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Playing Since: 1971
Experience Level: Purty Good
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: Retired attorney
Gender: Male
Age: 74
My Instruments:
Stelling, Lane, Gold Tone, Ibanez, Goodtime
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
JD, Earl, Hickman, Osborne, Trischka
Early Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene, New South, Gibson Bros., Nickle Creek, Rhonda
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Created 3/16/2008
Last Visit 3/22/2013
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 @1:47:54 PM
Every banjo instructor I have had the opportunity to meet -- Trischka, Wernick, Adams, Munford, Shean, Evans, Gitlin, Hatfield, J. Davis, G. Davis, Collins --and many others -- say jamming is the best way to learn. So . . . Why are students of the banjo so reluctant to show up at a jam? I remember chatting with Ben Eldrige at Gettysburg burg years ago. Yes, I had an agenda. I wanted to see him up close picking a particular downhill sequence. Ben took me aside and showed me the licks. The point: THAT is a characteristic of most banjo pickets. They are willing to take the time to help the newbies.
At a jam you have not only a chance to improve you timing, learn some new tunes, meet some other pickets (not just of banjo), but you get to choose a momentary teacher!
So do not turn down an invitation to a jam -- nay, get onine and find a jam. Hey are all over the place. Go to a festival! You will have a chance to jam (if only on the periphery) every day (and night).
Do it!!
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