Banjo Newsletter columns!
2011
- 1-11 Tough Love for a Struggling Picker; Playing the Words of Wichita Lineman - PDF
- 2-11 Advice to Non-Singing Banjo player - PDF
- 3-11 The Groove, Jam Classes, Skin - PDF
- 5-11 “I Am 54 But...”, Drum Machine Report - PDF
- 6-11 Jam Skills Checklist; Flag Day Banjo Op; Remembering Carlton Haney - PDF
- 7-11 Banjo Bullies Needn't Peel Paint and Other Jam Etiquette Issues - PDF
- 8-11 Bill Monroe Centennial and Why to Get There Early - PDF
- 9-11 Bill Monroe and the Banjo - PDF
- 10-11 Jonny Mizzone: Now No One Can Complain About Their “Small Hands” - PDF
- 11-11 It’s About Fun and Results... As Soon As Possible: Recommendations from a Lifetime of Banjo Teaching - PDF
2010
- 1-10 Let's Talk About the Key of D, and Comfort Zone - PDF
- 3-10 Beginner Banjo Advice and Good Tone - PDF
- 4-10 Tune It Or Die - PDF
- 5-10 How to Spend the Least Amount of Time Tuning (and be in tune) - PDF
- 6-10 Secrets - (Shhh, don't tell!) Hearing the tune in a tab, and the "Secret Sauce" of the Pro Sound - PDF
- 8-10 The "Pro Sound" - What Is It, and How Do You Get it? - PDF
- 9-10 Jam Class Teacher Network Starting; My Take on Tab/Rote Learning - PDF
- 10-10 Rekindling the Hot Rize Fire; Bulletproofing Your Solos; Rhythm Machine vs. Metronome - PDF
- 11-10 Finding the Melody Using Chords and Your Voice; Finding Chords Using the Melody; Cleaner Bar Chords - PDF
- 12-10 Hot Rize and Wichita Lineman, Still on the Line - PDF
2009
- 1-09 The Year of Good Tone - PDF
- 2-09 Jam Etiquette re Breaks, and Choices in Recording Banjo - PDF
- 3-09 Steve Martin and Ambassadors of the Banjo: "I've always loved the sound of a banjo." - PDF
- 6-09 Let's Get This Straight: Controversial Topics: Two-finger plant? Metronome? 2-4 slide? Syncopation? - PDF
- 7-09 Breaking News! Banjo Goes Mass Media, Media Go Buggy Over Steve Martin - PDF
- 8-09 The Pleasures, Perks, and Lessons of Busking - PDF
- 9-09 Music for the Masses - PDF
- 10-09 Not Clutching at Jams - PDF
- 11-09 Hot Rize for Public Consumption - PDF
- 12-09 Get Out of the Rut - PDF
2008
- 1-08 Breaking out of the Intermediate rut, and Learning to play in D - PDF - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4
- 3-08 Advice to a young player; Changing chords faster - PDF - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5
- 4-08 Stepping into a group - PDF - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
- 5-08 Banjo Claus Spotted in Eastern Kentucky - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 7-08 Ten repertoires - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 8-08 A jam skill you can use: Hearing chord changes - PDF - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4
- 9-08 "Can't find people to jam?" - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 10-08 Getting away from strict memorizing and creating your own solos - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 11-08 Productive practicing - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 12-08 Back to basics: Are you a successful musician? and Pick noise - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
2007
- 1-07 The loop exercise method for fast progress - PDF - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4
- 2-07 Prucha's Elban, and playing plugged-in banjo - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 3-07 Find a lead singer; backup video; the prewar sound - PDF - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
- 4-07 Tough banjo love result: "My breaks are mine." - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 6-07 End "thwonging" thumb pick; new Flexigrass CD - PDF - Page 1
- 7-07 Work less on instrumentals, more on singing? Year of the melody - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 9-07 Sound bites from Hollywood and West Virginia - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 10-07 Teachers: help your students more with DVDs - PDF - Page 1, Page 2
- 12-07 Jamming fundamentals; chord changing made easy - PDF - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
