Banjo Lessons: 3 Playing Songs

Course details

Learn how to play banjo with United States Artists Friends Fellow and multi-Grammy nominee Tony Trischka. For more than 35 years, Tony has inspired and instructed countless bluegrass and acoustic musicians. Learn at your own pace from the comfort of your home, or anywhere else you can carry your instrument and your learning device. This 4-part definitive video library includes hundreds of banjo lessons and performances, plus banjo tabs, backing tracks, and other study materials. Part 3 gives you next-level intermediate skills for playing almost any song, as well as improving your repertoire and playing backup. Learn to incorporate harmonics, tune your bridge placement, play in a melodic, scaled-based style, and use Tony's tips to break through periods of stagnant playing, such as transcribing tunes you already know and transposing songs into different keys. Along the way, he introduces a variety of popular bluegrass, folk, and blues tunes, including "Banks of the Ohio" and "Worried Man Blues."

Learning objectives
Playing intermediate banjo tunes
Adding natural harmonics
Placing your bridge
Playing backup banjo
Playing intermediate banjo tunes
Expanding your playing style

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome

Intermediate Banjo Tunes

Banks of the Ohio, down the neck - Part 1
Banks of the Ohio, down the neck - Part 2, variations
Banks of the Ohio, up the neck - Part 1
Banks of the Ohio, up the neck - Part 2, variations
Banks of the Ohio, up the neck - Part 3, using 6ths
Foggy Mountain Breakdown roll
Train 45
Shady Grove (modal) - Part 1
Shady Grove (modal) - Part 2, variation
The diggy diggy

Intermediate Embellishments

Harmonics
Grandfather's Clock - Part 1
Grandfather's Clock - Part 2
Bridge placement
Endings
Fancier backup - Part 1
Fancier backup - Part 2
Fancier backup - Part 3
Fancier backup - Part 4
Fancier backup - Part 5
Fancier backup - Part 6

Intermediate Practice Techniques

Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind - Key of C
Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore - Key of D
Worried Man Blues - Down the neck
Practice techniques & reaching goals - Part 1
Practice techniques & reaching goals - Part 2
Practice techniques & reaching goals - Part 3
Intermediate hammer-ons - Part 1
Intermediate hammer-ons - Part 2
Worried Man Blues - Up the neck

Expanding Your Playing Styles

Sandy Boys
Melodic style - The Devil's Dream
Blues etude - Part 1
Blues etude - Part 2
11 ways to leave your level - Part 1
11 ways to leave your level - Part 2
11 ways to leave your level - Part 3
Happy Birthday - Key of G

Conclusion

ArtistWorks and Next Steps