I met Adam back in 2016 at a banjo camp in North Carolina, fabulous player, great teacher and an extremely nice person who fills you with enthusiasm and love for the banjo. His version of Snowdrop is one of my favourite pieces of music on any instrument in any genre. Sorry I missed the live show but great that it’s available here. Thank you Deering for this great series.
Adam, I was one of your students in Helmond Holland years ago. I listened to your very interesting explanation about the sense of Banjo playing and the roll of the fifth string. I specially appreciated your remark that having a extraordinairy device like the fifth string should not end up in flatpicking. At this point in the video you mentioned the fifth string as a drone string - of course the daily name of it . However I hoped you would have come up with another name for it because in more or less official music theory it is not a drone at all. The essense of it is far more rythmical then to call it a drone. Drums have only one note too - musically speaking - but no one considers to call drums a drone. I prefer to think for the fifth string more in a way of the claves in Caribean music. They place in a specific rythmical pattern accents in the music ; this is percussion and I think for the fifth string more as a percussion device; so a percussion string instead of a drone.
What an enchanting episode! Thanx so much!
Adam is an inspiring player and thanks to him and Deering for this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I met Adam back in 2016 at a banjo camp in North Carolina, fabulous player, great teacher and an extremely nice person who fills you with enthusiasm and love for the banjo. His version of Snowdrop is one of my favourite pieces of music on any instrument in any genre. Sorry I missed the live show but great that it’s available here. Thank you Deering for this great series.
Wonderful stuff and I appreciate his warmth of personality and artful playing!
Really enjoyed this and Adam’s music. Thanks for having him on this program.
You are so welcome! He was awesome!
Adam, I was one of your students in Helmond Holland years ago. I listened to your very interesting explanation about the sense of Banjo playing and the roll of the fifth string. I specially appreciated your remark that having a extraordinairy device like the fifth string should not end up in flatpicking. At this point in the video you mentioned the fifth string as a drone string - of course the daily name of it . However I hoped you would have come up with another name for it because in more or less official music theory it is not a drone at all. The essense of it is far more rythmical then to call it a drone. Drums have only one note too - musically speaking - but no one considers to call drums a drone. I prefer to think for the fifth string more in a way of the claves in Caribean music. They place in a specific rythmical pattern accents in the music ; this is percussion and I think for the fifth string more as a percussion device; so a percussion string instead of a drone.
Sounds like Terence McKenna. Time for some mushrrooooms.