Cameron DeWhitt Clawhammer Banjo Workshop: Anticipated Notes and Ghost Strokes

Adult Group Class / Banjo Program

Beginning a melody a half beat before it's expected can add forward motion to your playing, and those anticipated notes need the space of a ghost stroke to make their full impact. In this workshop you'll learn basic exercises to build muscle memory for these techniques and apply them to a well known tune. Let the syncopation begin!

Cameron DeWhitt is a clawhammer banjoist and Old Time musician living in Portland, Oregon. He hosts the weekly podcast Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends, which features conversations and musical collaborations with today’s most influential traditional musicians, like Jake Blount, Paul Brown, Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones, Gailanne Amundsen, John Reischman, Ken Perlman, Adam Hurt, and Spencer & Rains. As an interviewer, Cameron balances an effusive curiosity for the potential of traditional music with a dogged respect for its origins. Serving as audience surrogate, Cameron asks illuminating questions to Old Time's best and brightest while telling the larger story of the tradition's modern era. And with over 100 episodes released and no signs of slowing, Get Up in the Cool is quickly becoming one of the largest available archives of new Old Time recordings.

http://www.camerondewhitt.com/

Grouped with: Clawhammer / Country & Traditional / Folk / Musicianship / Old Time