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INTRODUCTION
Course
Concepts
Right-Hemisphere
Learning
Learning Through Mental
Imaging
Developing Speed and
Accuracy
Practice Habits and
Methods
Economy of
Motion
Efficient Memorization
Methods
Reading
Tablature
Note Reading Fundamentals
LESSON ONE - Lower Neck Scruggs Style
Pages 1 -
5:
Arranging
Concepts
Choosing Right-Hand
Patterns
Ornamentation
G
Tuning Neck Positions
Old Time Religion
(standard notation and tablature conversions, basic
and
intermediate
arrangements, backup)
Project: Handsome
Molly (arrange in tablature)
Lesson
Supplement: Worried Man Blues and Sitting On Top of the
World
LESSON TWO - Lower Neck Scruggs Style
Pages 6
-12:
Review of Handsome Molly
(basic and intermediate arrangements, upper
neck
backup)
Tag
Lick Variations
Creating Your Own
Patterns
Song
Hooks
Sharps and Flats and Key
Signatures
Tragic Romance (standard
notation, basic and intermediate
arrangements,
backup/vamping)
Project:
Dark Hollow (arrange in tablature)
LESSON THREE - Lower Neck Scruggs
Style
Pages 13 -
21
Review of Dark Hollow
(basic and intermediate arrangements,
backup)
Key, Chord, and Note
Relationships
Circle of
Fifths
Drop Circle Chord
Progressions
When You and I Were Young,
Maggie (standard notation, basic and
intermediate
arrangements, upper neck
backup/vamping)
Project: Poor Ellen
Smith (work out before writing in tablature)
LESSON FOUR - Lower Neck Scruggs
Style
Pages 22 -
29
Review of Poor Ellen
Smith (intermediate arrangement,
backup)
Circle of Fifths with Minor
Chords
Basic Minor
Chords
Chord Progressions with Minor
Chords
Uses and Movement of 7th
Chords
Worried Man Blues
(arrangement)
This Old Hammer
(arrangement)
Little Maggie in G Minor
Tuning (arrangement)
Pretty Polly in G
Modal Tuning (arrangement)
Movable Chord
Formations
Chromatic
Scale
Railroad Bill
(arrangement)
3/4 Time G Tag
Licks
Arranging Scruggs Style Tunes in 3/4
Time
Knoxville Girl (intermediate
arrangement)
Project: Short Life of
Trouble (arrange in tablature)
LESSON FIVE - Lower Neck Scruggs Style
Pages 30 -
36
Review of Short Life of
Trouble (basic and intermediate arrangements, backup
with three waltz
patterns)
Chord
Inversions
7th Chords in
Backup
Chord
Substitution
5th String
Capoing
Jesse James (G Tuning
arrangement)
John Henry (G Tuning
arrangement)
Introduction to D
Tuning
Jesse James (D Tuning
arrangement)
John Henry (D Tuning
arrangement)
Project: Amazing Grace in
3/4 time (work out before writing in tablature)
LESSON SIX - Lower Neck Scruggs Style and Melodic
Style
Pages 37 -
43
Review of Amazing Grace
(intermediate arrangement, backup)
Scales in
Melodic Style
Fiddle Tune Construction and
History
Fiddle Tune
Backup
Fiddle Tune and Melodic Style Arranging
Concepts
Fisher's Hornpipe (standard
notation, arrangement and backup)
Project:
Arkansas Traveler in Key of G (arrange in Melodic Style)
LESSON SEVEN - Melodic Style
Pages 44 -
52
Review of Arkansas Traveler
(arrangement and backup)
Chord and Note
Transposition
Tuning Concepts and
Considerations
Arkansas Traveler in key
of D (G Tuning arrangement)
Lonesome
Indian in Key of C (G Tuning
arrangement)
Derby Hornpipe in Key of G
(standard notation and G Tuning
arrangement)
Project: Pomona Hornpipe
(transpose from key of D to key of G in standard
notation
and arrange
in tablature)
LESSON EIGHT - Melodic
Style
Pages 53 -
59
Review of Pomona Hornpipe
