The Hon. Mayor of Banjotown @mayor@banjo.town

This week's #earlybanjototw is "Sally Come Up", one I wasn't familiar with.

I went digging to see if I could find a piano score or maybe even a midi for accompaniment and found this very informative page. (TL;DR it was a popular minstrel song and as such, CW awful racism.) Scroll down to find the section about 'Sally Come Up'.

http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2008-12/thismonth/feature.php

This is quite pleasant. I should have grabbed that $40 bass that was on LetGo a couple of months back.

https://exode.me/videos/watch/c30cf2c7-0f2c-4be1-b909-171a5da1afa2

@lesbianhacker I've been exploring peertube a bit over the last week or so (@usonian) and there's a lot to like, but boy oh boy is there a lot of problematic content, in terms of "just reposting other peoples' IP from youtube" and "toxic radicalizing BS."

And say what you will about youtube, your search results are never smattered with random porn. 😐

I forgot to post another 'on this day' yesterday, this one's a wee original that I wrote and multi-tracked for #novembeat last year:

https://exode.me/videos/watch/91fc659c-8bca-419e-b6e1-535cc9d0af8e

#banjo #classicstylebanjo #arcanebanjo #mastomusic #mastomusician #tootradio #multitrack

@Eidon I've posted a few videos at @usonian since that seems to be a music-oriented instance, but it definitely feels like a chicken-and-egg problem of nobody wants to switch to peertube because there's no good content because nobody's posting there

@artsyhonker I answered 'Other' as I don't see the need for CWs; it's a legit part of the creative process. That being said, behind CWs works too.

I'm having unhealthy thoughts about attempting to spin up a peertube instance at something like tv.banjo.town

@usonian Peertube is cool but has even less public mindshare/understanding the Mastodon. There's Vimeo, but my sense is that that's more of a hosting environment than a social/consumption environment.

🤷‍♂️ Setting myself a reminder to download all my stuff before December 10.

@Eidon thanks! I have no idea what to expect; the terms are frustratingly vague in that they say

"YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable."

... so, it's "may terminate", not "will terminate."

someone on reddit pointed out that could also apply to anyone using ad blockers to access the site.

Lately I've been uploading my stuff to archive.org too, and I've also been fooling around with a peertube account (@usonian) but YouTube is pretty much where my audience is. Not sure where to go from here.

It's not like I'm in it for revenue; I have never and will never utter the words "Hey guys, remember to like and subscribe" in a youtube video. But the trickle of validation I've gotten over the years has been nice, and I would miss it. 2/

So... my youtube channel with its paltry 256 subscribers is the closest thing I've got to any sort of musical clout online.

It was demonetized last year (I did actually get a $100 check from ad revenue a few years back; it took me literally 10 years) and per the new TOS going into effect on December 10, I assume that means that my channel will be subject to arbitrary termination for not being "commercially viable." 1/

#mastomusicmonday: Cane Break Reel, from Frank Converse's 1865 "Yellow Book", #fretlessbanjo multi-tracked with #parlorguitar, #rhythmbones, and #bassdrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WrE8BJ_T1c

#mastomusic #tootradio #earlybanjo #multitrack #acapellaapp