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Mars Hill Old-TIme Banjo

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For students, teachers, alumni, and anyone else interested in banjo at Mars Hill Blue Ridge Old-Time Music Week

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From ChuckJo on 3/8/2012 7:44:41 AM

Hi Friends,

hope you are all doing great and leading tuneful lives.

I am very pleased to announce that I have been added to the faculty of Mars Hill for 2012. If you haven't signed up again, and could stand another week with me, I would love to have you.

It has been a rich year for me musically. I am eager to meet a new class, to share and explore together.

Here is the class description:

This class is designed to expand repertoire and technique, with attention to accompaniment to fiddle tunes, distinct banjo tunes, and also songs. We will explore how to create rhythmic and melodic variations, how to breakdown and build up tunes, and how to match fiddle dynamics on the banjo, and how to play with another banjoist. We will visit the diverse styles of masters such as Ola Belle Reed, George Gibson, Lee Hammons, Fred Cockerham and Loudon Wainwright III. Other topics will include tunes in less common tunings and keys, two-finger up-picking, and how minstrel and African down-stroke techniques and fretless banjo techniques inform clawhammer choices. Finally, we will look at how different banjos and banjo set-ups produced different voices. This class will be taught primarily by ear; audio and video recording are highly recommended. However, tablature will be available for most of what we cover as well. On occasion, some video and audio files may be referenced, and may be available to those who bring laptops or jump drives. Learn more about Chuck and his music at www.banjourneys.com or email him at levyce@aol.com .

5 Comments
	Hilarie Burhans says: 3/8/2012 12:14:35 PM Hey, I'm jealous! Try to have fun without me ;-)
	ChuckJo says: 3/8/2012 1:03:41 PM Hi Hilarie, How are you? It won't be easy without you. I thought we were a great pair.
	Hilarie Burhans says: 3/8/2012 5:58:14 PM I'll be teaching Intermediate Banjo at Augusta this summer, directly after Clifftop. How 'bout you drag your butt to Clifftop for once?
	ChuckJo says: 3/8/2012 6:18:54 PM Congratulations!!! I would like to make it up to Clifftop. Do you need a fiddler for your banjo class? I have been working on Half Past Four...
	Hilarie Burhans says: 3/8/2012 6:28:11 PM Actually I'm totally in love with all the tunes on Mark Tamsula's cd Up in the Batten House, and I think I'm going to teach a bunch of those tunes/versions; they're all from the Samuel Bayard collection. Do you have the CD? it's a good 'un.
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