(arrangement and backup)
Tuning Concepts and
Modifications
Arkansas Traveler - Key of
D arrangement (G tuning with 5th string tuned to
F#)
Creating Chord Progressions for Fiddle
Tunes
Cuckoo's Nest - Key of D
arrangement (G tuning with 5th string tuned to
A)
Morning Fair Hornpipe - Key of D
arrangement (G tuning with 5th string tuned to
F#)
Project: Dundee Hornpipe (transpose
in standard notation from key of G to key of D,
determine 5th string
tuning, create chord progression, and arrange in tablature)
LESSON NINE - Melodic
Style
Pages 60 -
65
Review of Dundee Hornpipe
(Key of D arrangement)
Connelly's Ace
(6/8 time Irish Jig arrangement)
6/8 Time
Backup Patterns
D Tuning Note Positions and
Movable Chord Formations
Ten Penny Money
- Key of D arrangement (Irish jig in 6/8 time; D tuning
with
5th string tuned
to F#)
Admiral's Hornpipe - Key of D
arrangement (D tuning with 5th string tuned to
F#)
Project: Massasoit Hornpipe (arrange
in D tuning, write in tablature)
LESSON TEN - Melodic Style and
Upper Neck Scruggs Style in G Tuning
Pages 66 -
72
Review of Massasoit Hornpipe
(Key of D arrangement)
Transferring Melodies
from Lower to Upper Neck
Position
Playing
Shady Grove (lower and upper
neck arrangements)
Introduction to
Improvisation
Maple on the Hill (upper
neck arrangement)
Project: Poor Ellen
Smith (transfer from lower to upper neck and arrange in tablature)
LESSON ELEVEN - Upper Neck
Scruggs Style in G Tuning
Pages 73 - 79
Review of
Poor Ellen Smith (upper neck
arrangement)
Making Up Your Own Upper Neck
Licks and Phrases
Position
Playing
I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
(upper neck arrangement)
Upper Neck 7th and 9th
Chord Formations
Sitting On Top of the
World (upper neck arrangement)
Scruggs
Style Blues Playing
Nine Pound Hammer
(lower neck arrangement)
Project: Nine Pound
Hammer (transfer from lower to upper neck, arrange in
tablature
utilizing
blues stylings and 7th and 9th chords)
LESSON TWELVE - Upper Neck
Scruggs Style in G Tuning & "BANJOIZING"
Pages 80 -
85
Review of Nine Pound Hammer
(lower and upper neck arrangements, lower and
upper
neck Twin Banjo
arrangements)
Big Ball in Boston (lower
and upper neck arrangements in Ralph Stanley
style)
Down in the Willow Garden (upper
neck arrangement in 3/4 time)
Upper Neck 3/4
Time Backup
Position
Playing
"Banjoizing" and "Fiddlizing"
Bill Cheatham (lower neck "banjoized"
fiddle tune arrangement
Project: New River
Train (create upper neck arrangement with
melody
deviation/improvisation through position playing)
LESSON THIRTEEN - Upper Neck
Scruggs Style, Banjoizing, & Scruggs/Melodic
Style
Pages 86 -
92
Review of New River Train
(upper neck arrangement)
Turkey in the
Straw (upper neck Melodic style arrangement and lower neck
Scruggs/Melodic style
banjoized Twin Banjo arrangement)
Major and
Minor Scales
Key
Signatures
Project: Dusty Miller (create
banjoized tablature arrangement)
LESSON FOURTEEN -
Scruggs/Melodic Style and Improvisation
Pages 93 -
98
Review of Dusty Miller
(Scruggs/Melodic style banjoized
arrangement)
Chord Construction:
Triads
Chord
Inversions
Modifying
Chords
Chord Run
Construction
Chord Runs in Lead and Backup
Melodic Style Fill
Concepts
Cherokee Shuffle (upper and
lower neck Scruggs/Melodic style
arrangement)
Project: Lonesome John in G
Minor Tuning (add melodic fill and create arrangement)
LESSON FIFTEEN - Scruggs/Melodic
Style, Chromatic Style, and Melodic/Chromatic
