Playing Since: 1968
Experience Level: Purty Good
Occupation: public school music teacher
Gender: Male
Age: 69
My Instruments:
My own, fretted and fretless.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Roscoe Hocomb, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Ralph Stanley, Earl Scruggs
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Created 4/6/2009
Last Visit 12/11/2017
I'm in my 3rd year as a general music teacher in Prescott Valley, Arizona, grades K-5th; before that I taught 6 years in Utica, NY. I try to teach the elements of music and the state and national standards for music, by having my students produce music in several world music ensembles: African drumming, Afro-Caribbean marimba band, Balinesse gamelan, American Indian flutes rattles and drums, fife and drum corps, Appalachian dulcimers, and baritone ukuleles (the strings= the first four on a guitar). I make most of the instruments we use in the classroom.
I love all kinds of banjo picking, but only play two finger thumb lead really well; also a little clawhammer.
'Banjo Challenges' 2 hrs
'Dennis Murphy's Polka' 7 hrs
