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MIDWEST Banjo Camp Schedule, JUNE 3-5 , 2011

(Note: Room numbers and levels are at top of each column, unless otherwise noted)

2011 Preliminary Schedule pdf

 

Bluegrass:

Advanced

Bluegrass:

Advanced

Bluegrass:

Upper In-termediate

Bluegrass:

Upper Int-ermediate

Bluegrass:

Lower Intermediate

Bluegrass:

Lower Intermediate

Bluegrass:

Novice

Old-time:

Advanced /

Fingerstyle

Old-time:

Advanced

Old-time:

Upper In-termediate

Old-time:

Upper Intermediate

Old-time:

Lower In-termediate

Old-Time: Novice

Old-time Fiddle Track

Bluegrass Fiddle Track

Guitar Track

Bass Track

Jams &

Special Classes

Fri noon

Registration On-Going: Continues Till 3:00 PM

12:15-1:30

 

Early Bird Bluegrass Jam: Rm 305

 

Early Bird Old-Time Jam: Rm 109

 

12:30-1:30

Faculty Meeting: Kirk Cafeteria Conference Rm

1:45-2:45p

Orientation: Auditorium

Fri

3:00-4:15p

Essentials of Single String: Closed Scale Positions, Mode Exercises


McKinney

That Real Country Sound: Leads & Backup à la JD Crowe & Sonny Osborne


Evans

Playing in Keys Other than G Without the Capo


Munde

Intro to Melodic Bluegrass


Jones

Learning to Hear the Basic Chord Changes


Henry

Technical Tuneup - Honing the Basic Skills


Beazley

The Three Basic Rolls


Sumner

Intro to Old-time Finger-picking


Brown

Develop Your Own Banjo Solo & Banjo Vocal Style


Rosenbaum

Black Banjo Styles


Carlin

Maggie Hammons' Rabbit Skip: A Study in Traditional Clawham-mer Technique


Gellert

Review of Clawham-mer Basics


Miles

Getting Started at Clawham-mer


McMurray

Old-time Fiddle: Fingering Technique in Appalachian Style


Jabbour

Bluegrass Fiddle: Double Stops


 Berline


Bluegrass Guitar: Cross-

picking


Grier

Bass: Just the Bass-ics


Ball


 

Fri 4:30-5:45p

Alternating Thumb Style Banjo


Adcock.

Don Reno Techniques & Tunes


McKinney

The ABC's of Scruggs- Style Banjo


Mills

Using Alternative Tunings in Bluegrass


O'Bryant

Roll Logic.

How the Rolls Work


Munde

How to Have Fun Jamming (& Get Asked Back)


Beazley

Working on Basic Chords


Sumner

Index & Thumb- Lead

2-finger-picking:

the Styles of Lunsford & Holcomb


Rosenbaum

Specialized Right-Hand Techniques of Southwest Virginia's Masters Claw-hammerists:


Traynham

Songs & Tunes from Uncle Dave Macon


Barton Para

Intro to Minstrel Banjo


Carlin

Fundamentals of Drop- and Double-Thumbing


Perlman

First Chords, Working on the Right Hand


McMurray

Old-time Fiddle: Bowing Technique in Appalachian Style


Jabbour


Bluegrass Fiddle: Back Up & Fill-ins


Berline

Bluegrass Guitar:


G-runs & Other Important Runs


Grier

Bass: Getting the Most from Your Bass - Rhythm, Melody & Harmony


Youngman

 

6:00-7:00p

Friday Dinner: Kirk Cafeteria

7:15-9:15p

Faculty Concert, Part I: Auditorium

Fri.9:30-10:45p

 

Progressive Jam: Ball, Jones, McKinney,

Grier

Open Jam:

Berline, O'Bryant, & Young-man

Intermediate Jam:

Evans & Munde

Intermediate Jam:

Mills

Learn How to Jam:

Beazley

Slow Jam:

Sumner

 

 

Open Jam:

Carlin & Gellert

Learn How to Jam:

Jabbour & Rosenbaum

Intermediate Jam:

Brown & Traynham

Slow Jam:

McMurray

Composers'Circle:

Miles

 

Vocals Jam: Adcock,

Barton Para & Henry

 

 

Fri

11:00p-?

