If you live in the Phoenix Arizona Metro area, Joe gives lessons on the following:

• Guitar ( Fingerstyle and Flatpick, no rock )
• Slack-Key Hawaiian Guitar / Dobro / Lap Steel
• Advanced 12-string guitar Styles
• Banjo (5-string [ Clawhammer and basic Scruggs ], Tenor and Plectrum )
• Basic Mandolin ( all forms )
• Medieval Celtic Harp
• Basic Elizabethan Lute
• Appalachian Dulcimer
• Basic Folk and Country Electric Bass
• Autoharp ( Stoneman/Carter style )
• Ukelele ( ukulele )
• Basic Sitar
• Performance presentation and musical arrangement of acoustic music and songs
• Other stringed/fretted instruments and acoustic styles by special arrangement;
• No Fiddle, Bagpipes or Pedal Steel
  

Joe teaches Monday thru Thursday from 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm at

Boogie Music,
3552 W. Cactus Rd,
Phoenix AZ, 85029,
(602) 978-6688.

Terms: One one-half hour lesson per week, $90.00 per month payable monthly in advance, on the first week of the month .... and if the month has five lessons in it, you get the fifth one FREE! NO CHECKS ACCEPTED. No reading of music is required, and no students under 12 are taken, unless by special arrangement.

24 hours notice is required to miss a lesson, or you pay for it anyway.

If you miss two lessons in a row without contacting me you will be dropped from the roster.

Effective 18 April, 2003: If you sign up for lessons, pre-paid or not, and do not show up for the first lesson, and do not contact me within 24 hours before or after, you will be dropped immediately.

Philosophy: The initial lessons will concentrate on the proper forming of chords, and the mechanics of right and left hand movements, with concentrated practice required until these basic steps are mastered.

Ear training is essential, as NO formal music reading is taught. Theory / tablature will be taught as it applies to the particular instrument, style and individual needs of the student.

The "How" of playing is emphasized rather than the "What," and independent study and creativity are strongly emphasized. Self-motivation is a plus.

Books: We don' use no steeenking books. Unless you want to.

Tablature: We don' use no steeenking tablature. Unless you want to.

Now, if you want to learn banjo, go download and print out this. Read it. Read it again.

Interested? Send

Or call Boogie Music (602) 978-6688 to schedule your lessons.

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DA ROOLZ

1. If it works, it's real.
2. Do, or do not. "Try" is a null-word.
3. We "play" music, not "work" music. Have fun!

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GOOD GUITAR PLAYING & MAINTENANCE TIPS

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GOOD LINKS FOR STUDENTS

Makers Thornburg Gourd Banjos Ome Banjos Tyger Banjos GoldTone Banjos Deering Banjo Company Wunder Banjo Co.

Players David Holt About Joe Tablature How to Read Banjo Tablature EZ-Folk.com Banjo Tablature Soldier's Joy tablature Students & Former Students Colleen Politi Dave Barnhart John Gentile Jim Saylor Stores Boogie Music Tucson Folk Shop Prescott Folklore Center Elderly Instruments! Mandolin Brothers Janet Davis Music McCabe's Guitar Shop Stuff What Kind Of Banjo Is It? Mugwumps History Banjo Newsletter Four String Banjo Links Gig Bags Colorado Case Company PRO TEC International Reunion Blues

The banjo player here is Mr. Fred Coon, who is NOT playing Clawhammer style. It sounds like it, but the technique is completely different. This is a good example of "If it works, it's real!" Filmed at the Sharlott Hall Folk Festival in Prescott, AZ.

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Stuff You Need To Know

• A List Of Banjo Tunings
• The Book Of Five Strings
• The How And The Tao Of Old Time Banjo
• Banjo tunes to learn! (MIDI and MP3)
  
• How To Re-String A Banjo

For more MIDI tunes, go to the Old Time Music Midi Archive

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CHORD TRANSPOSITION CHART
Chords can be classified into GENERIC names:

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I II III IV V VI VII denoting MAJOR chords

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i ii iii iv v vi vii denoting MINOR chords

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KEY CHORD	2 frets from I	2 frets from II	1 fret from III	2 frets from IV	2 frets from V	1 fret from VI
	ii relative minor of IV	iii relative minor of V			vi relative minor of I
I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
C	D	E	F	G	A	B flat
D	E	F sharp	G	A	B	C
E	F sharp	G sharp	A	B	C sharp	D
F	G	A	B flat	C	D	E flat
G	A	B	C	D	E	F
A	B	C sharp	D	E	F sharp	G
B	C sharp	D sharp	E	F sharp	G sharp	A

Notice the sharps and flats in there. These are caused by the fact that the modern musical scale is arranged in WHOLE TONES (the Ionian mode) and HALF TONES (sharps and flats). Look at a piano keyboard. The BLACK keys are the sharps and flats. We put a sharp/flat between every whole tone EXCEPT between B - C and E - F. Don't ask me why we do it this way....we just do. Everything comes out even that way. Don't worry about it. And, by the way, a tone may be either sharp, or flat, depending on how you're looking at it....F sharp is the same as G flat, for our purposes, for example.

Interested?

Call Boogie Music (602) 978-6688 to schedule your lessons.