Bluegrass

Bluegrass

Bluegrass

Bluegrass

Novice Track

Old-time

Old-time

Old-time

Old-time

Novice Track

Special Events:

Locations Noted

Fri noon

Registration

Fri. 12:30-2:15 PM

Early Bird Bluegrass Jammers Here.

Early Bird Old Time Jammers

Here.

Fri 1:15

Faculty Meeting: Auditorium

Fri 2:30-3:45

An Intro. to Single-String Playing.

(Luberecki)

From Bluegrass to Western swing: A New Slant on Bluegrass Chord Progressions.

(Keith)

The Essential Earl: Licks & Techniques: For

Intermediate Players.

(Evans)

Intro Class: Tuning, Basic Chords, Right- Hand Position.

(Keenan)

Intro to Round Peak Clawhammer.

(Leftwich)

Singing with the Banjo I: Backup Chording.

(Boosinger)

Miles: Play that Tune an Octave Up, Clawhammer Style.

(Miles)

Intro Class: Tuning, First Chords, the Basic Frailing Rhythm.(Smith)

Fri 4:00-5:15

Basic Bluegrass Back-up.

(Davis)

The Well Tempered Banjo: Playing in All 12 Keys.

(Barnes)

An Intro to Melodic Banjo.

(Adcock)

First 3-Finger Rolls

(Keenan)

An Intro. to Minstrel, or “Stroke-Style” Banjo for int/adv Clawhammer Players

(Buehling)

Fundamentals of Drop- and Double- Thumbing.

(Perlman)

The Banjo Legacy of Tommy Jarrell

(Brown)

More Chords, Working on the Right-hand (Smith)

Backup Guitar Class, Cabin #8. (J. Canote)

Fri 6-7

Friday Dinner

Fri 7:15-8:45

Orientation / Meet the Faculty

Fri.9-10:30

Jam with:

Davis & Evans

Jam with:

Adcock & Keith

Jam workshop with: Langston, Williams, Barnes & Luberecki

Bluegrass Slow Jam (cabin #3) with: Keenan

Jam with:

Leftwich & Boosinger

Jam with:

Brown & Miles

Jam workshop with: J. & G. Canote

Old-Time Slow Jam (cabin #6)

with: Smith

Fri 10:45-?

Start Your Own Jam! (Any Vacant Class Space)

Sat 8-9:00 AM

Saturday Breakfast

Sat 9:15- 10:30

Stuff You Ain’t Supposed to Play on Bluegrass Banjo: Rock & Roll, Fret-Tapping & Other Weird Tricks.

(Luberecki)

An Intro. to 3-Finger Leads: Create a Solo for Any Tune.

(Davis)

Up the Neck Backup.

(Evans)

First Licks, Incorporating Hammers, Pulls and Slides.

(Keenan)

Ozark & Oklahoma Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer.

(Leftwich)

Ragtime Clawhammer.

(Perlman)

Carter Family Songs.

(Boosinger)

Melody & Fills Using Hammers, Pulls, & Slides. (Smith)

Old Time Jam Workshop.

(G. & J. Canote)
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Fiddle Class. (Williams)

Sat. 10:45-12:00 noon

Jazz chords on Banjo.

(Barnes)

Alternating- Thumb Style Banjo

(Adcock.)

From Scales and Modes to Leads and Breaks.

(Keith)

Backup for Novices.

(Davis).

Bells & Spaces in Clawhammer: The Styles of Wade Ward & Giles Lephew.

(Brown )

Using Tone, Articulation, Phrasing & Silence in Clawhammer to Create a Tapestry of Sound

(Miles)

Intermediate Minstrel Banjo: Stroke-Style Versions of Old-Time Favorites.

(Buehling)

Basics of Back-up for 4/4 and 3/4. (Boosinger)

Bluegrass Jam Workshop.

(Langston,

Williams, Luberecki)

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Intro to the Banjo Uke,

(J. Canote)

12:15-1:15 PM

Saturday Lunch

Sat 1:30-2:45

Blending Scruggs, Melodic & Single String Styles.

(Luberecki)

Where’d Everyone Go?: Playing Bluegrass without the Band.

(Barnes)

Playing Slow Songs, Bluegrass Style: Backup & Solos.

