Bluegrass:

Advanced

Bluegrass:

Advanced

Bluegrass:

Upper In-termediate

Bluegrass:

Upper Int-ermediate

Bluegrass:

Lower Intermediate

Bluegrass:

Lower Intermediate

Bluegrass:

Novice

Old-time:

Advanced, or

Fingerstyle

Old-time:

Advanced

Old-time:

Upper In-termediate

Old-time:

Upper Intermediate

Old-time:

Lower In-termediate

Old-Time: Novice

 Fiddle Track

Guitar Track

Jams &

Special Classes

Fri noon

Registration On-Going: Continues Till 3:00 PM

12:15-1:30

Early Bird Bluegrass Jam:

Early Bird Old-Time Jam:

12:30-1:30

Faculty Meeting:

1:45-2:45p

Orientation:

Fri

3:00-4:15p

The Banjo Style of JD Crowe

Evans

Beatles & Other Classic Rock Tunes for Bluegrass Banjo

Jones

Playing in the Minor Keys

Cahill

Intro to Melodic Bluegrass

Keith

Roll Logic.

How the Rolls Work

Munde

Technical Tuneup - Honing the Basic Skills

Beazley

The Three Basic Rolls

Sumner

Intro to Old-time Finger-picking

Sauber

Kentucky Fiddle Tunes

Benford

Arranging a Song & Its Accompaniment

Fink

Intro to Melodic Clawhammer

Bursen

Reviewing the Basic Skills

Coole

Getting Started at Clawhammer

Newberry

Old-time Fiddle: Building a Good Foundation for Fiddling

Taylor

Bluegrass Guitar:

Carter Family Style

Barenberg

Banjo Maintenance & Repair

Reinsmith

Fri 4:30-5:45p

Creating Solos to Songs

Munde

Intro to Single String Style

Flinner

Blues Banjo: Improvisation Over a 3-Chord Harmony

Cavanaugh

Using the lowered 4^th- String Tuning (gCGBD) for Playing in the Keys of C and D

O'Bryant

Intro to

Bluegrass Backup: Making It Drive Using Forward Rolls

Evans

How to Have Fun Jamming (& Get Asked Back)

Beazley

Working on Basic Chords

Sumner

Thumb- vs. Finger-Lead: The 2-finger picking style of Roscoe Holcomb & Bascom Lunsford

Sauber

Missouri Fiddle Tunes

Barton Para

Playing Low & Playing High: Obtaining the Melody in Two Octaves

Newberry

Intro to Round Peak Clawhammer

Carlin

Fundamentals of Drop- & Double-Thumbing

Perlman

First Chords, Working on the Right Hand

Coole

Old-time Fiddle: The Smooth Fiddling Styles of Doc Rob-erts, Buddy Thomas & Others

Taylor

Bluegrass Guitar: Rhythm Guitar Workshop

Barenberg

Michigan Fiddle Tunes for All Instruments

McMaken

6:00-7:00p

Friday Dinner:

7:15-9:15p

Faculty Concert, Part I:

Fri.9:30-10:45p

 Jams

Progressive Jam: Cava-naugh, Jones & Whalen

Bluegrass Open Jam: Ball, Flinner & O'Bryant

Bluegrass Intermediate Jam: Evans, Munde & Barenberg

Bluegrass Intermediate Jam: Cahill

Bluegrass Slow Jam:

Sumner

Old-time Open Jam:

Carlin & Sauber

Old-time Intermediate Jam: Taylor & Newberry

Old-time Intermediate Jam: Bursen & Fink

Old-time Slow Jam:

Coole

All Styles Vocals Jam:

Barton Para & Beazley

Fri11:00p-

Jam on Your Own in the Following Spaces: Any Classroom, Lounge, Lobby, or Other Common Area

8-9:00a

Saturday Breakfast:

