I've been ruminating about this one. I've never really perused the agendas for Monroe Camp before, but I am curious about them, so I guess I'll just sort of ramble on about what I'd like or expect in a multi-day workshop about Bill Monroe primarily targeted at mandolinists with some "name" faculty. I've always wanted to go to something like this but there's always something in the way. Some of this stuff I'm sure has been covered, but I'm just sort of brainstorming for my own amusement and if there's one or two ideas here worth something, all right.
They are in no particular order and they are given without regard to feasibility. leading or "carrying" the band with a mando interacting with a fiddle playing and deconstructing the melody accompanying soloists (like to see some hot fiddle and banjo faculty here) playing and singing/accompanying another singer singing lead and tenor playing dance music (uh, old-time country dance music) playing with a mic country blues--history, theory, some jamming, a guitar based class for mandolinists scotch-irish music--history, theory, some jamming, a fiddle based class for mandolinists western swing--see above The style today--Compton on EC and the Sugarcanes And tho I don't think WSM ever did it, I'd like to see a mainenance class, including how to do your own set ups and fret dressings And I guess I'd expect to have to know some particular tunes before I got there, just so we all could talk about common ground. I don't know what they'd be, but I think MP3s and .pdfs of notes/tabs on a websidte accessable to students before the workshop would be awesome, so everybody knows what "roanoke" is and sort of how to play it, for example. here's some stuff where the mando stays in its case bagpipe concert old time dance w/lessons (preferably night before the class on playing hornpipes, breakdowns, schoettishes, etc) country blues show Monroe storytime, hosted by Bluegrass Boys and friends. History of Rosine, KY; southern migration north and subsequent economic developments; history of Nashville music scene A Stetson vedor! Country cooking primer And this one's just for me--balancing your mandolin and your chickens, or the value of hard work on the land. Well this was fun. Won't see you in Sept. I expect but I'll be interested in the reports. erik On Mar 5, 5:58 pm, Mando Chef <[email protected]> wrote: > right hand, right hand, right hand... > this triplet stuff as in this video at about 3:20 Mike blazes down > just before getting to the triplet line we all do in this > tune...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl811xQI43c > How to truly break a tune down by ear! when I attack a tune by ear I > get a feel of the tune... I don't get the exact notes. > Abosolutely the rhythm stuff... there is this video > -http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=... > to show "Tater rhythm" > > Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
