1/17/2024 0 Comments Five of a kind bluegrassHow did Emmett Franz join The Petersens? Is he planning on staying with your band?Įmmett grew up playing music with his family, The Franz Family, and my goodness if you haven’t watched any videos of them they are FANTASTIC! As the Franz kids grew up, got married, and started having families of their own, Emmett began touring with other artists. Emmett comes up with a lot of counter melodies and creative arrangements for our group. The band plays through the song together and then we talk through different options. Who arranges your songs?Īfter we decide we are going to learn a song, the vocalist chooses the key and Katie comes up with a basic layout/arrangement and mom helps create a chord chart. It also depends on where in the show the song will go, who brought the song to the band, and (if we have to sing in a particular key) whose voice falls in that range. We all have very different voices so usually it doesn’t take much thought on who naturally fits the feel of the song the best. How do you decide who is going to sing lead for each song? If we have a new album or a major video shoot coming up we add rehearsals as needed. We have three live shows a week in Branson so that keeps us pretty tight on the majority of our songs. We have two band rehearsals a week and one morning where we have individual practice time. Julianne switched to the mandolin in 2015 when the band went full-time. Mom picked up the mandolin and Julianne chose to learn the violin so she could be like her awesome big sister, Katie. She started taking lessons and mostly learned from reading tablature in instruction books. Because there are no drums in bluegrass, dad bought Ellen a banjo. Because the guitar is such a crucial instrument in a bluegrass band, dad held down the fort until Matt was solid on his rhythm. When Dad decided we would become a bluegrass band, he enrolled Katie in “fiddle boot camp” (yes, that is a thing) and Matt switched to taking flatpicking lessons. Matt at age 9 chose the guitar and also took classical lessons. Katie at age 9 chose the violin and started taking classical lessons weekly. After two years of piano, we were allowed to choose another instrument. How did each of you choose your instrument?Įach of the Petersen siblings had to take piano lessons at age 7. Katie plays a Sigman LAS five-string violin, Ellen plays a Hopkins DHP banjo, Matt plays a Collings D1ATSB guitar, Julianne plays an Eastman MD915 mandolin, Emmett plays a Scheerhorn dobro, and mom plays an Englehardt EM1 bass. What kind of instruments do The Petersens play?
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