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What are your Top Ten song lessons?

#6

My favs to practice/play… sorry yeah it’s not a top ten exactly :slight_smile:

Beginner Track:
Old Joe Clark
Wreck of the Old 97
Unclouded Day
Cripple Creek
Nine Pound Hammer

Intermediate Track:
Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
John Henry
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Keep on the Sunny Side
In the Sweet By-and-By
Cherokee Shuffle
Life’s Railway to Heaven
Bill Cheatham
Black Mountain Rag
I am A Pilgrim
Fireball Mail
Jesus Loves Me
Red Haired Boy
Salt Creek

Advanced Track:
Lonesome Road Blues
Red River Valley
Grandfather’s Clock
John Hardy
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Saint Anne’s Reel
Arkansas Traveler
Cumberland Gap
Cattle in the Cane
Shenandoah Breakdown

So, a top ten for me from all of that:
Lonesome Road Blues
John Henry
Red River Valley
Grandfather’s Clock
Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Unclouded Day
In the Sweet By-and-By
Cherokee Shuffle
Wreck of the Old 97

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#7

I was under the impression that this was to inform Ben’s list of ten to assign for this year’s camp

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#8

We may use a few from the last camp, but we’re thinking we want some new material for the next one. I plan on using your recommendations to come up with that list. We’d like to give folks several months to get these songs down before camp. That’s why I’m starting to work on it now.

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#9

OK, that’s what I was looking for. Thanks :slight_smile:

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#10

In no particular order:

Angeline The Baker
Beaumont Rag
John Henry
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Bill Cheatham
Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Further In The Fire
Fireball Mail
In The Sweet By and By
Nine Pound Hammer
Saint Anne’s Reel
Unclouded Day
Wayfaring Stranger
Shuckin’ The Corn

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#11

Hey, that was my line! :face_with_raised_eyebrow::joy:

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#12

OK… in somewhat random sequence… :wink: But I don’t think I’ll be attending. :frowning:

IrishWasherwoman
BoogieWoogieG
Liberty
WabashCannon
BlessedAssurance
LostIndian
BoilDemCabbage
BlackMtnRagA
ThereisaFountain
SweetByAndBy

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#13

Tax your thesaurus much?

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#14

In an assorted pattern
In a non-arrayed structure
In an unordered arrangement
In an uncategorized list
In a non-linear grouping
Or my personal favorite, in a non-sequential sequence. :laughing:

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#15

Sometimes but not in this case… :slight_smile:

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#16

Non-sequential sequence! coool!

no sequitur

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#17

You should have copyrighted it. Oh well.

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#18

Hmmm, what’s another word for Thesaurus?

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#19

lexicon?

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#20

Lonely-giant-ancient-reptile?

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#21

I thought so too… but you nicely described what I meant to say before!

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#22

It’s just one of those questions to ponder really. Kind of like - why is abbreviated such a long word?

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#23

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Over The Waterfall

No Power In The Water

Cherokee Shuffle

Grandfather’s Clock

East Tennessee Blues

Saint Anne’s Reel

Keep On The Sunny Side

Liberty

Soldier’s Joy

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#24

Hey Dawn! Welcome to the board!

Thanks for you list. You have some good ones in there.

#25

I’d like to see @BanjoBen doing a lesson on On top of Old Smokey. It is a tune I have always loved from my childhood but as yet I have not figured out how to play it. It’s a good one for community singing

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