"The Cuckoo" Lesson & Tab
Added 2018-07-08 12:00:02 +0000 UTC Banjo is tuned fCFB♭C one step below gDGCD aka "Pretty Polly Tuning," "G Minor," or "Sawmill Tuning."
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Comments
Is the any possibility to get some tabs for the tune? Or maybe i can find them somewhere else? That would really help me out. It’s such a beautiful song.
Michel Schneider
2022-04-02 19:05:11 +0000 UTCThanks Clifton that’s awesome! You wouldn’t happen to have an over hand version would you?
Neil Krause
2019-03-03 23:50:34 +0000 UTCSure thing!
Clifton Hicks
2019-03-03 23:32:49 +0000 UTCThank you so much Clifton. First song I really learned on the banjo. Thanks for such a good lesson on one of my favorite songs. looking forward to learning more from you. Any change you would do a lesson on your version of Jesse James?
Neil Krause
2019-03-03 22:35:50 +0000 UTCThank you Clifton, like Banjo Jane, I've been watching your and George Gibson's versions on youtube. I think I have the basics down and learning other versions has helped. In your version it sounds like you're doing a double-thumb for the second part. Maybe you could do a video abut the double-thumb technique?
Paul Peers
2019-01-31 14:49:10 +0000 UTCI've been listening to your u-tube videos for the Cukoo in slow motion for a while. It's a treat to have some instruction. Just got Art Rosenbaum's "Art of Field Recording" CD set and it is facinating.
Banjo Jane
2018-08-12 12:34:24 +0000 UTCGreat, cheers Clifton
David Bryan Tompkins
2018-07-12 15:01:25 +0000 UTCGood song, I'd never heard it before. I'll listen to it a few more times and see if it sticks. Daniel Hester might take to it, also.
Clifton Hicks
2018-07-11 22:43:30 +0000 UTCI'm really appreciating your lessons Clifton, a big thank you, my banjo playing is improving and The Cuckoo is one of my favourites, really looking forward to being to play it. Just wondering if you'd ever consider working up a version of The Sheffield Apprentice, similar to Hedy Wests but in your style.
David Bryan Tompkins
2018-07-11 21:45:04 +0000 UTCThanks, Tony. I, too, seldom buy CDs unless it is something I find really important and/or it's from a friend's band at a live performance--I will usually mosey by the merchandise table and buy something more as a show of support than anything else. Usually, after listening a few times I then gift the CD to someone else. Art Rosenbaum's priceless "Art of Field Recording" with its extensive liner notes and imagery is an example of a hard copy MUST HAVE! As for the Japanese folk banjo scene, I am always waiting for that to "take off" for me... but have only sold a handful of albums over there.
Clifton Hicks
2018-07-09 17:38:00 +0000 UTCMusicians I know more in the singer song writer brand say there are often people who are your match who emulate (or often imitate) performers or narrow Genre in the US. There is a woman I know who goes back and forth between Miami and NYC who is chiefly a record producer in Jazz and Cuban and African music but was a singer song writer in the 60s and 70s and still will put on a show who has a Japanese "deoubkle" who hosted her in Japan and then came to Miami and did some shows with her. There might be someone in Japan who is clifton's double.
Tony Thomas
2018-07-09 17:25:08 +0000 UTCI think there are many problems that come from the change in medium from people actually buying CDs to people buying MP3s or using Mp3s. Even some projects I have had some minor involvement with at Smithsonian folkways, the issue has been even there the main thing is the Mp3s and is putting out a CD viable, Myself I dont buy CDs any more unless the material cannot be downloaded in some way. If buy a CD I usually donate it either to the local library or to a musician friend who has limited finances and hasnt made the jump to music through Mp3s.
Tony Thomas
2018-07-09 17:21:19 +0000 UTCCould help with "Clifton's Greatest Hicks" haha I think something like that would take a level of dedication, management, industry knowledge and administration that not a lot of people here have. I'd be interested in having something cool I could chuck a few quid in, whether it would be a new album with cool collaborations and mad instruments, a tour of some sort or maybe some kind of documentary video, or whatever. May be worth having a full blown discussion in the community section to bounce ideas around, maybe something cool will come of it!
Bobby Banks
2018-07-09 14:07:49 +0000 UTCAnother thought on the new folk revival: would anyone here have any interest in starting an indie record label for the sole purpose of recording and marketing up and coming folk/trad musicians? How big is the market for this stuff (i.e. would it be possible to recoup the fixed/recurring costs)? We have over 300 members here who might be regular buyers--that's enough to sell more than half of a single run of 500 CDs, which is really not a bad start. On that note, why don't we all pitch in to help Clifton record a new album with new material?
Micheál Mac Labhrás
2018-07-09 12:58:23 +0000 UTC
