www.frederickwarnermusic.com
Frederick A. Warner, Adirondack / Appalachian Composer
Welcome to my web site. I lived in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York for 60 years. My father, his father and his father all lived there throughout their entire lives. Earlier generations came north from Comstock, NY and over from Vermont prior to that. Adirondack towns I've lived in are: Upper Jay, Jay, Keene, Keene Valley, Wilmington, Black Brook, Saranac Lake, Hadley, and Lake Luzerne. I've also lived outside of the Adirondack Park in Fort Edwards, Glens Falls and even Ithaca, NY for a college experience. I've made my home in the Adirondack Mountains since birth in 1950, living mostly in and around the communities of Wilmington, Upper Jay, Jay, Keene and Keene Valley.
A while back, in the year 2011, after studying the area intensely on the internet, on May 31st, 2011, Mary and I moved to eastern Tennessee for me to continue writing my second volume of banjo instruction. The first volume, some 40 years in the making remains unpublished due to trouble obtaining copyrights from some of the musicians involved. I have released special copies that have those copyright infringement areas omitted, but it's just not the same.
(My first love in music is tied between classical and cinematic classical music and my second love for music is my "hobby" music: "Bluegrass" and "Old Time"). Having to do with my "hobby", there are many banjo pickers in this southern area and their styles vary widely. Volume 2 will continue my focus on 3-finger Scruggs-style playing. I've also started writing a book of 40 fiddle breaks to popular Bluegrass and fiddle tunes such as "Ground Speed", "Shucking The Corn", "Earl's Breakdown", "Southern Flavor", "Old Dangerfield", "Red Wing", etc.
Long about 2015, we started visiting north central Arkansas; a wonderful community called Searcy. In short time, we made lots of friends in the communities of Searcy, Judsonia, Pangburn, Kensett, Heber Springs, Hopewell, Higden, Mountain View and Cabot. Before long, I became acquainted with many musicians and started being asked to attend jam sessions and private parties throughout the area. For a few years, we traveled back and forth between Erwin, Tennessee and Searcy, Arkansas, visiting with our many friends and playing Bluegrass with lots and lots of area musicians. Now, we're pretty much in Searcy steadily.
I am a composer member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and hold 38 copyrights registered with the United States Library of Congress. Here, throughout this website, I attempt to provide an overview of the musical genres I work within and provide a means to listen to a few of the pieces within each classification.
Thank you for stopping by. I want to thank all my many friends and fans who stop by this site so often and drop me emails regularly. Also, I extend my warmest welcome to new visitors and ask that you make yourself comfortable here and stop back as often as you like. I also wish to thank Mary for her excellent photos used throughout these pages. Probably 99.99% of the photos used here have been photographed by her. She also has been invaluable in design ideas and in keeping up my computer. She has started a website of her photography at www.thenaturallens.weebly.com so be sure and stop by and check out her photos. Please feel free to email me at adirondackcomposer@hotmail.com or adirondackcomposer@gmail.com
Frederick Warner,
Adirondack / Appalachian/ Ozark Composer
A while back, in the year 2011, after studying the area intensely on the internet, on May 31st, 2011, Mary and I moved to eastern Tennessee for me to continue writing my second volume of banjo instruction. The first volume, some 40 years in the making remains unpublished due to trouble obtaining copyrights from some of the musicians involved. I have released special copies that have those copyright infringement areas omitted, but it's just not the same.
(My first love in music is tied between classical and cinematic classical music and my second love for music is my "hobby" music: "Bluegrass" and "Old Time"). Having to do with my "hobby", there are many banjo pickers in this southern area and their styles vary widely. Volume 2 will continue my focus on 3-finger Scruggs-style playing. I've also started writing a book of 40 fiddle breaks to popular Bluegrass and fiddle tunes such as "Ground Speed", "Shucking The Corn", "Earl's Breakdown", "Southern Flavor", "Old Dangerfield", "Red Wing", etc.
Long about 2015, we started visiting north central Arkansas; a wonderful community called Searcy. In short time, we made lots of friends in the communities of Searcy, Judsonia, Pangburn, Kensett, Heber Springs, Hopewell, Higden, Mountain View and Cabot. Before long, I became acquainted with many musicians and started being asked to attend jam sessions and private parties throughout the area. For a few years, we traveled back and forth between Erwin, Tennessee and Searcy, Arkansas, visiting with our many friends and playing Bluegrass with lots and lots of area musicians. Now, we're pretty much in Searcy steadily.
I am a composer member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and hold 38 copyrights registered with the United States Library of Congress. Here, throughout this website, I attempt to provide an overview of the musical genres I work within and provide a means to listen to a few of the pieces within each classification.
Thank you for stopping by. I want to thank all my many friends and fans who stop by this site so often and drop me emails regularly. Also, I extend my warmest welcome to new visitors and ask that you make yourself comfortable here and stop back as often as you like. I also wish to thank Mary for her excellent photos used throughout these pages. Probably 99.99% of the photos used here have been photographed by her. She also has been invaluable in design ideas and in keeping up my computer. She has started a website of her photography at www.thenaturallens.weebly.com so be sure and stop by and check out her photos. Please feel free to email me at adirondackcomposer@hotmail.com or adirondackcomposer@gmail.com
Frederick Warner,
Adirondack / Appalachian/ Ozark Composer
Click on Mary's picture to visit her Natural Lens website.
www.thenaturallens.weebly.com