(Evans)

First Solos. (Keenan)

Intro. to Fretless Banjo.

(Leftwich)

Singing with the Banjo II: Fillers and Lead-ins (Boosinger)

“Shaping” Fiddle Tunes: How to Express Phrasing in Clawham-mer.(Perlman)

First Fiddle Tunes

(Smith)

Join the Banjo Orchestra!: Play from “Parts” in Tab- or Standard Notation. For Clawhammerists & Fingerpickers.

(Conductor: Buehling)

Sat 3:00-4:15

Using Substitution Chords.

(Davis)

Special Effects on Bluegrass Banjo: String Bending, Whistlers, Zonkers. Plus, Simulating Keith-Tuners.

( Adcock)

Demo/Instruc-tional: Complete Review of Bluegrass Rolls.

(Keith)

Fundamentals to Build On.

(Luberecki)

If Bach Had a Banjo: Clawhammer Settings of Baroque Music.

(Miles)

Last Chance at Cumberland Gap: Using D-& F- Tunings for Clawhammer or Old-Time Fingerpicking (Brown)

An Intro. to “Classic” 3-Finger Style for old-time fingerpickers & bluegrass players.

(Buehling)

Old-Time:

In Good Time: Playing in Sync with Others. (Leftwich )

Special Jam:

Northwest Tunes, Dining Hall. (Williams, Langston)

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Old-time Fiddle Class.

(G. Canote)

Sat. 4:30-5:45

Demo: Banjo Twilight Zone. (Adcock, Barnes and Luberecki)

Demo: All Scruggs, all the Time. (Davis, Keith & Evans, with Langston)

Demo: From Stroke-Style to “Melodic”: Clawhammer, 1845-2005.

(Buehling, Miles, Perlman)

Demo: Traditional Songs form the mid-South.

(Boosinger,

Brown, Leftwich)

6-7:00

Saturday Dinner

7:15-9:45

Faculty Concert

Sat. 10:00-11:15

Jam with:

Barnes & Luberecki

Jam with:

Adcock, Evans & Davis

Jam with:

Williams, Langston & Keith

Bluegrass Slow Jam: with Keenan

Jam with:

Boosinger, G. Canote & J. Canote

 Jam with:

Brown & Perlman

Jam with: Leftwich & Miles

Old Time Slow Jam: with Smith

Banjo Orchestra: Conducted by Buehling

11:30-?

8-9 AM

Sunday Breakfast

Sun 9:15-10:30

Building Solos Based on the Melody

(Luberecki)

Playing in the keys of C and D, bluegrass Style.

(Evans)

From Pythagorus to Bluegrass: The Mathematics of Music.

(Keith)

Playing With Good Tone and Rhythm (Barnes)

Fiddle Tunes from Western North Carolina for Clawhammer. (Boosinger)

Waltzes & Jigs in Clawhammer

(Perlman)

The Thumb-Lead Two-Finger Style of Carroll County, Virginia (Leftwich)

Some Great Tunes for Novices.

(Brown)

Instant Clawhammer for Bluegrass Pickers: Play Banjo the Old-

Fashioned Way.

(Miles)

Sun 10:45-12 noon

Advanced Single String Style.

(Adcock)

Backup for Fiddle Tunes

(Davis)

Beyond Bluegrass: Using 3-finger Banjo in Unusual Contexts.

(Barnes)

Review, Suggestions for Future (Keenan)

Syncopation & Improvisation as Composing Tools for Clawhammer.

(Miles)

Ragtime, Classic Banjo Style: for All Fingerpickers.

(Buehling)

Demo/Instruc-tional: Round Peak Banjo & Fiddle Working Together.

(Brown,

Leftwich)

Review, Suggestions for Future. (Smith)

12:15-1:10 PM

Sunday Lunch

1:15-1:30

Photo Opportunity

Sun 1:45-2:55

Bluegrass Demo: Jazz, Swing or Show-Tunes

(Adcock, Barnes, Davis, Evans, Keenan, Keith, Langston, Luberecki)

Old-time Demo: Traditional Or Unusual Tunings

(Boosinger, Brown, Buehling, Leftwich, Miles, Perlman, Smith)

3:00 PM

 Camp Ends