chicago tuning to keep things familiar. Have you ever tried this tuning?

Nope, I don't know what Chicago tuning is.  For traditional Irish a tenor banjo is tuned GDAE an octave below a violin; keeps the fingering the same.  Some may use a 5-string or regular tenor banjo tuning in song accompaniment, but for playing tunes at speed it's GDAE.

Here's an explanation of Chicago tuning: https://blog.deeringbanjos.com/how-to-tune-a-tenor-banjo-to-chicago-tuning.

[sowilson]

I'm a guitar player, but my grandfather had a 1920s Gretch tenor banjo that's been handed down to me. I'm thinking about going with Chicago tuning to keep things familiar. Have you ever tried this tuning?

Nope, I don't know what Chicago tuning is.  For traditional Irish a tenor banjo is tuned GDAE an octave below a violin; keeps the fingering the same.  Some may use a 5-string or regular tenor banjo tuning in song accompaniment, but for playing tunes at speed it's GDAE.

Here's an explanation of Chicago tuning: https://blog.deeringbanjos.com/how-to-tune-a-tenor-banjo-to-chicago-tuning.

OK, it's basically a guitar tuning and so you would use guitar fingering. So you would be approaching tenor banjo as a guitar.  It would be useless for Irish Music.  It is really an advantage to play an instrument tuned in 5th's and not 4th's in ITM.  I play guitar and bass.  There are some ITM tunes that work OK in standard guitar tuning but many don't and you get some weird fingerings and crosspicking issues that slow you down - things you don't have if you tune the tenor banjo like a fiddle.  I've written some ITM tunes for guitar that work great on guitar and can be a bit of a PIA on a banjo - he, he.  I'm sure there are a few ITM banjo players that use that tuning along with a few that use claw hammer, or 3 finger on a 5 string, but they are very, very few.  All the rest of us tune an octave down from a fiddle and choose 17 or 19 fret instruments and work our butts off to do ultra fast triplets and play at speed.  It really doesn't take that long to learn the fingering for mandolin family and violin family instruments when coming to it from the guitar.  Now, if your playing a type of music where the Chicago tuning would be advantageous then fine, but traditional Irish isn't it.

[OzJohnnie]

+k post, sowilson.

[OzJohnnie]

Finally!  Go the Hawks!

[HSCTiger74]

Finally!  Go the Hawks!

Carn the Saints!   

[OzJohnnie]

A great start to the season!



https://www.hawthornfc.com.au/video/2019-03-23/r1-highlights-crows-v-hawks

[MUC57]

OzJohnnie

Go Hawks, I guess! 🏉 🍺

[OzJohnnie]

Carn the Saints!   

The Saints are up tomorrow.  They are looking at a hard year.  Lots of injuries and a lame duck coach.  How you can be a lame duck before the season starts is a mystery, but lame duck he is.

There will be a lot of moral victories on the cards for St Kilda, I fear.

[HSCTiger74]

Carn the Saints!   

The Saints are up tomorrow.  They are looking at a hard year.  Lots of injuries and a lame duck coach.  How you can be a lame duck before the season starts is a mystery, but lame duck he is.

There will be a lot of moral victories on the cards for St Kilda, I fear.

   Unfortunately there have been all too many of those since I became interested in footy. They had a couple of good years about a decade ago, but overall it's been a lot more wooden spoon than Grand Final for the Saints.

[OzJohnnie]

Carn the Saints!   

The Saints are up tomorrow.  They are looking at a hard year.  Lots of injuries and a lame duck coach.  How you can be a lame duck before the season starts is a mystery, but lame duck he is.

There will be a lot of moral victories on the cards for St Kilda, I fear.

   Unfortunately there have been all too many of those since I became interested in footy. They had a couple of good years about a decade ago, but overall it's been a lot more wooden spoon than Grand Final for the Saints.

A one point, nail-biting victory for the Saints.  Good work.

[HSCTiger74]

Carn the Saints!   

The Saints are up tomorrow.  They are looking at a hard year.  Lots of injuries and a lame duck coach.  How you can be a lame duck before the season starts is a mystery, but lame duck he is.

There will be a lot of moral victories on the cards for St Kilda, I fear.

   Unfortunately there have been all too many of those since I became interested in footy. They had a couple of good years about a decade ago, but overall it's been a lot more wooden spoon than Grand Final for the Saints.

A one point, nail-biting victory for the Saints.  Good work.

   Thanks for the update. Hopefully they can keep it going and make me eat my words.

[BDB]

Let's go old school:

The original Minnesota State Tournament All Hockey Hair Team

https://www.gameonmn.com/news_article/show/1007924-throwback-thursday-2005-all-hockey-hair-team (2005)

[art76]

Let's go old school:

The original Minnesota State Tournament All Hockey Hair Team

https://www.gameonmn.com/news_article/show/1007924-throwback-thursday-2005-all-hockey-hair-team (2005)

Nice! Thanx for the link BDB.