Modes & Pentatonics in Old-Time Music

Modes & Pentatonics in Old-Time Music. There's a lot of misinformation about modal music these days in the old-time music scene (for one thing, the so-called Church Modes - Dorian, Mixolydian etc. - are only the beginning of the story).   Learn a practical, thoroughly no-nonsense approach to "modal" music, and how to approach modal tunes in your playing. Some tunes we may look at are "Greasy Coat, "The Route" "Squirrel Hunters," Henry Reed's "Shady Grove," and Edden Hammons' "Sandy Boys."