A Traditional Bluegrass Music Theory course will be offered in Erwin, TN at the Senior Center's Annex building (the Clinchfield Activity Center) on one Tuesday night per month. The night will be the second Tuesday of the month, each month. The course will instruct music theory as it directly applies to Bluegrass music and will be aimed at acoustic instruments only. No electric instruments will be permitted. The first compilation of lessons will teach music clefs, lines and spaces, key signatures, flats and sharps, scales and exercises, tablatures, etc.

In an effort to minimize any boredom, each 15 minute lesson will be followed by a 15 minute application period where the lesson is applied to the acoustic instrument class members opt to bring. Those instruments permitted will be: guitar, fiddle, mandolin, resonator guitar, banjo and standup bass. After three short, graduated, lessons are conducted, a jam session will take place for the duration of the evening's scheduled time.

The course will run one Tuesday night per month for as long as interest remains high. The cost is expected to be $5.00 per person per night with much of the proceeds going to the Senior Center.

The instructor will be Frederick Warner.

Those interested in enrolling in the classes are asked to please email adirondackcomposer@gmail.com to sign up. Classes are expected to begin the second week of January.

Mary and I are sure enjoying this warm weather lately. It's been really warm, sunny, with clear blue skies and gentle breezes. Just perfect for mid-November.
I'm sure we're being spoiled after the killing frost we had the other night. But, as we've learned from living here in eastern Tennessee, the winters are not really all that brutal. A snowstorm with 2 feet deep of the white stuff doesn't really last all that long before the sunny sky melts it all away. And, there's a certain beauty with the mountain tops all covered in snow and the valley floors still green.

I actually saw two different people mowing their lawns today up in the Boone's Creek area! There is still an abundance of yard sales dotting the landscape.