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Our Back Pages

My father and I have been teaching folk music on the Internet since the late 1990's. Some of the material has been lost over the years because we never thought that anybody would want to see or hear what we were doing in 1998.

We were so much older then, we're younger than that now.

Anyway, here is a collection of our old books, essays, podcasts and videos that have managed to stay online over the years.
-Patrick

Old Daily Frail Stuff:

The Daily Frail on YouTube

The Daily Frail on The Internet Archive

Essays:

Clawhammer vs Frailing

Zen in the Five-String Banjo

A Folk Musicians Guide to Web Publishing

Books:

The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo

A Book of Five Strings

The How and the Tao of Folk Guitar

The Outlaws and Scalawags Songbook

Songs For Sunday

Special Projects:

Braille-Friendly Banjo TAB

The Ukulele Project

The Old Time Banjo Project

Videos:

Our YouTube channel with nearly 400 videos

Old Time Banjo

Frailing Banjo Techniques

Tenor Banjo

Frailing Banjo

Frailing The Blues

Folk Guitar

Audio Workshops:

Virtual Frailing Banjo

Tenor Banjo

The Subway Shuffle