Skill level for Claw-hammer style
5-string banjo:
All students should be aged 12 to adult.
All skill levels welcome: beginners and experienced players.
Take part in guided or independent jam sessions!
Our curriculum includes:
- basic “clawhammer” or “frailing” technique
- old-time dance tune repertoire
- playing with fiddlers
- more advanced techniques, including drop-thumbing, 5th string fretting, and melodic style.
Guitar players can join in the fun in various ways:
Learn to play or develop skill you already have!
Guitar-only groups for instruction!
Jamming--guided jams and independent jams!
You could join Rock Band activities in the afternoon!
We will present intensive guitar workshops
in a number of different styles, designed around
campers’ musical interests.
- Learn accompaniment patterns in various styles
- Fingerpicking patterns
- Flat-picking, bluegrass
- Blues, Jazz, and Swing styles
- Improvisation
Skill level for beginning "Guitar Ground Zero":
This is offered for adults only. You don't have to know anything, but should bring your own guitar.
We'll get you ready to play at least one tune with a fiddle player by the end of the week!
Skill level for continung Guitar:
Level 1: advanced beginner (know a few chords, able to keep a steady rhythm)
Level 2: intermediate-to-advanced (be able to play smoothly with other musicians in some style)
Level 3: Flatpicking & advanced techniques