Americana Jams
Summary
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Hosted on EVERY Tuesday of every month
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(except the random 5th Tuesday which is Open Mic Night)
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Two Rooms (Details Below)
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Americana & Electricana (Rotating Weekly)
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Campfire Americana (Every Tuesday)
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Make sure to download our RMJ Americana Song Book!
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ALL Acoustic instruments are welcome including percussion, cello, harmonica, etc. Electric bass is welcome.
What is Americana Music?
Lets check wikipedia first..
Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States of America, with particular emphasis on music historically developed in the American South.
To us at Roswell Music Jam, The Americana Jam will uses the Bluegrass style logistics. It has very few rules beyond that. It allow each participant, to call a song they want. Be it from Blues, Bluegrass, NewGrass, JamGrass, Folk, Folk-Rock, Blues-Rock, Alt-Rock, Old Country, Alt-Country, Outlaw Country, Roots, Old Time, Swing, Jazz, heck even New Country if you want. From time to time, the group has even throw in a Disco Tune just for kicks and giggles. This is the best of so many many worlds.
For the Americana and Campfire Americana jams, Electric Bass is welcome, but all other instruments need/should to be Acoustic. Cajon, Hand Percussion, etc and Melodica are welcome!
For Electricana, we welcome LOW VOLUME :D amps. The volume should be no louder than a standard Acoustic Guitar.
Genres are better thought of as Oceans and not boxes. Where the bump into each other is where beauty happens.
If you want to introduce a new song to the group, please bring 10-15 copies of your song to hand out if slightly more complex chord changes. Originals are also welcome! But remember it must be a song structure folks can easily pick up on and solo over.
Two Rooms:
Americana
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2nd & 4th Tuesdays
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Rotates weeks with Electricana
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Acoustic Only Jam.
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Electric Bass and Light Percussion are welcome.
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Bluegrass Circle style logistics.
Electricana
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1st & 3rd Tuesdays
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Rotates with Americana
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Acoustic and Low Volume Electric Jam
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NOTE: Low Volume amps are required. You will be asked to turn down if too loud.
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Electric Bass and Light Percussion are welcome.
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Bluegrass Circle style logistics.
Campfire Americana
Every Tuesday. This circle is focused on singing and not picking or solos. More focused on the Folks songs. Uses the Bluegrass logics of moving around the circle to pick songs.
What Songs to Sing?
We do not put many limits on the song choices but in general the song should be a few chords with a very easy repeating pattern. If unsure, we suggest taking a look at our RMJ Americana Song Book!