Welcome to Banjo Sessions! - February 2006

A Bimonthly Webzine

Welcome to the February 2006 Banjo Sessions®! This issue features Mike Keyes teaching you how to play in an Irish session. Ned Luberecki demonstrates how to include the melody in a three finger break, Twain Berg interviews John Balch, a great frailing banjo player. I show you all the chords your really need to know to be in a Bluegrass band...

The upcoming issues will include 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 - The Only Three Chord Forms You Really Need To Know To Play In a Bluegrass Band...
  • Twain Berg - John Balch and The Artistry of the Clawhammer Banjo
  • Michael Keyes - Playing in Sessions
  • Ned Luberecki - Putting Melody In Your Solos


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