Banjo Newsletter - Contents Index - November 1979 to October 1980

Béla Fleck; 5/4 Time; Back-Up/Basic Licks; Scruggs Chordal Extensions; Circle Of Fifths (5) - 7th Chords; Building A Rim; TABS: Texas Barbecue; Devil & The Farmer's Wife; Down Yonder; Take Five; Down The Road; Looking Out My Back Door; Flop-Eared Mule; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Fireball Mail; Sugar Hill; Stymied; Mare's Tails.

Mel Bay Reharmonization; Using Concepts From Research (3); Flatted 7th Runs; Stringing Licks Together; Arpeggios; TABS: I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day; Oh Susannah; Morpeth Rant; Turkey In The Straw; Tom Dooley; Will You Be Loving Another Man; Jingle Bells; Red Wing; Sunny Side Of The Mountain; Hava Naguela; Keep On The Sunny Side; Cabaret.

D.C. Griffiths; Keep On The Sonny Side; Fundamental Back-Up Licks; More Arpeggios; Flatted 7th Runs (2); Classic Banjo; Chord Substitutes; Banjo Kits (Saga & Stewart MacDonald); TABS: Beer Barrel Polka; Dear Old Dixie; Somehow Tonight; Lonesome Road Blues; If I Should Wander Back Tonight; Down The Road; I Am A Pilgrim; Renaissance Lute Piece; John Henry; Prelude; Tit Galop Pour Mamou; Bill Cheatham; Ruben's Train.

Mike Seeger; Allison Banjo; Why A Teacher?; Dan Emmett; Variations of Scruggs Back-Up; Classic Banjo; Harmonization; Classic Exercises; Keep On The Sonny Side; Fiberglass Resonators/Bridges; Reading Music (1); TABS: Buck Dancer's Choice; Handsome Molly; Poor Ellen Smith; Precious Memories; Sunny Side of the Mountain; Sweet Georgia Brown; Bach Violin Concerto; We Can't Be Darlings Anymore; Emotions.

Peter Mirando; Keep On The Sonny Side; Tuning; Fiddle Tune Back-Up; Peter Schwimmer; More On Diatonics; Classic Banjo; Glues; Working Out Fiddle Tunes (1); TABS: Shelby Rock; Snow Deer; California Cottonfields; Blackberry Blossom; Sockeye; Leaving California; Crying Holy; Old Fashioned Preacher; Cora Is Gone; Dig A Hole In The Meadow; Swimming Song; #5; Ground Hog; Who Broke The Lock; Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho; Rosin The Beau; Soldier's Joy.

Banjo Speed; Keep On The Sonny Side; Learning To Play Fast; If Speed Is A Must; Get It Right First; Old-Time Banjo Speed; Speed & Physical Anatomy; 35 Muscles In Each Hand; Transposing; Working With Other People's Tabs; Fiddle Tunes/ Key of C; Double Roll; TABS: Down In The Valley; John B. Sails; I Wonder Where You Are Tonight; Little Maggie; Douglass' Favorite; Shady Grove; Stone's Rag; I Never Get To Hold You In My Arms Anymore; Foot Prints In The Snow; Workingman Blues.

Willard Spencer; Refretting With Epoxy; Keep On The Sonny Side; Buying A Beginner Banjo; Triple Pull-Offs; Starting To Roll; H.M. Marcum; TABS: Banjo In The Hollow; Sally Goodin'; Darling Nellie Gray; Charlotte Breakdown; Stone's Rag; Fiddle & Banjo; Steel Guitar Rag; Fire Ball; Peeler Creek Waltz; Irene Goodnight; Birth Of The Blues; Blue Jazz; Clinch Mountain Backstep.

Don Stover; Modulation; Dawg Music; Keep On The Sonny Side; Double Stops; Working Out Fiddle Tunes (3) Cox-Head Banjo Head; Munde's Morsels; Instrument Engraving; TABS: Get In Line Brother; Jody's Jump; Flop-Eared Mule; Opus 57; Plastic Banana; World Is Waiting For The Sunrise; Hard Ain't It Hard; You Are My Sunshine; Flowers Are Sleeping; Blackberry Blossom; Arkansas Traveler; Sail Away Ladies; Home On The Range; Song Of Giza; Lime Rock.

Bill Knopf; Peter Wernick Workshops; Double Stops; Working Out Fiddle Tunes (4); Classic Banjo; Engraving (2); Munde's Morsels; How To Learn A Tablature; TABS: Limehouse Blues; Stoney Point; I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap; Teddy Malo's Jig; I'll Never Be Alone; Red Wing; Alabama Sand Dance; Lime Rock; Little Sadie; Mississippi Sawyer.

Don Rusnak (Vintage Instruments); Gary Price Banjos; Syncopation; Practice Board; Engraving; Doublestops; Developing Scales; Working Out Fiddle Tunes (4); TABS: Bunker Hill; How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live; Sailor's Hornpipe; Don't Let Your Deal Go Down; Thinking About You; Why Don't You Tell Me So; Silver Threads Among The Gold Blues; Cuckoo's Nest.

John McEuen; Steve Senerchia; Keep On The Sonny Side; Cleaning Your Banjo; Scale Degree Patterns; What Is Talent; TABS: Andante; My Home's Across The Smoky Mountains; Temperance Reel; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Wreck Of Old Number Nine; Ring Ring The Banjo; Doin' My Time; John Hardy.

Marty Cutler (1); Scruggs Revue; Keep On The Sonny Side; Banjo Upkeep; Melodic Clawhammer; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (1); 144 Little Chords; TABS: Bill Cheatham; My Cabin In Caroline; Sunstone; John Henry; Sweet Betsy From Pike; Thinking About You; B.G. Chase; Sailor's Hornpipe; Honeysuckle Rose; Cotton- Eyed Joe; Index - Volume VII (Nov 1979-Oct 1980).