I was reluctant to sign up for the virtual banjo camp this last week. I have so much material that I’m currently working on, I feel like I’m treading water in the ocean. But, at the last minute I signed up. I couldn’t attend live, but started watching the videos last night. It is mind blowing. Way beyond what I expected. I’m only about half way through watching and haven’t started applying much to my banjo yet, but I’m gonna dig into these lessons like a bee on butter! I’ve already learned so much, there is so many great ideas and tons of information in these lessons. Thanks Ben! Guess I need to quit doing boogie woogie licks on Amazing Grace though, darn!
Virtual Banjo Camp is Mind Blowing!
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I was busy working on the payment system set up for the app while the class was going on, but I had the video playing in the background. That alone was enough to get me excited to dig in to it.
I really liked the format of this one. Each teacher weighing in on each topic one after the other felt like it was driving home the material better than just having each teacher cover a different subject. We got 3 perspectives on each topic.
I hope this format is used in the future.
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I was concerned that it would be too advanced for me and mostly be for future reference. It turned out that there was plenty that I can, and should work on now, Songs that are in our head that we can sing or hum - simple children’s songs - good for learning to play melodies by ear and then in different keys, with or without a capo. Certainly not bluegrass jam session songs but a wonderful learning gem. I created a bunch of them for the JamTrainer app. One of a number of great ideas presented for close enough with chord notes and actual melody notes. I’m really glad that I attended. I hope it’s OK for me to mention something so explicitly.
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Totally OK with me. 
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LOL, it turns out that some of them, like The Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle are the same with different words. Why didn’t I notice before making chord charts ;0)
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Another cool thing is the two string harmony out of the chord shapes. Why didn’t I see that without being told. Really great stuff in the little things mentioned almost in passing.
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If you’re wondering if you’re getting better at banjo, here is proof.
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