Tag Archives: Deck The Halls

Banjos Rule Audio Blog Post: George Preiss Plays Deck The Halls

Banjos Rule Audio Blog Post: George Preiss Plays Deck The Halls

Please click into this article and give a listen to a little recording by my blog reader, friend, and fan George Preiss. My readers always have an open invitation to submit recording of themselves so that we can all hear how you are doing, and George took that offer to heart by recording himself picking the song that I taught in my Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas blog series. Give a listen and then leave some comments for George at the bottom of the article!… Continue Reading

Banjos Rule University: banjo tablature sucks! I quit!

Banjos Rule University: banjo tablature sucks! I quit!

Banjo tablature is a wonderful tool that can really aid your learning, but tablature too often can be frustrating. Sometimes, it’s hard to make the song sound like the song as you play what’s in the tablature. It might be because the tablature wasn’t written well, or it might be that you aren’t interpreting something right.

No matter what, I have some thoughts on learning with tablature in general, and one song specifically. It’s a song I taught during my Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas, and my good friend and blog reader George Preiss struggled with it a bit in one little section. Click into the article to learn more…. Continue Reading

The Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas: Day Six

The Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas: Day Six

"…On the sixth day of Christmas, Banjo Paul gave to me…" SHEESH! I just can’t resist singing that song to you! My singing is further proof that sometimes: BANJO AIN’T PRETTY. Wait…does that mean that I represent the seedy underbelly of the banjo world?! I guess there are many people who think so.

So we’ve arrived at day #6 of the Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas, and today I deliver another gift to you. No, I’m talking about UPS and overnight deliveries and me fighting the mall crowds to pick out your present. But I do give you a little something in several of these blog posts, and this another one of those. Click in to the article to read more. I’m going to finish my song: "…a banjo in a pear tree…". (Nah, I guess that doesn’t work.)… Continue Reading

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