Clawhammer Banjo - Workshops with Adam Hurt
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps
A Survey of Round Peak Banjo Styles
Mondays starting April 1st, 2024 (skipping the 3rd Monday in April)
4/1, 4/8, 4/22, 4/29
7:30pm Central

You do not need to attend the workshops live. Everyone who registers gets the recordings and supplemental materials.
We will confirm your registration as soon as possible once you register - if your PayPal email address does not match the address you use for correspondence, please send a separate email to fiddlestar33@gmail.com to let us know.

Here's what Adam had to say about this upcoming workshop series...

Join us for an intermediate-level survey of Round Peak clawhammer banjo styles! Together we will learn representative arrangements from the best-known musicians associated with this storied North Carolina musical community: “Cripple Creek,” “Ducks on the Millpond,” and “John Henry” from Tommy Jarrell; “Liberty,” “Sail Away Ladies,” and “Western County” from Kyle Creed, and “Old Bunch of Keys” and “Roustabout” from Fred Cockerham. Beyond being a fun collection of tunes for participants to enjoy playing, this mixture of material will provide a good overview of the Round Peak banjo tradition and a tool kit of interesting and useful techniques that can be used to enhance any tune from any tradition.

The classes will be taught completely by ear with clear demonstration by me and much repetition as a group. Tablature will be provided as a memory aid, but not until AFTER each class session has finished. Not used to learning by ear? Have no fear! I break tunes into manageable-length segments for clean rhythmic looping, isolating unique content. This approach enables us to focus on the material that truly matters and is the most challenging, while bypassing any sections of music that are recycled from elsewhere. We will move slowly and cover all important left- and right-hand behavior so that nothing is left to chance. Since videos from the Zoom sessions will be made available to all participants, you can go back over anything that was out of reach when presented in real-time—again and again, without the pressure of having to “master” material by the time that each class session ends.

In order to get the most out of this workshop series, I recommend that all participants have a solid command of the fundamentals of the clawhammer style, including drop-thumbing, as we will not be reworking basic technique. I will teach with a steel-strung fretted banjo, but the material is very fretless banjo-friendly, so participants may feel free to use either type of banjo. We will be using multiple tunings to match the fiddle's typical key for each tune covered, so facility with more than one tuning is imperative for all participants, as is a willingness to either capo at the second fret or tune the entire banjo up to the equivalent of capoing at the second fret for tunes played in the higher keys. Each class session will last for roughly 75 minutes, and participants will be muted for the entire period, the better for everyone to feel comfortable playing along with me and trying new things.

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You do not need to attend the workshops live. Everyone who registers gets the recordings and supplemental materials.
We will confirm your registration as soon as possible once you register - if your PayPal email address does not match the address you use for correspondence, please send a separate email to fiddlestar33@gmail.com to let us know.

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