Style
Pages 99 -
106
Review of Lonesome John
(Scruggs/Melodic style arrangement with
backup)
Chord Construction:
Triads
Scruggs, Melodic, and Chromatic Style
Improvisation
Chord Run Construction in Scruggs
Style, Melodic Style, and Chromatic Style
Scale
Tone Runs, Half-Step Runs, and Flatted 7th
Runs
"Non-Chords" and "Noise" Formations
(scalar forms)
Position Playing in Melodic and
Chromatic Styles
Project: Making Up Your Own
Chord Runs
LESSON SIXTEEN - "Fiddlizing"
and Blues Applications
Pages 107 - 113
Review of
Chord Runs (demonstrations and Circle of Fifths accompaniment
progressions)
"Fiddlizing"
Concepts
When You and I Were Young,
Maggie (upper neck Scruggs/Melodic style
arrangement)
Blues
Concepts
Minor 7th
Scales
Chord Construction: Triads and 4-Note
Chords
I'm Working On a Building
(Scruggs/Melodic style Blues-oriented
arrangement)
Improvisation
Concepts
Chord
Substitution
Project: I Am a Pilgrim
(create upper neck Scruggs/Melodic style Blues arrangement)
LESSON SEVENTEEN - Fiddlizing,
Blues Applications, and Improvisation
Pages 114 -
121
Review of I Am a Pilgrim
(upper neck Scruggs/Melodic style Blues
arrangement)
Diminished 7th and Augmented 7th
Chord Applications
9th, 11th, and 13th Chord
Applications
Synonymous and Partial
Chords
Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales and
Applications
12-Bar
Blues
Altered
Chords
Chord
Substitution
Banjo Rag (Scruggs/Melodic
style arrangement with diminished
chords)
Worried Blues (12-bar Blues
Scruggs/Melodic style arrangement application of minor
7th
and minor
pentatonic scales in D tuning)
Project: This
Old Hammer (create Blues arrangement in key of Em)
LESSON EIGHTEEN - Improvisation
in All Styles
Pages
122 - 128
Review of This Old
Hammer (lower neck Scruggs/Melodic style Blues
arrangement)
Learning from
Recordings
Chord-oriented
Songs
Londonderry Aire (Danny Boy)
(upper neck Chord/Melody arrangement)
Chord
Progression Enhancements
Jazz
Concepts
Skitsy
(Scruggs/Melodic/Chromatic style arrangement in key of
Em)
Harmonized
Scales
Harmonizing Runs and Melodies in
Thirds
Project: Create and Write Harmonized
Runs
LESSON NINETEEN - Improvisation,
Learning From Recordings, and Arranging for Two
Banjos
Pages 129 -
137
Review of Harmonized Runs
(demonstration)
Harmonizing Runs and Melodies
in Sixths
Partial
Chords
Writing Harmony in Melodic Style and
Scruggs Style
Come to the Raffle (6/8
time Irish jig arrangement in Melodic style for two
banjos)
Grandfather's Clock (Scruggs
style arrangement for two banjos)
Billy
Boy (Scruggs/Melodic style arrangement for two
banjos)
Chord Progression
Enhancement
Learning From
Recordings
Project: Columbus Stockade
Blues (create a second (harmonized) banjo arrangement)
LESSON TWENTY - Improvisation
and Arranging for Two Banjos
Pages 138 - 145
Review of
Second Banjo Arrangement for Columbus Stockade Blues (lower neck
Scruggs style
arrangement for two banjos)
Arpeggios and
Arpeggiated Runs
Whole-Tone
Scales
Chord Progression
Enhancement
Blackberry Blossom
(Scruggs/Melodic style arrangement)
Wildwood
Flower (Jazz-oriented Scruggs/Melodic style application of chord
progression
enhancement in D tuning)
Scarborough
Fair (Scruggs/Melodic style arrangement in D minor
tuning)
Short and Long Endings for G and D
Tunings in Scruggs and Melodic
Styles
Discussion of After-Course Study.
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