Today we have two tabs to announce: Walking by The Dodos and Reprise by Grizzly Bear. Both of these were sent in by Olivia M. Check them out and enjoy! Now if you see an error or feel OCDly motivated to clean up the formatting, send it in! Again, send it to us through Github [...]
Listen up y’all cause this is it: we now have all tabs in a repository on Github. You may be asking yourself, “AltBanjo, why do I care?” Don’t worry baby birds, I’ll feed you. First and formost, modifications to all the tabs will be publicly tracked. So if someone discovers that a hammer-on from the second [...]
I’d like to announce to the interwebs that the Willow Tree tablature by Chad VanGaalen is complete. I did it in a week as a part of a 1week1project endeavor. If you’d like find out more on what went into the tab, head over there for a concluding blog post. Enjoy!
If you’d like to get up to the second updates on how the song is going you should follow me on twitter. Or if you are old school, you always see the song status tweets roll out here: #willowtreeproject.
Yes, I know that AltBanjo has been dead for quite some time now. In the past I’ve tried to employ some Futile Devices to get myself to contribute more, but alas, it was Too Much. However, Now That I’m Older, a graduate, and a member of the working force I have felt the need to [...]
Have you ever wished you could play like Bela Fleck? I know I have wished that in the middle of the night the banjo fairy would come and put some banjo skills under my pillow. That hasn’t happened yet, so I figured learning some of his songs would be the next best thing. Bela is [...]
Whilst perusing the altbanjo twitter stream, I came across a post by @petewiss about his Banjo Heroes. This series of posts is about “people who inspire me to become a good banjo player.” Each edition of this series highlights an influential and progressive banjo player. The musicians featured range from Steve Martin to Scott Avett. It is an [...]
So when I was thinking as hard as I possibly could about the best albums of 2009 (which I finally decided upon), there was one that stuck in my frontal lobe without me even having to retrieve it from the recesses of my year long memory. This album, Sigh No More by the London band [...]
Hello everyone! After a break from altbanjo for some soul searching, we are back! I say we because I have a brought a friend to talk about what is going on in the alternative banjo universe. Her name is Kathleen and she has a blog called My Best Friend’s Arm (which is awesome and I [...]
I really cannot say much today expect that Sufjan has posted a previously unreleased song from his past. From his blog post, he describes singing these songs “in the privacy of my dorm room, behind closed doors, pillows and cushions stuffed in the air vents so no one would hear.” The post describes what he [...]