BNL Contents Index
Nov. 1982 to Oct. 1983
Volume X

109 Nov. 1982:

Frank Neat Stanleytone Banjo; Playing For The Audience; Rank Amateur's Corner; C Tuning vs G Tuning; Building Common Chords; Using Triplets To Ornament; Replacing A Fingerboard; Whole Tone Scales; Improvising Around A Melody; TABS: Hard Times; Stumbling; Bury Me Beneath The Willow; C Tuning vs. G Tuning; Footprints In The Snow; Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey; Coming `Round The Mountain; Sean Ryan's Polka; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Misty.

110 Dec. 1982:

Art Rosenbaum; First Quality Tone Ring Conversions; Breaks To Non-Instrumentals; Eubie Blake Tune; Building Common Chords (2); Beyond Licks; Right Hemisphere Playing; Endings/Key of C; Using Whole Tone Scales; TABS: Shoot The Buzzard; Shady Grove; Bugle Call Rag; Bringin' In The Georgia Mail; Just A Phone Call Will Do; Memories Of You; Hark The Herald Angels Sing; Sweetest Love; Home Sweet Home; John Hardy.

111 Jan. 1983:

What Is A Scrugg?; No Misanthrope, He; Building Common Chords (3); Flat-Head Tone Rings; Picking Tabs; Role Of The 5th String; Classic Banjo (Artificial Harmonics); Swing Tune/Melodic Style; TABS: Dear Old Dixie; Nine Pound Hammer; Little Maggie; Oh My Little Darling; When The Saints Go Marching In; Blackberry Blossom; Satin Doll; New Orleans.

112 Feb. 1983:

A Female Complaint About Those Bluegrass Lyrics; Photo - All Banjo Players In Czechoslovakia; Minor Chords; The Two-Rod Truss-Rod; Munde's Morsels; Deering Deluxe Banjo; Building Common Chords (4); TABS: Cotton Mill Girls; Blue Ridge Express; Poor Richard's Blues; Lady Gardner's Reel; Molly & Tenbrooks; Lonesome Without You; Lulu's Back In Town; Cuckoo's Nest; Little Rock Getaway; I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap.

113 Mar. 1983:

More On Right Hemisphere Playing; Bridge Placement; Classic Banjo; Ragtime Clawhammer; Building Common Chords (5); Licks Using Chord Progressions; TABS: Django; John Henry; Red River Valley; Scott Joplin's New Rag; Molly & Tenbrooks; Silver Crown Schottische; Leavin' Home; Old Rosin The Beau; Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms.

114 Apr. 1983:

Steve Cooley; Only A Gibson Is Good Enough; Kit Reports; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs/Melodic Style (2); Substitute Chords; TABS: Hydroslyde Breakdown; The Engineers Don't Wave From The Trains Anymore; Well May The World Go; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Weeping Willow Tree; Are You Washed In The Blood; Pike County Breakdown; Blue Ridge Cabin Home; Bye Bye Blues.

115 May 1983:

Tim Ellis; Choosing A Banjo Teacher; Custom Banjo (Ron Arant); Banjo Tone (1); Clawhammer Crosspicking; Vega Banjo Catalog (Scruggs Soloist) c. 1968; Munde's Morsels; Don Covers Earl; Rank Amateur's Corner; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs/Melodic Style (3); Substitute Chords; TABS: Devil Woman; Banjolina; Crying Holy; Maple Leaf Rag; Planxty Jack Daniels; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Ghost Riders In The Sky; Earl's Breakdown; New River Train; Somebody Touched Me; I Am The Man Thomas; Devil's Dream; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Banjo Signal; Home Sweet Home.

116 Jun. 1983:

Reed Martin; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs/Melodic Style (4); Fiddle Tune In Waltz Time; Reno Ragtime; Right Hand Positioning; Back-Up Overview; Price Straightline Tailpiece; Major Scale Patterns; TABS: Little Maggie; Midnight On The Water; Black & White Rag; Roller Coaster; Sitting On Top Of The World; Low & Lonely; Molly & Tenbrooks; Red Haired Boy; Big-Eyed Rabbit.

117 Jul. 1983:

James McKinney (1982 National Banjo Champion - Winfield, KS) - Three Hollow Flat-Head Tone Rings (First Quality, Deering, Price); Classic Banjo; Minstrel Clawhammer; Let's Consider Allen Shelton; Fill-In Back-Up Licks; Klezmer Clawhammer; Major Scale Patterns; TABS: Shuckin' The Corn; Silver Shoe Clog; Mrs. McCloud's Reel; Chicken Polka; Banjo Bounce; Blue Ridge Cabin Home; Bulgar; Tom & Jerry; Little Rock Getaway; A New Kind Of Love.

118 Aug. 1983:

Bill Keith; Bill Keith As A Teacher; Who Will Teach The Teachers; Roland TB-303 Bass Line; Gary Price Banjo; Five Banjo Peg-Heads c. 1923-33; D Chord Fill-In Licks; Stanley Hicks (Mountain Banjo Maker); Ragtime Banjo; TABS: Nine Pound Hammer; I'll Never Shed Another Tear; Planxty George Brabazon; Gold Rush; The Family Who Prays; Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine; Worried Blues; Green Mountain Hop; My Favorite Things; Pippin' Rag.

119 Sep. 1983:

Stephen Wade; Diminished Scales; Munde's Morsels; Clawhammer Duets; C Chord Back-Up; Working Out Tunes in Scruggs/Melodic Style (7); The Pre-War Sound?; Bluegrass Endings; TABS: Lonesome Road Blues; My Lord Will Send A Moses; Please; Santa Claus; Rickett's Hornpipe; Excuse Me, I Think I've Got A Headache.

120 Oct. 1983:

Raymond McLain; Other Fives; C Chord Back-Up; Diminished Exercises; TABS: Silver Creek; Banks Of The Ohio; Blackberry Blossom; Lonesome Without You; Tennessee Truck Driving Man; If I Should Wander Back Tonight; Cripple Creek; Midnight In Moscow; Sally Ann; Index - Volume X (Nov 1982-Oct 1983).