Patek style tenor banjo
Fingerpicking and frailing in DGdg tuning
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My articles in Mel Bay's Banjo Sessions
Thanks to Gerald Jones, the editor of Mel Bay's discontinued Banjo Sessions webzine, who accepted my articles for on-line publication. The pdf files are listed here chronologically:
- Dec 2009 - intro to bluegrass, clawhammer and Keith melodic style
- Feb 2010 - pinch+frail style, sort of clawhammer with bass
- Apr 2010 - Travis picking
- Jun 2010 - bluegrass rolls
- Aug 2010 - detailed clawhammer/frailing tutorial
- Oct 2010 - bluegrass licks
- Dec 2010 - syncopation of chord-melody over steady thumb
- Feb 2011 - playing in octaves
- Apr 2011 - Cumberland Gap in two-finger and three-finger picking
- Jun 2011 - chords in simple boom-chick pattern
- Aug 2011 - cut and strike in Irish & Celtic banjo
- Oct 2011 - Boil Them Cabbage Down played in up-the-neck doublestops
- Dec 2011 - Jerry Reed style pinches in Travis picking
- Feb 2012 - Play Tomorrow Morning in all twelve keys (submitted for publication, unpublished due to the end of Banjo Sessions project)