​Norwich Old Time Slow Jam is an opportunity for people to enjoy playing with others with plenty of support in a friendly and welcoming environment! The tunes are played slowly with plenty of repetition, similar to the Baltimore Old Time Slow Jam.

Initially hosted for my students, I'm very happy for others to join us and open it up! For those who will be coming for the first time by no means feel as if you have to have mastered all the tunes, even if you only want to play on one or two it would be great to have you along, and you’d be welcome to come and listen as well. The session is focused on stringed instruments such as mandolins, banjos, fiddles, guitars and dulcimers. Old time music doesn't tend to feature percussion or free reed instruments (with the generous exception of concertinas, harmonicas and bones).

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We play from a collection of tunes downloadable below. The versions presented here should be viewed as the building blocks of melody, and are hopefully satisfying enough to play as written, but with plenty of room for variation and embellishment as you see fit. The selections are presented in both standard notation and tablature, but as ever, there’s no substitute to learning these tunes by ear, and the accompanying YouTube playlist will give you an opportunity to learn these tunes as intended, without the distraction of fiddly dots, lines and numbers.​

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