Bluegrass Pickers: Jam on Your Own in the Following Spaces:

Any Classroom, Lounge, Vestibule, or Other Common Area

Old Time Pickers: Jam on Your Own in the Following Spaces:

Any Classroom, Lounge, Vestibule, or Other Common Area

 

8-9:00a

Saturday Breakfast: Kirk Cafeteria

Sat 9:15-10:30a

Swing Tunes for Banjo


McKinney

Pop Songs & Movie Themes for Banjo


Adcock


Jerusalem Ridge & Other Bill Monroe Tunes, Melodic Style


O'Bryant

Fretboard Geography: Finding Your Way Around the Fingerboard


Munde

Intro to

Bluegrass Backup: Making It Drive Using Forward Rolls


Evans

On Beyond

the G, C & D Chords: Hearing the Less Common Chord Changes


Henry

Putting Left- & Right-Hand Skills Together


Sumner

Up-Picking + Brush-Thumb: Traditional Sources of Pete See-ger's Basic Strum


Rosenbaum

Concepts for Playing Up the Neck in Claw-hammer

Style


Perlman

Kyle Creed's Clawham-mer Style


Carlin

Two-Fisted Clawham-mer:

Essential Rhythms for the Left Hand


Gellert

Midwest Fiddle Tunes


Barton Para

More Right-hand Work, First Fiddle Tunes


McMurray

Old-time Fiddle:


Traynham

Bluegrass Fiddle: Improvis-ation


Berline

Bluegrass Guitar:

Strategies & Techniques for Playing Rhythm Guitar


Grier

Bass: Using Music Theory Effectively


Youngman

Banjo Maintenance & Repair


Reinsmith

Sat. 10:45-12:00 noon

How Great Thou Art: Using String Bends to Simulate a Pedal Steel


Mills

Swing/Jazz Chords: Progres-sions & Turnarounds


Jones

Analysis of Classic Banjo Solos


Munde

Old-time Fiddle Tunes, Bluegrass Style


O'Bryant

Top Ten Scruggs Licks


Beazley

Trading Breaks on a Tune: How to Do It


Henry

A Few Simple Tunes


Sumner

Old-time

3-finger chord-style in standard-C Tuning


Gellert

Banjo Duets: Learn to Make Your Own Harmony Lines


Miles

Playing Blues on Old-time Banjo


Brown

Rhythmic & Decorative Techniques That Add Fullness To Your Performances


Traynham

A Guide to Alternative Tunings & How to Use Them


Carlin

Using Hammers, Pulls, & Slides


McMurray

Old-time Fiddle: Foms of Appalachian Syncopation


Jabbour

Bluegrass Fiddle: Playing in Different Keys


Berline

Bluegrass Guitar:

Passing Chords


Grier

Bass: Jam Etiquette for both Bluegrass & Old-time


Ball

Amplifying the Banjo: A Guide to Mics & PA Systems


Billik

12:15-1:15p

Saturday Lunch: Kirk Cafeteria

1:15-1:45p

Group Photo (Bring Your Instrument!); Location: Library Steps

Sat. 2:00-3:15p

Earl's Hardest Licks: the "Jump Up" Lick, & Licks from Bugle Call Rag, Salty Dog Blues, Etc.


Evans

Merging Jazz & Bluegrass: the 2-5-1 Progression & Using Rootless Voicing Clusters


McKinney

Advanced Bluegrass Backup


Munde

3rds & 6ths: Playing Melody & Harmony Together


Jones

Controlling the Power and Dynamics of Your Right Hand


Mills

Playing the Melody: Make Up Your Own Solos to Jam Tunes


Beazley

"Help, I Never Vamped Before!"


Henry

Advanced Old-time

3-finger Picking: the Styles of Uncle John

Patterson & Snuffy Jenkins


Rosenbaum

If Bach Had a Banjo: Renaissance & Baroque-Era Tunes, Clawham-mer Style


Miles

Singing with the Banjo: Arrangements & Techniques


Brown

Sugar Hill from Scratch


Gellert

Dance Tunes from the southwest Virginia Blueridge


Traynham

Chords to Melody: Learn to Play the Tune from Simple Chords


Cathy Barton Para

Old-time Fiddle:

Alternative Tunings


Jabbour

Bluegrass Fiddle: Specialized Bowing Techniques for Bluegrass


Stoddard

Bluegrass Guitar:


Slides, Pull-Offs, String-Bending, Etc.


Grier

Bass: Walking Bass Lines & Other Tools of the Rhythm Section


Youngman


Old-time Jam



Sat. 3:30-4:45p

Walking Basslines, Texas-Swing & "Stride" Bass as Approaches

to Backup


McKinney

Beatles & Other Classic Rock Tunes, Bluegrass Style


Jones

Earl Scruggs' Ground Speed & Other Classics


Mills

Telecaster Banjo: Electric Guitar Licks in

3-Finger Style


Adcock

Deriving Melody from Chord Positions Via Rolls


O'Bryant

Basic Theory for Dummies:

I-IV-V and Song Form


Evans

Have Fun Playing With Others


Beazley

The Finger-picking Style of

Pete Steele


Rosenbaum

Two Tunes Played by Ed Haley for Claw-hammer: Boatman & Half-Past Four


Carlin

Breaking New Ground: Folk-Rock, Delta Blues, & Reggae, Clawham-mer Style


Miles

Celtic Reels, Clawham-mer Style


Perlman

Banjo Pickin' Girls: Songs from the Coon Creek Girls & Cousin Emmy


Barton Para

AcheivingGood Timing & How to Learn Simple Tunes by Ear


Brown

Old-time Fiddle:

 

Gellert

Bluegrass Fiddle: New Tunes


Berline

Guitar:


Back-up for Styles for Old-time Music


D Para

Bass:

Driving the Bus - The Role of the Bass in Bluegrass & Old-time Music


Ball

Bluegrass Jam


5:00-5:45p

Free Period: Jam on Your Own in Any Class Room or Public Area!

6:00-7:00p

Saturday Dinner: Kirk Cafeteria

7:15-9:00p

Faculty Concert, Part II: Auditorium

Sat. 9:15- 10:45p

 

Open Jam:

Ball, Berline, Mc-Kinney & Mills

Intermediate Jam Adcock,

Munde &

Youngman

Intermediate Jam:

Jones, Evans & Grier

 

Intermediate Jam: Adcock, Henry & O'Bryant

Bluegrass Jam from a List:

Sumner

Slow Jam:

Beazley

 

 

Open Jam:

Jabbour & Perlman

Intermediate Jam:

Brown & Rosenbaum

Intermediate Jam: Bar-ton Para & Traynham

Old-time Jam from a List:

Carlin

Slow Jam:

McMurray & Miles

 

 

 

10:45-11:15

Snack Time!: Vestibule at Mott Main Entrance

11:15p-?

Jams!

Bluegrass Pickers: Jam on Your Own in the Following Spaces:

Any Classroom, Lounge, Vestibule, or Other Common Area

Old Time Pickers: Jam on Your Own in the Following Spaces:

Any Classroom, Lounge, Vestibule, or Other Common Area

 

8:00-9:00a

Sunday Breakfast: Kirk Cafeteria

Sun 9:15-10:30a

Munde's Tunes: Peaches & Cream, Molly Brown, & Others


Munde

Bill Monroe's Road to Columbus & Pike Co. Breakdown: Blending Melodic & Scruggs Styles -


O'Bryant

Learn About Passing Chords & a New Tune: Bill Emerson's Theme Time


Evans

Special

Effects: String Bending, Whistlers & Zonkers, Simulating Keith Tuners, Etc.


Adcock

Productive Practice Tips & Tools


Beazley

Learn All the Chords You Need to Know in One Lesson


Jones

Learn a Simple Tune on Banjo


Henry

Traditional Appalachian Singing with the Banjo: Unison,, Ballad & Hoedown Styles


Rosenbaum

Improvi-sation & Variations,

Clawham-mer Style


Perlman

Exploring Cumberland Gap Tuning (F#BEAD)


Traynham

How to Play with Fiddlers: Concepts & Strategies


Brown


Songs from the New Lost City Ramblers


Barton Para

Right Hands Right, Left hands Right: Acheiving Effective Hand Positions


Carlin

Old-time Fiddle:

Waltzes, Old-time Style


Jabbour

Bluegrass Fiddle: Playing Traditional

Tunes in Bl;uegrass Style


Stoddard

Guitar:


Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes on Guitar


D Para

Bass: How to Play Music You Don’t Know & Anticipate where the Music is Going


Youngman

Instant Clawham-mer for Bluegrass Players


Miles

Sun

10:45a -

12 noon

Classical Music on Banjo: Bach, Vivaldi, & Beethoven


Jones

Using 3-Finger Rolls on Single Strings


Adcock

Playing Solos & Backup in the Key of D Without a Capo


Evans

Learn Pig in a Pen from the Ricky Skaggs' Band Repertoire


Mills

Playing in 3/4 Time


Henry

The Right Hand De-mystified: Motion Exercises, Tone & Timing


McKinney

Review, Suggestions for the Future


Sumner

World

Music, Clawham-mer Style: African & Latin Rhythms


Miles

Round-Peak Retro-spective:

Contrasting Creed, Jarrell, & Cockerham


Brown

Popular Missouri Contest Reels & Hornpipes

for Claw-hammer


Barton Para

Learn The Old Jimmy Sutton


Gellert

The "Mac Attack": Achieving a Hard Driving String Band Sound


Traynham

Review, Suggestions for the

Future


McMurray

Old-time Fiddle:

Airs & Crooked Tunes


Jabbour

Bluegrass Fiddle: Alternative Tunings


Berline

Bluegrass Guitar: Bringing it All Together


Grier

Bass: Review & Suggestions for the Future


Youngman

 

12:15-1:00p

Sunday Lunch: Kirk Cafeteria

1:00-1:30p

Artists' Store Last Call

1:15-215p

Office Hour


Mills

Office Hour


McKinney

Office Hour Jones & Munde

Office Hour

Adcock &

O'Bryant

Office Hour


Evans

Office Hour

Henry & Beazley

OfficeHour


Sumner

Office Hour


Munde

Office Hour


Miles

Office Hour


Rosenbaum

Office Hour


Barton Para

Office Hour


Gellert

Office Hour


Carlin

Office Hour

Brown &

Traynham

Office Hour


McMurray

Office Hour


Grier

Office Hour


Youngman

Office Hour:

Berline & Jabbour

3:00 PM

 Camp Ends