Sat 9:15-10:30

Devil's Dream & Other Fiddle Tune Arrangements

Keith

Swing/Jazz Chords: Progressions & Turnarounds

Jones

Analyzing Earl: Rolls, & Licks from Four Classic Scruggs Solos

Evans

Fretboard Geography: Finding Your Way Around the Fingerboard

Munde

A Guide to Intros & Endings

Cahill

Drive & the Forward Roll: Learn Two Scruggs Solos

Beazley

Putting Left- & Right-Hand Skills Together

Sumner

Coal Creek March: An Old-time Fingerstyle Classic

Benford

Syncopation & Ragtime, Clawhammer Style

Perlman

Wade Ward's Clawhammer Style

Carlin

Composing New Tunes for Banjo

Fink

Banjo Songs of Grandpa Jones

Barton Para

More Right-hand Work, First Fiddle Tunes

Newberry

Old-time Fiddle: Dance Style Fiddle -

Timing & Shuffles

Taylor

Bluegrass Guitar: Bluegrass G-Runs

Barenberg

Bluegrass Mandolin

Flinner

Sat. 10:45-12:00 noon

Intro to Jazz Improvisation: Soloing

Cavanaugh

Boogie Woogie Earl: Scruggs' Coolest Backup Licks

Evans

Analysis of Classic Banjo Solos

Munde

Old-time Fiddle Tunes, Bluegrass Style: Leather Britches, Ebenezer Etc.

O'Bryant

Intro to Playing Up the Neck

Cahill

Working Up Speed

Flinner

A Few Simple Tunes

Sumner

The 3-finger Picking Styles of Charlie Poole & Geo. Pegram

Sauber

Left- & Right-hand Tech-niques for Advanced Playing, Including a Handy Guide to Triplets & Ornaments.

Bursen

Frailing

Tunes from Opry Star "Stringbean"

Newberry

Tunes from Legendary Ozark Fiddler Bob Holt, for Clawhammer

Barton Para

Learning How to Jam

Carlin

Using Hammers, Pulls, & Slides

Coole

Clarke Kessinger Contest Tunes

Taylor

Bluegrass Guitar: Improving Tone & Reducing Choppiness

Barenberg

Bass Accom-paniment

Ball

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Appalachian Clogging

Graziano

12:15-1:15p

Saturday Lunch:

1:15-1:45p

Group Photo (Bring Your Instrument!)

Sat. 2:00-3:15p

Transposing Solos to Different Keys & Chord Positions

Cahill

Fiddle Tunes, Bluegrass Style: Combining Single-String & Melodic Approaches

Cavanaugh

Advanced Bluegrass Backup

Munde

Playing in Open D Tuning

Flinner

Lonesome Modal Licks: Blue Night & Clinch Mtn Backstep

Beazley

Some Great Standards: Red Wing, Home Sweet Home, Old Spinning Wheel, Etc.

O'Bryant

Finding the Melody by Ear

Jones

Taming the Beat Within: Learn to Play Behind, Square-on, or Ahead of the Beat.

Newberry

Ed Haley Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo

Benford

Darling Nelly Grey: An Intricate Arrangement

Fink

Ghost Fingers: Getting the Most Music from the Fewest Notes

Bursen

Learning Tunes by Ear on the Fly

Coole

Intro to Single C Tuning (gCGBD)

Cathy Barton Para

Old-time Fiddle Class

Sauber

Old-time Guitar: Backup for Fiddle Tunes - Techniques & Strategies

Para

Old-time Jam

Leaders TBA

Sat. 3:30-4:45p

Composing Bluegrass: Analyzing Classic Songs & Learning to Write in the Style

Cavanaugh

From Scales & Modes to Leads & Breaks

Keith

Integrating Scruggs, Melodic & Single String Styles in Solos

Cahill

Plug & Play: Learn 50 D to G Licks

Jones

The Mechanics of Good Tone

O'Bryant

Focus on the Left Hand: Slides, Pull-offs, Hammer -ons & Proper Fretting

Evans

Have Fun Playing With Others

Beazley

Beyond Round Peak: Applying Round Peak Clawhammer to Tunes from Other Regions

Sauber

Creating Variations on a Tune: Tips, Tricks & Philosophy

Fink

Single-C Tuning (gCGBD): Learn Jimmy Sutton & Cricket on the Hearth

Carlin

Jigs, Clawhammer Style

Perlman

That Old-time Rhythm: Building a Solid Right-Hand Technique

Benford

Getting Started Playing with Others

Coole

Old-time Fiddle: Cross-Key Fiddle Tunes from West Virginia

Taylor

Bluegrass Guitar: Playing Fiddle Tunes (& All Else) with a Strong Pulse & Solid Time

