2010 Friday Banjo Class Schedule
| Friday 7/30 | ||||||||||
| Session | Bluegrass Banjo | Old Time Banjo | ||||||||
| No. | Time | Novice Scruggs | Beginner Scruggs | Intermediate Scruggs (multiple styles) | Advanced Scruggs (multiple styles) | Special BGB | open | BGB Setup | Beginner OTB | Intermediate OTB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration & Welcome to The North Carolina Banjo Clinic | |||||||||
| F1 | 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) | Transferring Bill Monroe's mandolin style to the banjo | open | Reserved for BGB Setup | (See Novice BGB) | Establishing Proper RH technique | |
| F2 | 10:30-12:00 | Wearing picks, RH anchoring, holding the banjo, how to chord | 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 | open | open | Reserved for BGB Setup | Basic right & left-hand techniques | Song Study: Learn some new tunes |
| Lunch | 12:00-1:30 | Break for lunch or jam | ||||||||
| F3 | 1:30-2:45 | RH rolls & beginner chords | Song Study: Old Joe Clark | Joint Session: Integrating Scruggs & Melodic banjo. | open | open | Reserved for BGB Setup | Beginner Clawhammer | Continue with new tunes | |
| F4 | 3:00-4:30 | Combining rolls & chords | Playing the melody/ playing the syllables | Song Study: Dueling Banjos - Deliverance style | Essential theory: Circle of Fifth's | open | open | Reserved for BGB Setup | Beginner Clawhammer continued | Jamming! Continue with new tunes |
| 4:30-7:30 | Dinner & Jam | |||||||||
| Dinner | 7:30-8:30 | Faculty Concert | ||||||||
| 8:30-11:00 | Open Jamming | |||||||||
2010 Saturday Banjo Class Schedule
| Saturday 7/31 | ||||||||||
| Session | Bluegrass Banjo | Old Time Banjo | ||||||||
| No. | Time | Novice Scruggs | Beginner Scruggs | Intermediate Scruggs (multiple styles) | Advanced Scruggs (multiple styles) | Special BGB | open | BGB Setup | Beginner OTB | Intermediate OTB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration | |||||||||
| S1 | 9:00-10:15 | Slides, hammer ons & pull offs | Joint Session: Playing with others. Jamming skills & basic backup | Melodic Banjo basics | Song Study: Turkey in the straw, Red-haired boy, Monroe's Hornpipe | open | Bluegrass Banjo Setup | Beginner Clawhammer continued | Drop thumb technique | |
| S2 | 10:30-11:45 | Prepare to learn: You Are My Sunshine | Basic Scruggs licks | Laying down solid lead-ins & endings | Joint Session: Put some blues into your playing. | open | Bluegrass Banjo Setup | Joint Session: Essentials of jamming & playing with others | ||
| 11:45-12:00 | Take Clinic Photos | |||||||||
| Lunch | 12:00-1:30 | Break for lunch or jam | ||||||||
| S3 | 1:30-2:45 | Song Study: You Are My Sunshine | Improve your tone | Song Study: No Title Yet Blues | Joint Session: Twin/harmony banjo | open | Bluegrass Banjo Setup | Easy Clawhammer Tunes | Advanced Clawhammer techniques | |
| S4 | 3:00-4:30 | Continue You Are My Sunshine | Maximize your use of tablature | Advanced Scruggs backup | Melodics & fiddle tunes | Song Study: Sally Goodin | open | Bluegrass Banjo Setup | East Clawhammer tunes continued | Advanced tricks & turns |
| 4:30-7:30 | Dinner & Jam | |||||||||
| 7:30-10:00 | Saturday Night Concert: Bill Keith's Band: "The Saturday Night Bluegrass Band" plus Special Guests | |||||||||
| 10:00- | Post-Concert Jam | |||||||||
2010 Sunday Banjo Class Schedule
| Sunday 8/1 | ||||||||||
| Session | Bluegrass Banjo | Old Time Banjo | ||||||||
| No. | Time | Novice Scruggs | Beginner Scruggs | Intermediate Scruggs (multiple styles) | Advanced Scruggs (multiple styles) | Special BGB | open | BGB Setup | Beginner OTB | Intermediate OTB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration | |||||||||
| S1 | 9:00-10:00 | Brush up on You Are My Sunshine | Song Study: Lonesome Road Blues | Joint Session: Improvisation | Learn the fingerboard in D: This Land is Your Land | open | open | Clawhammer theory | Explore tunings | |
| S2 | 10:15-11:15 | Closing instruction: Practice techniques, building speed, open Q@A | Basics of Single String banjo | Song Study: Riding the Waves. Lessons in open D | Learn the basics of banjo setup: | open | open | Closing instruction, practice techniques & Q@A | ||
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