2011 Saturday Banjo Class Schedule
(Class content is subject to change.)
| Saturday 7/30 | ||||||||||
| Session | Bluegrass Banjo | Jam Class | Clawhammer Banjo | |||||||
| No. | Time | Novice Scruggs | Beginner Scruggs | Intermediate Scruggs (multiple styles) | Advanced Scruggs (multiple styles) | Jam Class with Gotham Acoustic | Novice OTB | Beginner OTB | Intermediate/Adv. OTB | |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Registration & Welcome to The North Carolina Banjo Clinic | |||||||||
| S1 | 9:00-10:15 | OTB & BGB Basic Banjo Maintenance - changing strings, adjusting the bridge, head, cleaning, picks, capos, etc. | Find the melody and build a banjo solo around it | Using Keith Tuners: (Flint Hill Special) | Beginner, Intermediate, Old Time Jam Class | (See Novice BGB) | Establishing Proper RH technique | 20 Traditional OTB Tunings | ||
| S2 | 10:30-12:00 | Novice Class | Chord progressions up the neck & their relationship to each other | Continue building a solo around the melody | Song Study: New York Chimes & Salty Dog Blues | Beginner, Intermediate, Old Time Jam Class | Novice Class | Song Study: Learn some new tunes | Songs and banjo style of Dock Boggs | |
| Lunch | 12:00-1:30 | Break for lunch or jam | ||||||||
| S3 | 1:30-2:45 | Novice class continues | Song Study: Old Joe Clark | Joint Session: Integrating Scruggs & Melodic banjo. | Beginner, Intermediate, Old Time Jam Class | Novice class continues | Beginner Clawhammer | Ed Haley fiddle tunes | ||
| S4 | 3:00-4:30 | Novice class continues | Playing the melody/ playing the syllables | Song Study: Dueling Banjos - Deliverance style | Essential theory: Circle of Fifth's | Special Studies | Novice class continues | Jamming! Continue with new tunes | Kentucky Fiddle Tunes | |
| 4:30-7:30 | Dinner & Jam | |||||||||
| Dinner | 7:30-8:30 | Faculty Concert | ||||||||
| 8:30-11:00 | Open Jamming | |||||||||
2011 Sunday Banjo Class Schedule
(Class content is subject to change.)
| Sunday 7/31 | ||||||||||
| Session | Bluegrass Banjo | Bluegrass & Clawhammer | Clawhammer Banjo | |||||||
| No. | Time | Novice Scruggs | Beginner Scruggs | Intermediate Scruggs (multiple styles) | Advanced Scruggs (multiple styles) | Special topics | Novice OTB | Beginner OTB | Intermediate/Adv. OTB | |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Registration & Welcome to The North Carolina Banjo Clinic | |||||||||
| SU1 | 9:00-10:15 | Novice class continues | Beginner class continues | Lead ins and endings | Melodic banjo basics | Bluegrass banjo to clawhammer crossover class | Novice class continues | Establishing Proper RH technique | Songs and banjo style of Clarence Ashley | |
| SU2 | 10:30-12:00 | Novice class continues | Basic Scruggs licks | Advanced Scruggs licks | Circle of fifths | Special Studies | Novice class continues | Song Study: Learn some new tunes | Old-time finger-picking styles | |
| Lunch | 12:00-1:30 | Break for lunch or jam | ||||||||
| SU3 | 1:30-2:45 | Novice class continues | Improving your tone | Joint Session: Keith and Weissberg | Special Studies | Novice class continues | Beginner Clawhammer | West Virginia fiddle tunes | ||
| SU4 | 3:00-4:30 | Novice class continues | Overcoming issues with tab | Melodic fiddle tunes | Putting the Circle of Fifth's to work | Special Studies | Novice class continues | Jamming! Continue with new tunes | "Taterpatch" - A Round Peak classic | |
| 4:30 | Metro Banjo Close Out | |||||||||
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