Sundays, 5:00-6:30 pm, 3/29 through 5/3
$140.00 advance / $150.00 after March 2, $27 drop-in
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Welcome to Old Time Stringband Music Class!  This class is for the guitar, fiddle and clawhammer banjo player who has been playing on an instrument for a while,  and who is ready to play in a stringband setting.  If you are comfortable learning tunes by ear, and want to meet other musicians and learn more about traditional old time southern tunes, this is the class for you.

In these 6 weeks, we will focus on 4 or 5 new tunes.  The fiddles are considered the lead instrument in this music and will focus on melodies and bowing rhythms in standard and other old time tunings such as "cross" and "high bass". Guitars will focus on rhythm accompaniment and bass runs in the popular keys of G, C, A and D. Banjos will play clawhammer, both melodies and rhythm in these different tunings.

 Students will have access to our google site so that you can listen to the tunes before we teach them.  Each week  we will spend a portion of the class listening/singing the tune of the week, then divided into groups by instrument to play the tune, and then reunited to play as a large orchestra or in smaller groups.   Most of the tunes we study will be instrumental "fiddle tunes", but we always try to choose some tunes that have words and/or a waltz or song and harmony singing parts.  The last class of the session will be a 3 hour pot-luck and tunes party (4-7pm), location TBD.  Please join us! And if you have any questions please e-mail us at yallegra@hotmail.com.