Arts & Crafts

Bluegrass

Cabin #1

Bluegrass

Cabin #2

Bluegrass Inter-mediate Track

Cabin #3

Bluegrass

Novice Track

Auditorium

Old-time

Cabin #4

Old-time

Cabin #5

Old-time Inter-

mediate Track

Cabin #6

Old-time

Novice Track

Special Events:

Locations as Noted

Fri. noon

Registration: Dining Hall

12:30 -2:15p

Early Bird Bluegrass Jam

Early Bird Old-Time Jam

Fri. 1:15p

Faculty Meeting: Auditorium

Fri. 2:30 -3:45p

Intro to Be-Bop

Banjo

(Barnes)

Essential Chords & Rolls for Traditional Bluegrass (Keith)

Intro to Jamming and Backup

(Wernick)

Tuning, Basic Chords, Right- Hand Position.

(Stahlman)

Demo-Instruc-tional: The African Roots in American Banjo Music

(Carlin)

Intro to Round Peak Clawhammer

(Brown)

Review of Clawhammer Basics

(Miles)

Tuning, First Chords, the Basic Stroke (Smith)

Accompanists Available for Faculty-Concert Rehearsals

(Canote, Canote, Langston, & Williams.)

Fri. 4:00 -5:15p

Intro. to Melodic Bluegrass

(Keith)

Learn All Chords Forever, Based on Just Two Intervals

(Cloud)

Ear Training for Banjo: Learn to Listen & Play by Ear

(Beazley)

First 3-Finger Rolls

(Stahlman)

The Clawhammer Styles of Fields & Wade Ward (Brown)

Exploring Song Accompaniment: Using Chords up the neck in three positions.

(McClatchy)

Fundamentals of Drop-Thumbing & Double- Thumbing

(Perlman)

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

6:00 -7:00p

Friday Dinner

Fri. 7:15 -8:15p

Orientation / Meet the Faculty: Auditorium

8:15-9:30p

Faculty Concert, Part 1

Fri.9:45-11:15p

Jam with:

Barnes & Cloud

Jam with:

Keith & Beazley

Jam workshop:

Wernick, Langston, Williams

Bluegrass Slow Jam:

Stahlman

Jam with:

Carlin & Brown

Vocals Jam with:

McClatchy & Miles

Jam workshop with:

G. & J. Canote

Old-Time Slow Jam:

Smith

Fri. 11:15 -11:30p

Snack Time

Fri, 11:30p - ?

Bluegrass Pickers: Free Jamming!

Old-Time Pickers: Free Jamming!

8:00 - 9:00a

Saturday Breakfast

Sat. 9:15 - 10:30a

Single String Scales Workshop

(Barnes)

Break Out of a Rut: Using Unconventional Roll Patterns

(Wernick)

Bluegrass Team-work: Playing with a Band

(Beazley)

First Licks, Incorporating Hammers, Pulls, and Slides

(Stahlman)

Tunes of Ed Haley for Clawhammer

(Carlin)

Hammer-ons, Pull-Offs, Triplets, & Ornaments in Clawhammer Style

(Perlman)

California Style Frailing (McClatchy)

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

Intro to the Banjo Uke & Clawhammer- Uke, Cabin #8

(J. Canote)

Sat. 10:45 - 12 noon

Chord-Melody Soloing

(Cloud)

From Scales and Modes to Leads and Breaks

(Keith)

Picking it Solid: Achieving Clarity Punch and Timing:

(Wernick)

Playing with Good Tone & Rhythm

(Barnes)

Old Tunes, New Thinking: New Approaches or Tunings for Some Old Favorites

(Brown )

Syncopation, Sound and Silence: the Miles approach to Clawhammer

(Miles)

Freedom from Tab: Simplify tunes so you can play them.

(Carlin)

Basics of

Back-up

(McClatchy)

Old-time Fiddle Class, Cabin #8.(G. Canote)

12:15 -1:15p

Saturday Lunch

1:15 - 1:45p

Camp Photo (Bring Your Banjo): Location TBA

Sat. 2:00 - 3:15p

Add Color to Your Chord Shapes: Using 6ths, 7ths, 9ths,

Etc.

(Wernick)

Pentatonic

(5-note scale) Improvization, & Tonal Organ-ization

(Cloud)

Appropriate & Musical Back-up Approaches for Vocal Numbers

(Beazley)

First Solos

(Stahlman)

Introduction to old time finger-picking

(Brown)

The Fiddle Tunes of Henry Reed for Clawhammer. (Perlman)

Intros, endings, & Fillers

(Miles)

First Fiddle Tunes

(Smith)

Backup Guitar Class,

Cabin #8. (J. Canote)

Sat. 3:30 - 4:45p

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

(Barnes)

Bluegrass Backup: an Overview

(Keith)

Turn a Simple Melody into a Break

(Cloud)

More Solos

(Beazley)

Demo-Instructional: Intro to Minstrel Style Clawhammer

(Carlin)

Charlie Poole’s 3-finger style

(McClatchy)

Intro. to Syncopation

(Perlman)

In Good Time: Playing in Sync with Others

(Brown)

Fiddle Class,

Cabin #8.

(Williams)

5:00 -6:00p

Free Period

6:00 -7:00p

Saturday Dinner

7:15 -8:45p

Faculty Concert, Part 2: Auditorium

Sat.

9:00-10:30p

Jam with:

Beazley, Barnes & Williams

Jam with:

Cloud, Keith, Langston

Intermediate Jam with:

Wernick

Bluegrass Slow Jam:

Stahlman

Jam with:

G. & J. Canote, McClatchy

Jam with:

Brown & Perlman

Intermediate Jam with:

Carlin & Miles

Old Time Slow Jam:

Smith

10:30p

Snack Time

11:00p - ?

More Bluegrass Jamming!

Available Spaces: Cabins 1-3, 7-9, Richmond 1 & 2

More Old-Time Jamming!

Available Spaces: Cabins 4-6, 10-12, Auditorium, Arts & Crafts Bldg.

8:00 - 9:00a

Sunday Breakfast

Sun. 9:15 - 10:30a

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

(Keith)

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

(Barnes)

Mental Mapping: Developing an Image of Where the Sounds Are

(Stahlman)

Jamming and Backup for Novices (Wernick)

Clawhammer Styles of Western North Carolina

Bob Carlin

Waltzes, Clawhammer Style

(Perlman)

Getting around in three C-Tunings: standard-C, double-C, & open-C

(McClatchy)

Some Great Tunes for Novices

(Smith)

Instant Clawhammer for Bluegrass Players

(Miles)

Sun. 10:45a - 12 noon

Finding & Varying the melody in Scruggs Style Solos

(Beazley)

Intro to Jazz Soloing

(Cloud)

The Loop Method: How to Use Your Practice Time Most Efficiently

(Wernick)

Review, Suggestions for the Future

(Stahlman)

Classic Rock, Clawhammer Style

(Miles)

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

(Brown,

Carlin)

Exploring A-minor and A-modal tunings

(McClatchy)

Bring Your Right Hand to the Next Level

(Perlman)

12:15 - 1:15p

Sunday Lunch

Sat. 1:30 - 2:45p

Banjo Twilight Zone:

Barnes, Cloud, Keith with Langston

Traditional Bluegrass Heaven:

Beazley, Stahlman, Wernick

Appalachian Tunes:

Brown, Carlin, Smith with Canotes

Tunes from the North & West

McClatchy, Miles, Perlman

3:00 PM

Camp Ends