HOME

  • Home
  • Weekly Banjo Blog
  • Elderly Videos
  • New CD! (Stripey Cat)
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Weekly Banjo Blog
  • Elderly Videos
  • New CD! (Stripey Cat)
  • Contact

Jeff Norman 
Weekly Blog on Clawhammer Banjo

Track 3 - South Kensington Shuffle

6/17/2017

1 Comment

 
After another short travel-related hiatus from recording my album (here), I'm back with another original fiddle tune! This one's called "South Kensington Shuffle" - its a D tune with an AAB structure though the B part is twice as long as the A part so it feels like an AABB tune. Here you go:
"South Kensington Shuffle" - an original fiddle tune by Jeff Norman (me). Played twice through by me on my Buckeye tuned to aDADE; guitar accompaniment the second time through using a 12-fret Epiphone Masterbilt in standard guitar tuning capoed on the 2nd fret.
Tune and recording Copyright 2017 - Jeff Norman.
I recorded this playing along with Garage Band's built-in metronome set to 110 bpm, but I think it could be a pretty great barn-burner for the speed freaks out there! The A part starts out pretty close to the C part of "Cumberland Gap" (the 3 part version in D)...but I'm okay with the overlap : ). The B part of "South Kensington Shuffle" starts on a G (IV) chord, which I think sounds nice. 

The "South Kensington" part of the name comes from the hyper-posh region of London my parents lived in for a few years; to any Brits who may be reading: yeah, yeah...I know. The "shuffle" part is because I think a near-constant shuffle would be a great way to approach this tune on fiddle (...of course thats how I approach every tune on fiddle...). The Buckeye has been un-edited since the last recording...one tone ring, steel strings, renaissance head. Tuning is aDADE.

Hope you enjoyed the tune - we're on the home stretch of the album so hopefully I can finish soon!
1 Comment
imgrum link
6/17/2019 02:18:26 am

Thank you for sharing the nice track

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    -----
    MY NEW ALBUM (STRIPEY CAT)  IS NOW AVAILABLE!

    (more info available by clicking the tab at the top of the page)
    -----
    About this blog

    I have lots of ideas about banjo playing and music in general - this blog allows me to get them all out of my head and see what you think.

    ​Check out an index of previous posts on my homepage (here)

    Archives

    February 2020
    January 2019
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly