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
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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 |
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12:15-1:30 |
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Early Bird Bluegrass Jam: Rm 305 |
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Early Bird Old-Time Jam: Rm 109 |
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12:30-1:30 |
Faculty Meeting: Kirk Cafeteria Conference Rm |
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1:45-2:45p |
Orientation: Auditorium |
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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 |
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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 |
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6:00-7:00p |
Friday Dinner: Kirk Cafeteria |
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7:15-9:15p |
Faculty Concert, Part I: Auditorium |
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Fri.9:30-10:45p |
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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 |
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Open Jam: Carlin & Gellert |
Learn How to Jam: Jabbour & Rosenbaum |
Intermediate Jam: Brown & Traynham |
Slow Jam: McMurray |
Composers'Circle: Miles |
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Vocals Jam: Adcock, Barton Para & Henry |
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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 |
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8-9:00a |
Saturday Breakfast: Kirk Cafeteria |
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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 |
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1:15-1:45p |
Group Photo (Bring Your Instrument!); Location: Library Steps |
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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! |
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6:00-7:00p |
Saturday Dinner: Kirk Cafeteria |
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7:15-9:00p |
Faculty Concert, Part II: Auditorium |
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Sat. 9:15- 10:45p |
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Open Jam: Ball, Berline, Mc-Kinney & Mills |
Intermediate Jam Adcock, Munde & Youngman |
Intermediate Jam: Jones, Evans & Grier |
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Intermediate Jam: Adcock, Henry & O'Bryant |
Bluegrass Jam from a List: Sumner |
Slow Jam: Beazley |
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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 |
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10:45-11:15 |
Snack Time!: Vestibule at Mott Main Entrance |
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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 |
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8:00-9:00a |
Sunday Breakfast: Kirk Cafeteria |
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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 |
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12:15-1:00p |
Sunday Lunch: Kirk Cafeteria |
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1:00-1:30p |
Artists' Store Last Call |
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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 |
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