Cameron DeWhitt Clawhammer Banjo Workshop: Slides From Every Angle

Adult Group Class / Banjo Program

The slide is one of the most powerful tools in a clawhammer player's toolbox—it helps with switching positions, gesturing at melodic passages, and adding swagger to forgettable moments in a tune. In this workshop we'll practice drop thumb slides, lazy slides, and melodic slides, then add slides to a well known tune.

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