"Trifling Woman" Lesson
Added 2021-05-28 15:30:00 +0000 UTCgDGBD. I learned "Trifling Woman" from Josh Hayes of Watauga County, North Carolina. Hayes learned it from the 1960s Smithsonian recording of Frank Proffitt (also of Watauga County). This is my own arrangement.
Note, the bold P letters in measures 4, 6, 7, and 8 are technically referred to as "alternate string pull-offs" because the left hand is plucking a string that hasn't been picked by the right hand. Rufus Crisp of eastern Kentucky, perhaps the first banjoist to use this technique on a record, called it "the double shuffle." For those unfamiliar, I explain the technique here: https://youtu.be/pK5_3xGkVAk
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