SnakeLegs

My favorite music, running on decades now, has been instrumental music — electric guitar by Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc., — or at least vocal music in non-English like hippy hare krishna music by Rasa, or new age music by Kevin Wood. I’d prefer to listen to the music without being distracted by [...]

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After starting working at a company that’s very strict about desktop software, I’m now just storing and listening to my music from my new Sprint Moto Q cell phone.  Problems crept up quickly (not including the 6! visits to Sprint stores): large MP3 files skip!  That is, a 15-minute song will get 7 minutes or [...]

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Here’s a 5-string banjo version of (more or less) Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme – Sleepers Awake! (BWV 140).  The whole cantata is available for free download at the Wikipedia link above (this is from the 4th movement).
I’ve been poking around at this for a while, but nobody else in the family likes hearing [...]

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The “Gregorian Chant” CD, from the Monks Of The Abbey Of Notre Dame, is one of my constant companions.  Kyrie Eleison is the most memorable piece.  Very pretty.
This is a minimalist banjo version, with just a cheap mic hooked up to the computer.  So the sound quality isn’t great — just imagine it’s an old [...]

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I got a wild hair to start playing classical music on the banjo a while back.
I’ll add more songs as I learn them.
MP3 recording of Bach’s Prelude in C Major (BWV 846) on the 5-string banjo

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