Geoff Hohwald’s Banjo Camp
A Geoff Hohwald Banjo Camp is not your typical large-group workshops where you get lost in the crowd. Students describe the experience as more of a total immersion retreat than a traditional camp. Geoff’s camps are small, focused, and personal — a low student-to-teacher ratio with plenty of one-on-one instruction, monitored practice, and real jamming with the instructors.
Students work directly with Geoff and his team of instructors on right and left hand technique, backup, improvisation, how to practice effectively, and how to play confidently with other musicians. Before each camp, Geoff personally discusses goals with every participant so the curriculum is tailored to the group. Nothing is left to chance, and no one is left alone to figure things out.
What Campers Cover
- Correct right and left hand technique
- How to practice to produce optimum results in your playing
- How to relax while playing
- How to use a metronome to increase speed and accuracy
- Understanding basic bluegrass rhythm
- Playing chords anywhere on the neck and moving between them
- Using chord clusters to play more efficiently
- Minor and 7th chords from major chord shapes
- What to do in a jam environment and how to jam
- Subjects tailored to individual student needs and goals
What Campers Had to Say
“Before the camp, the participants were able to discuss with Geoff what their goals and intentions for the camp were. Based on this, when we got there, he had a list of objectives and skills prepared to be covered. No one was left alone to figure something out and told to ‘just practice it when you get home.’ The instructors played and participated with us, and when the day ended at 5:30 PM, were willing to come back after dinner for more playing. It was outstanding — a total immersion in the banjo and banjo playing with little to no distraction.”
— Gerald C.
“Highly recommend his teaching if you want to improve your banjo playing.”
— Rob S.
“While his video and written instruction is great, there is nothing like sitting down with a Master Teacher who can identify weaknesses quickly and then provide focused, practical exercises to correct them.”
— John E.
Banjo Camp Is Coming Back — in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Geoff has hosted intensive banjo camps at the Banjo Warehouse in Dahlonega, Georgia — a quiet, wooded retreat in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and at the scenic mountain campus of The John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. Now we’re planning to bring banjo camp back, and this time it will be held in Yellow Springs, Ohio — Geoff’s home base and the home of Banjo Warehouse.
Dates and details are still being worked out, but the format will be the same thing that made the 2018 and 2019 camps so effective: small groups, high instructor-to-student ratio, one-on-one attention, real jamming, and a curriculum tailored to each participant’s goals.
Yellow Springs is one of the most distinctive small towns in Ohio — great food, independent shops, hiking trails, and a strong arts and music community. It’s easily accessible from Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. Come for the banjo, stay for the town.
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