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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??

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Here is my new Mike Ramsey Chanterelle Woody banjo. It’s beautiful!!

I like this funny write up about this banjo:

The Ramsey Woody In April 2005 the ivory-billed woodpecker, long feared extinct, was rediscovered in the Deep Woods, a remote part of Arkansas, some 60 years after the last confirmed U.S. sighting. This bird learned to be shy of humanity and therefore survived. There is a similar Woody that comes from the hills of Virginia. Its song is dangerously captivating to banjo players. Some have been known to wait months and months just to get their hands on one. Whereas some banjos have been known to create marital discord when their owner’s spouses learn of one more instrument purchase, not the Mike Ramsey Woody. Even banjo spouses can detect that its unique sound creates a value greater than its modest price. We have invented the “Woody Watch” to detail our sightings and anticipations.

The Mike Ramsey Woody Model is designed with a wooden tone ring attached to the wooden rim. The combination of a thicker rim and a wooden tone ring produces a very pleasing tone, with plenty of volume and a sound completely it’s own.

Neck Three piece maple neck 25.75″ scale length Bone nut Two-way adjustable truss rod Planetary tuners and geared fifth peg Pearlwork of our design Ebony fingerboard and peg head overlay Frailing scoop Lacquer finish Rim 11″ or 12″ maple rim Wooden tone ring Dowel stick construction Fiberskin head No Knot tailpiece Options Coordinator rods Hard shell case Armrest Maple, walnut, cherry and figured woods Fancy inlay Heel carving Fretless Left hand banjo Maple standard

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