Welcome To DanGem Bluegrass

 
 
 
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Free Lessons with Tony Trischka!

Purchase a Deering, Vega, or Goodtime banjo now and receive 3 free months of banjo lessons with the legendary banjo player Tony Trischka via the Tony Trischka School of Banjo.

For a limited time, if you purchase a Deering, Vega, or Goodtime banjo & sign up for the Tony Trischka School Of Banjo, you will receive three months FREE with a three month paid membership. All you need to do is send in your warranty card and we will email you the promotional code to use on the Tony Trischka School of banjo website.

Learn more about the Tony Trischka School of Banjo here...

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Tickets for the Bluegrass Concert Featuring The Broken String Band Saturday 27th Feb 2010.
The Concert venue Corr's Corner Hotel Newtownabbey Starting 8.00pm
 Only a limited number of tickets available £10.00 each
 
Click here to purchase online
or
post payment to
Derek lockhart
101 Belfast Rd
Magheralin
Craigavon
BT67 0RP
 Please give Qty required and return Address
 
dangem camp 2010 
 

 Banjo Camp to run again in 2010 dates Friday 26th, Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th Feb 2010

 
 
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Dangem next get together Saturday  27th March 2010  9.30-10.00am to 12.00 noon

(Banjo Camp and Concert in Feb so no Feb get together see above)

Everyone welcome

 
 

Banjo Players

 

   

 
Dust of the Banjo, Fiddle, Guitar,Mandolin,Bass

Everyone welcome

For some good old Bluegrass jammin

Go on you know you will love it.
We have arranged a get together to do some more picking .
(see address and post code below)
A small fee for the hire of the room will be charged, about £3.00 each.  
So break out the Banjo, Fiddle or violin, Guitar,Mandolin,Bass 
 For some good old Bluegrass jammin  
 Go on you know you will love it.
 Lagan Valley Island
Island Civic Centre
LISBURN
BT27 4RL
 How to get to the civic centre  

 

If you are coming from the South direction take the turn off for Lisburn (from the M1) after Sprucefield, sign posted for Lisburn Ballynahinch.
At the roundabout take the 1st turn off for Lisburn, keep in the right hand lane.
Go through 2 sets of traffic lights (if you look to your right as you pass through the 2nd set of lights you will see the Civic Centre beside the river.)
You must stay in the right lane and take the third exit from the roundabout to get to the Civic Centre.

 

Coming from the North side
Coming from Belfast on the M1 take the 1st slip road marked Lisburn, Ballynahich, Saintfield.
Take the 3rd exit marked Lisburn
Keep in the right hand lane, go through 2 sets of traffic lights (if you look to your right as you pass through the 2nd set of lights you will see the civic centre beside the river.)
You must stay in the right lane and take the third exit from the roundabout to get to the Civic Centre.

www.dangem.co.uk

Tel (+44) 07521 464125
 
 
Pics and Video of this years Moniaive Bluegrass Festival on the tool bar of our main page please have a look Our Click Here
 
 
Pics and Video of this years Omagh Bluegrass Festival on the tool bar of our main page please have a look Or Click Here
 
 
 
 
Dangem Now Stocking Blueridge Guitars
 
Authentic vintage style Bluegrass guitars that leave the competition standing

Blueridge have taken America by storm with their authentic vintage style dreadnought and auditorium guitars. No corners have been cut to keep the price down, and the guitars speak for themselves in quality and playability.
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Youtube Dangem Banjo Camp 2009 Video of Concert
 
 
 
 
Another weekend link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG6TQIdBi0Q          
   

 

Learning to play Banjo

 

The Wonder of Being a Beginner No matter how long you play, you will always enjoy a never ending supply of wonder and discovery.


During our busy working lives, it is often difficult to combine hard work with remembering to “stop and smell the roses”. We all have friends who one day “wake up” and lament, ‘wow, my kids are teenagers and I don’t even remember them growing up’. As beginning banjo players, we all tend to be very impatient with our progress. We want to be able to play like the professionals we hear, but be able to do it NOW! While this desire is natural, and is part of the natural drive we all have to work hard so we can “move ahead”, there is an aspect of being a beginner that we don’t want to lose.

Discovery…one of the great enjoyments in life is discovering new and exciting things. It can be discovering new restaurants, new books, new songs or new mathematical equations. But for the banjo playing beginner, almost every moment of banjo practice brings new discoveries. Every lesson can show us a relationship between chords, or picking patterns, or how the banjo responds to a certain kind of strum. Just like watching a child grow, your skill and awareness grows every time you pick up your banjo. At times, it can feel like watching your fingernails grow; you know they’re growing, but you can’t see any movement! At other times, you experience dramatic sweeping awareness that catapults you into a frenzy of discovery both thrilling and sometimes overwhelming.

However, when we work slowly and steadily at developing our ability, we make discoveries constantly. These are precious moments that will actually “spur us on” and keeps our enthusiasm flowing. I think the very best way to put ourselves into a “method” that helps keep us on the “discovery path” of enthusiasm, is this old adage:

“When you practice slowly, you learn fast. When you practice fast, you learn bad habits.”

By practicing slowly and not “pushing” to play “up to speed” or “faster than we are able”, we allow our muscles, nerves, tendons and ligaments, to catch up with our desires. We know what we want to be able to do. Sometimes, we might even know how to do it. But knowing and doing are two very different things. Slow, relaxed practice, gives the body time to catch up. But along the way to “catching up”, the discoveries we make keep happening. It might be a tiny, subtle awareness of how your thumb-pick feels on the third string and the fourth string. It might be how the banjo sounds different when you fret with your middle finger or pinkie. Whatever the discovery, and no matter how seemly small, these are the great joys of learning to play the banjo. We should treat ourselves to these gems every day. Why not? Once you have your banjo, it’s about the least expensive hobby you can have and your discovery path is life long. As long as you play the banjo you will be discovering and exploring.

Children learn new things every day of their growing lives. One of the great joys of youth is in self-discovery and learning about the world. Too often, adults feel they’ve seen it all, or done it all; well not in banjo playing. No one living has ever played every combination of notes, at every speed, every melody, every chord or every song. Maybe this is not possible, but it illustrates that in the world of banjos, there are no musical limits, there are no limits to the discoveries that are available. During a recording session, a famous artist was asked, “Is this practice?” The artist answered, “They’re all practice!”

So, enjoy the wonder of discovery when you are getting started. Know that every minute of slow practice on your banjo takes you to a new level of skill with new ideas making their appearance at every turn. It’s true for the beginner and it’s true for the master. No matter how long you play, you will always enjoy a never ending supply of wonder and discovery. How could anything be better?

 

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