Beth Mead – Banjo / Jamming
Beth is a Banjo player and teacher currently based in the Philadelphia Area. She studied and taught Banjo and Bluegrass Music at South Plains College, and continues to host jams and teach private lessons on banjo, guitar and ukulele. She is also Kitty Starr, Kitty Starr and the Whereabouts, a band born at Camp Bluegrass! She performs throughout the US and has recorded with Alan Munde, Anne Luna, Chris Sanders, Dede Wyland and her east coast band, Tookany Creek featuring Ray Duffy, John Catterall and Larry Cohen. As a writer and vocalist, she has just finished a collaboration with Alan Munde on a volume of American Popular Songs arranged for the 5 string banjo.
Beth’s skills and topics covered in her banjo and jammingclass.
1. Hits from the American Popular songbook: learn Blue Skies and Bye Bye Blue
2. The big 3 movable chord shapes and how to use them
3. Magic D tricks to use in backup and soloing without retuning
4. Two Chord Songs: Waltz Across Texas and Take me back to Tulsa
5. Learn to accompany, sing and play a break for the 3 most popular sing
along songs: Country Roads, You are my Sunshine and Hey Good Lookin’.
6. Learn a melody break for Country Roads, You Are My Sunshine, Hey Good Looking
7. Banjo accompaniment for folk singing: Last Thing on my Mind, This Land is Your Land
8. Learn to play in open C The old spinning wheel
9. Warm up and scale exercises for everyone.
10 . Learn the alternating thumb roll and how to use it for accompaniment