Barenberg

Bluegrass Jam

Leaders TBA

5:00-5:45p

Free Period: Jam on Your Own

6:00-7:00p

Saturday Dinner:

7:15-9:00p

Faculty Concert, Part II:

Sat. 9:15- 10:45p

   Jam

Bluegrass Open Jam: Cavanaugh, Flinner & Ball

Bluegrass Intermediate Jam: Jones, Munde & Whalen

Bluegrass Intermediate Jam: Barenberg, Evans & O'Bryant

Bluegrass Intermediate Jam: Cahill & Keith

Bluegrass Jam from a List:

Sumner

Bluegrass Slow Jam:

Beazley

Old-time Open Jam: Taylor & Perlman

Old-time Intermediate Jam: Benford & Bursen

Old-time intermediate Jam: Sauber & Coole

Old-time Jam from a List:

Carlin

Old-time Vocals Jam: Barton Para & Fink

Old-tim Slow Jam: Newberry

10:45-11:15

Snack Time!:

11:15p-?

Jam on Your Own in the Following Spaces: Any Classroom, Lounge, Lobby, or Other Common Area

8:00-9:00a

Sunday Breakfast:

Sun 9:15-10:30a

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

Keith

Using Melodic Style in the Keys of C & D: Soldier's Joy, St. Anne's Reel

Evans

Mapping a Song: How to Organize & Arrange a Tune, Use a Lyrics Sheet & Number System

O'Bryant

Some Tunes You (Probably) Never Heard Before: Lazy John, The Weave & Way, Etc.

Flinner

Playing with Taste: Balancing Silence & Clutter

Sumner

Playing in Any Key Without a Capo

Jones

Learn a Simple Tune or Two on Banjo

Cahill

Mountain Minor Tuning (gDGCD) as an alternative Tuning for the Keys of G and F.

Sauber

Playing Close Harmonies

(a Third Above or Below the Melody), Clawhammer Style

Perlman

Developing Variations to Fiddle Tunes in Clawham-mer, Bursen Style

Bursen

Fiddle Tunes of Norman Edmunds for Clawhammer

Benford

Easy to Learn Modal Tunes

Barton Para

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

Carlin

Bluegrass Fiddle Class:

Whalen

Old-time Guitar: Fiddle Tunes with Easy Melo-dies and Great Chord Changes

Para

Sun

10:45a - 12 noon

Advanced Melodic Style: Fiddle Tunes

Munde

Using 3-finger Rolls on a Single String

Cavanaugh

Jerusalem Ridge, Wheel Hoss & Other Bill Monroe Tunes

O'Bryant

Plug & Play: Learn 30 G to C Licks

Jones

Productive Practice Tips & Tools

 Beazley

Perfecting the Forward Roll with Earl's Fireball Mail

Flinner

Review, Suggestions for the Future

Sumner

Converting Clawhammer Tunes to Old-time Finger-picking

Benford

Western Fiddle Tunes

Barton Para

Using Dock Boggs Tuning – f#CGAD, f#DGAD, & Related Tunings in Clawhammer

Bursen

The 5 T's: Tone, Touch, Timing, Technique &

Tuning

Coole

Playing in 3/4 Time

Fink

Review, Suggestions for the Future

Newberry

Old-time Fiddle: The Melting Pot -Use Licks from Several Fiddlers to Improvise or Compose New Tunes

Taylor

Bluegrass Guitar: Composing Melody-Driven Solos

Barenberg

Instant Clawhammer for Bluegrass Players

Carlin

12:15-1:00p

Sunday Lunch:

1:00-1:30p

Artists' Store Last Call

1:15-215p

Demos

Demo: Jazz & Swing Workshop (Host: Jones)

Cavanaugh Jones Keith

Demo: Fiddle Tunes, Bluegrass Style (Host: Munde)

Barenberg Flinner Munde O'Bryant

Demo: Scruggs' Style Roundup (Host: Evans)

Cahill Sumner Whalen

Demo: Singing with the Banjo (Host: Beaxley)

Beazley Barton Para Coole Fink

Demo: Melodic Approaches to Clawhammer (Host: Perlman)

Benford Bursen Perlman

Demo: Old-time Fingerpicking + Banjo-Fiddle Duets (Host: Carlin)

Carlin Newberry Sauber Taylor

2:30 PM

 Camp Ends