Here is my lesson/recording studio. I write contemporary classical, singer songwriter stuff and I love prog. I don't have time to herd the required truckload of people for yet another prog band so my next project is creating tracks for blended live/tracked performance. I am about to release a new album of SS stuff in the next few months, the album is being mastered at Cedar House by Gerry Putnam. I have stuff on soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/truejules

#SmusIntro

#smusintro 5/5 I've been casually posting clips to YouTube for years at https://www.youtube.com/arcanebanjo and I'm technically on bandcamp at https://arcanebanjo.bandcamp.com/ although my recording efforts have been scattered at best.

On my list of goals for the next year or so is to record and produce at least an EP of historical tunes and originals. I feel like I may finally make good on the #rpmchallenge this coming february. (Record a complete album during the month of February.)

#smusintro 4/5 In the context of the historical banjo music I've been focused on, I have to give a shout out to Tim Twiss, who has single-handedly created an aural record of hundreds (thousands?) of pieces of banjo music as published in numerous 19th-century instruction books. Check him out on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/giggletoot/videos) and buy his new book of 1868 James Buckley transcriptions from Mel Bay: http://bit.ly/2LhuhYh

He is also a super-nice guy and a great mentor.

#smusintro 2/5: I'm trying to reconnect with other musicians, something that's hard when you live in the sticks *and* have been focused on a fairly obscure type of music. But I need more music-making in my life, and need to prioritize it; in general I could use more discipline when it comes to practicing my instruments, and external pressure is good for that.

I'm not a big "New years' resolution" person, but I do think I'm making "find other musicians" my goal for next year.

My long-overdue Answers to @artsyhonker's #Smusintro questions, 1/5:
I'm mostly an instrumentalist; mostly 19th/early 20th century 5-string banjo styles, but give me chord diagrams and I can fake it on pretty much any fretted instrument. I'm also trying to learn #theremin.

I've also been dabbling with composition; I surprised myself by coming up with 20 new early-style banjo pieces for last month's #novembeat challenge. No formal training though I want to learn more.

#SmusIntro no idea what this is tbh but hey all.

1) i'm a singer-songwriter mostly but i like playing with others when i have the chance to

2) editing and recording. i really suck lol. but also everything really, im not in school for music and im mostly self trained.

3) i've been working on improving my singing, which has been fun. i've also been looking into doing some electronic shit, but im nowhere yet

4) elliott smith is my god

5) yes, but it hasnt been updated. its on my profile 😬