Teaching Materials
Guitar
Firstly, I gave a lesson in rhythm playing in bluegrass and swing styles at Telfest in 2004.Acoustic Guitar Rhythm Styles This was based upon (not wholly) the workshop that I did the year before.
Swing Backup for Bluegrass Guitarists
Although learning a pile of licks is good to fit into songs here are some basic principles of making up your own licks using cross picking and sequences. Some tab in various formats
Sequences and Cross Picking Pat.pdf
Sequences and Cross Picking Patterns.gp3
Finally, i did some pointers to general playing etiquette in bluegrass jams for the Snowdonia weekend. Jam Etiquette
Bluegrass Banjo
This page has a number of banjo tabs in gp3 (guitar pro) format and pdf.I have just added tabledit (tef) files. This is because you can now get a free tabledit viewer from www.tabledit.com.
| Buffalo Girls | Buffalo Girls.pdf | buggals.gp3 | bufgals.tef |
| Cripple Creek | Cripple Creek.pdf | cripplecreek.gp3 | cripplecreek.tef |
| Dixie Hoedown | Dixie Hoedown.pdf | dixiehoedown.gp3 | dixiehoedown.tef |
| Fireball Mail | Fireball Mail.pdf | fireball.gp3 | fireball.tef |
| FMB | Foggy Mountain Breakdown.pdf | foggy.gp3 | foggy.tef |
| Goldrush | Goldrush.pdf | goldrushbqnj.gp3 | goldrush.tef |
| Jesse James | Jesse James.pdf | jesse.gp3 | jesse.tef |
| OJC | Old Joe Clark.pdf | oldjoeclark.gp3 | oldjoeclark.tef |
| Roll in my sweet babys arms | Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms.pdf | roll.gp3 | roll.tef |
| turkey in the straw | Turkey in the Straw.pdf | turkey.gp3 | turkey.tef |
| Over the waterfall | overthewaterfall.tef |
| Ending licks | Banjo_ending_1.tef |
| Banjo_ending_2.tef | |
| Banjo_ending_3.tef | |
| Banjo_ending_4.tef | |
| Choking Lick | choking lick.tef |
Recordings
This is an original tune called touchy. Its in mp3 format and is about 3.5Mb.
Also, I have just finished a creative technology music masters course at Bath Spa. This track is an example of my work on this course that combines acoustic and electronic genres.
I very recently got kidnapped by aliens and have written a ska punk song about the experience