Syllabus:
This class should teach you the principles and basics on how to play old time banjo. No music theory is required, and no reading music is required or is necessary to play the banjo, or any music experience for that matter! Anyone can play the banjo!
Class 1. Intro to old time (clawhammer) banjo
- Basic History
- Banjo types
- Strumming types
- Intro to old time music
- Not Bluegrass!
- Tunings
- How to learn banjo
- Practice
- Listening to Songs
- Playing with others
- Clawhammer strum
- Reading tablature
- Basic Cripple Creek
- Listen
- Play
- Practice
Class 2 Clawhammer techniques
- Hammer on
- Pull off
- Slide
- Double Thumb
- Triplets
- Listen
- Play
- Shady Grove
- G Modal (Mountain Minor) tuning
Class 3:
- Review
- Chords in G tuning
- Double C tuning
- Angeline the baker in double C
- Listen
- Play
- Practice
Class 4: June apple
- Review
- Listen
- Play
- Practice
Class 5: Who’s who in Old time banjo
- Tommy Jarrell
- Henry Reed
- Hobart Smith
- Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- The Carter Family
- Clarence Ashley
- Elizabeth Coton
- Doc Boggs
- Woody Guthrie
- Pete Seeger
- Doc Watson
- Ken Perlman
- Tony Trischka
- Bela Fleck
- John Hartford
- Gillian Welsh
- Play
- Listen
- Practice
Class 6 Accompaniment
- Woody Guthrie
- Listen
- Play
- Practice
Class 7 Melodic Clawhammer
- Listen
- Play
- Practice
Class 8 Whiskey Before Breakfast
- Listen
- Play
- Practice
Class 9 Roundpeak style tune
- Listen
- Play
- Practice
Class 10
- Jam Party
Class 11 Downtown Banjoathon??
