Jayme Stone - Posted - 10/19/2009:  15:37:41

i am now offering one-on-one lessons via skype. all you need is a webcam and high speed internet. i can design lessons to address anything you'd like and can also suggest avenues to explore. tablature and transcriptions are included. examples of lesson topics include:

fiddle tune backup
scruggs style
single string techniques
arranging
improvising
enhancing practice
scales and modes
melodic patterns
arpeggios
phrasing
playing in different keys
john hartford's "slidewhistle" chromatic approach
béla fleck techniques
fiddlistic ideas on the banjo
ergonomics
african music
etcetera

i charge $50 for an hour's lesson and $180 for four prepaid. please visit my website to listen and learn more about my music and let me know if you have any questions.

jayme@jaymestone.com
www.jaymestone.com
www.woodhallmusic.com

Jayme Stone keeps an ear to the ground. His curiosity and unlikely set of reference points started early with the quirky physics of the banjo, led to a mysterious librarian who stocked his local public library with a vast trove of banjo recordings, and landed him long-lasting lessons with a series of maestros, from Béla Fleck to Bill Frisell. Influenced by Japanese poetry and Brazilian literature and featuring what he calls a “tiny symphony that takes place inside an imaginary light bulb”, Stone’s album, The Utmost, won the 2008 Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year.

The most recent chapter in Stone’s musical travelogue takes place in Africa. He went knowing what’s still news to most: that the hide-covered instrument with an “extra” drone string we call the banjo actually comes from West Africa. He became particularly curious about the music that may not have made it across the ocean on slave ships headed west from Senegal and Mali in the 1700-1800’s. An eight-week trip to Mali was supported by a prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowship and found Stone sitting in with Toumani Diabate and the Symmetric Orchestra in downtown Bamako, lost in circles of Wassoulou polyrhythms and in a rural Dogon village with no electricity where he inadvertently discovered a banjo predecessor unheard of in the West. The resulting album, Africa to Appalachia, is a boundary-crossing musical collaboration with singer and kora maestro Mansa Sissoko. Produced by David Travers-Smith and featuring celebrated ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate, the recording won the 2009 Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year.

Stone is beginning work on a new project that will explore music based on folk dances from around the world: hornpipes, polskas, straphspeys and sambas from Sweden, Scotland, Brazil, North America and more. The album will be released in late 2010 and feature fiddle pioneer Casey Driessen, gravity-defying guitarist Grant Gordy and Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis.

"An intent focus on all aspects of music one of the most open-minded banjoists around."
BANJO NEWS

"The spark in his expressions communicates a deep commitment to the music."
BLUEGRASS UNLIMITED

"Stone combines a jazz musician's sense of timing and sureness of touch with a pop musician's brevity and directness."
THE GUARDIAN

"Stone is the consummate team player... always right in the middle with his polished, inventive banjo playing."
DOWNBEAT

"What roots/jazz banjo virtuoso Jayme Stone doesn't know about his instrument probably isn't worth knowing."
TORONTO STAR

Edited by - Jayme Stone on 10/22/2009 08:07:09

edsnyder - Posted - 10/22/2009:  08:29:55

I can attest to Jayme's skill as both a player and teacher, and a nice man to boot. If you go for this offer it will be time and money well spent.

Ed e

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever!