Prickly Pear Music

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Banjo Brad

Prickly Pear Music

Making Music on my Chuck Lee

I will be using this site to provide mp3's, tabs, and tutorials that might be helpful to beginning clawhammer banjo players. Besides clawhammer banjo, I will also provide any songs that I like, perhaps some photos, and links to sites I think are interesting.

This site will not be exclusively music, I may add things that I think are interesting, or relevant.

Beginning Clawhammer Banjo lessons available. If you are in the greater Tucson, AZ area and are interested in learning how to play the clawhammer style of 5-string banjo, contact me via the e-mail link on my "Contact" page.

Tucson Old Time Music Circle

More info available by clicking the link above.

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Old Time Music Circle Flyer (pdf file)

NEW! Check out the neat TOTMC merchandise now available! By purchasing any of these items you will be helping cover the costs associated with the room.

http://zazzle.com/Banjo_Fiddle*

I was recently asked to let a Gold Prospecting webpage use one of my Clawhammer Banjo tunes for background for one of their weekly videos about prospecting for gold in Virginia.

Of course, I was delighted to have my music put before more people (keeping the old music alive)! You can view the video on my YouTube page, user name "bbrad1207", or here:

Here's a second video the Gold Prospectors used a song by me on:

The song is "Kicking Mule" and includes a vocal (fair warning).

PROJECTS:

CaneBottom Chair - completed 06/07/2007

My latest project is adding new cane to the seat of a chair that is close to 100 years old. Click the link to see the diary. Ongoing at this time, so check back often until it is completed.

Before leaving my site, please sign my guestbook.

Enjoy a chuckle before you move on to more important things!

What's New?

3 August, 2007
July Music Circle notes.
Added links to the recorded tunes.

1 July 2007:
Update to Music Circle page regarding June session.

13 May 2007:
Added a link to a new "Projects" page. The current project is a cane-bottom chair restoration.

4 May, 2007:
Updated TOTMC page

20 April 2007:
New tune on a new banjo added to my Music Page

6 April 2007:
FINALLY got around to posting the F tuning tabs
by Old Woodchuck!

5 April 2007:
Updated Music Circle page for March Circle.

27 February 2007:
Added February's Circle synopsis.

19 February 2007:
Added Tune List for Feb Music Circle

27 January 2007:
Added new Tucson OT Music Circle Page.

3 January 2007:
Old Time circle announcement added.

11 November 2006:
Added new tune, Arkansas Traveler, and associated tabs.

17 October 2006:
Added ZIPped file on 4-legged bridge
1 October 2006:
Added a new tune & tab
Added a classical guitar medley.
Added LH Exercises to Old Woodchuck's page.
Added tab for Barlow Knife

25 Sept 2006
Added a new page to present Oldwoodchuckb's tabs.

22 Sept 2006
New tune on Music page
16 Sept 2006
Added major scales for a soprano ukelele.

5 August 2006:
Added tabs to "Good Stuff" page.
Added "Follow the Drinking Gourd" to my songs page.
Added "Glass of Gin" to my songs page.

5 July 2006:
PDF files added to tab section of "The Good Stuff" page.

1 July 2006:
Added a new "musical Musing."

29 June 2006:
Added a new fiddle tune, "Sugar Hill" and an updated "Soldiers Joy" on the music page

20 June 2006:
New posting in Fiddle Log.

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Clawhammer Banjo & Folk Music by Banjo Brad