In my recent blog Notes vs. Chords, I attempted to describe my…
Author: Ron Hinkle (page 8)
Sing, Play, Sing
This phrase refers to a common banjo band song “arrangement”; sing the…
Choreography
As a blog writer, I sometimes worry about the inevitable “writer’s block”;…
Notes vs. Chords
Thanks to my desire to learn how to improvise jazz (and the…
Fairy Dust
The absent-minded maestro was racing up New York’s Seventh Avenue to a…
I’ve Tried Everything. . .
“I’ve tried everything short of practice and study, and I just can’t…
Improvisational Musings
As you will probably know from my past writing, one of my…
Hero Worship
I just realized an important clarification that I need to make. I…
Complexity
In my last blog, I wrote about simplicity, arguing that the banjo’s…
Simplicity
No doubt about it, the banjo has a well-deserved reputation for fun…