HomespunTaught By Ken Perlman.
Level 1
Six CDs plus chord and tab book
This complete course by one of America’s best-known players and teachers takes you from the most basic banjo skills through complex melodic clawhammer style. Ken Perlman, one of the world's leading players, breaks down more than 40 great tunes, including old-time banjo songs, fiddle tunes and Irish and New England dances to provide you with a rich repertoire and months of exciting study.
The pieces you’ll be learning include "Mole In The Ground," "Groundhog," "Girl I Left Behind," "Grandfather's Clock," "Foggy Dew," "Sherman's March," "Cherokee Shuffle," "Cluck Old Hen," "Sally In The Garden," "Yellow Rose Of Texas," "Old Molly Hare," "Sandy River Belle," "Magpie," "Golden Slippers," "Arkansas Traveler," "June Apple," "Other Side Of Jordan," "Richmond Cotillion," "Rickett's Hornpipe," "O'Carolan's Concerto" and many more.
"...one of the most creative practitioners of this art. He has stretched
the boundaries of what can be done on the clawhammer banjo. His...techniques
open up a new world to the clawhammer banjoist." - Bluegrass Unlimited
Ken Perlman is one of today’s best-known clawhammer banjo players. He is considered
a pioneer of the melodic style, which has greatly expanded the range and flexibility
of clawhammer, and he is known in particular for his skillful adaptations to
banjo of reels, jigs, hornpipes and other Celtic tunes.
Ken has been active internationally since the mid-1970s as a prominent teacher
of the style. He has taught at such prestigious music camps as the American Festival
of Fiddle Tunes, Common Ground on the Hill, the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop,
the Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp, and the Tennessee Banjo Institute. He has also
served as music director for several banjo-teaching festivals: the Maryland Banjo
Academy, Banjo Camp North, the Bath Banjo Festival, the Swannee Old Time Banjo
Camp and the American Banjo Camp.
Ken’s other banjo instruction projects include the classic books "Clawhammer
Style Banjo" (Centerstream), "Melodic Clawhammer Banjo" (Music
Sales) and "Basic Clawhammer Banjo" (Mel Bay). He has been writing
the “Melodic Clawhammer” column in Banjo Newsletter since the early 1980s, and
his newest book, entitled "Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer
Banjo" (Mel Bay), is based on the first twenty years on these columns. His
solo recordings include "Northern Banjo" (Copper Creek), "Island
Boy" (Wizmak), "Devil in the Kitchen" (Marimac), "Live in
the U.K." (Halshaw), and "Clawhammer Banjo and Fingerstyle Guitar Solos" (Folkways).
Ken has been active internationally since the mid-1970s as a prominent teacher of the style. He has taught at such prestigious music camps as the American Festival of Fiddle Tunes, Common Ground on the Hill, the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, the Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp, and the Tennessee Banjo Institute. He has also served as music director for several banjo-teaching festivals: the Maryland Banjo Academy, Banjo Camp North, the Bath Banjo Festival, the Swannee Old Time Banjo Camp and the American Banjo Camp.
Ken’s other banjo instruction projects include the classic books "Clawhammer
Style Banjo" (Centerstream), "Melodic Clawhammer Banjo" (Music
Sales) and "Basic Clawhammer Banjo" (Mel Bay). He has been writing
the “Melodic Clawhammer” column in Banjo Newsletter since the early 1980s, and
his newest book, entitled "Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer
Banjo" (Mel Bay), is based on the first twenty years on these columns. His
solo recordings include "Northern Banjo" (Copper Creek), "Island
Boy" (Wizmak), "Devil in the Kitchen" (Marimac), "Live in
the U.K." (Halshaw), and "Clawhammer Banjo and Fingerstyle Guitar Solos" (Folkways).