Mel Bay's Banjo Sessions®

Welcome to Banjo Sessions! - December 2005

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Welcome to the December 2005 Banjo Sessions®! This issue features Mike Keyes demonstrating triplets on Irish Tenor with an added bonus of Mick Maloney. Chris Smith teaches the set dance Princess Royal on Irish Tenor. Since it’s Christmas time I arranged Silent Night for the three finger banjo.

The upcoming issues will include Ned Luberecki showing you how to construct a Bluegrass roll break incorporating the melody. We will also have the Year of Jubilo in clawhammer style by Wayne Shrubsall and how to play Tenor banjo by Joe Carr from his upcoming DVD, First Lessons in Tenor Banjo. I’ll also so you the secret tricks to surviving in a Bluegrass jam... and more!

If you have any suggestions for articles you’d like to see, please email me at gerald@AcousticMusician.com

Let’s pick!

– Gerald Jones

Gerald Jones - Silent Night
Chris Smith – The Princess Royal
Michael Keyes - How to Play Triplets

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