Banjo Lessons: 3 Playing Songs
3h 29mBeginner2016-10-07
Authors
Tony Trischka
Grammy-nominated bluegrass musician and producer
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
Learning objectives
Playing intermediate banjo tunes
Adding natural harmonics
Placing your bridge
Playing backup banjo
Playing intermediate banjo tunes
Expanding your playing style
Skills covered
Music LessonsAudio and MusicLimited Series
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Intermediate Banjo Tunes
- 02 - Banks of the Ohio, down the neck - Part 1
- 03 - Banks of the Ohio, down the neck - Part 2, variations
- 04 - Banks of the Ohio, up the neck - Part 1
- 05 - Banks of the Ohio, up the neck - Part 2, variations
- 06 - Banks of the Ohio, up the neck - Part 3, using 6ths
- 07 - Foggy Mountain Breakdown roll
- 08 - Train 45
- 09 - Shady Grove (modal) - Part 1
- 10 - Shady Grove (modal) - Part 2, variation
- 11 - The diggy diggy
2. Intermediate Embellishments
- 12 - Harmonics
- 13 - Grandfather's Clock - Part 1
- 14 - Grandfather's Clock - Part 2
- 15 - Bridge placement
- 16 - Endings
- 17 - Fancier backup - Part 1
- 18 - Fancier backup - Part 2
- 19 - Fancier backup - Part 3
- 20 - Fancier backup - Part 4
- 21 - Fancier backup - Part 5
- 22 - Fancier backup - Part 6
3. Intermediate Practice Techniques
- 23 - Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind - Key of C
- 24 - Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore - Key of D
- 25 - Worried Man Blues - Down the neck
- 26 - Practice techniques & reaching goals - Part 1
- 27 - Practice techniques & reaching goals - Part 2
- 28 - Practice techniques & reaching goals - Part 3
- 29 - Intermediate hammer-ons - Part 1
- 30 - Intermediate hammer-ons - Part 2
- 31 - Worried Man Blues - Up the neck
4. Expanding Your Playing Styles
- 32 - Sandy Boys
- 33 - Melodic style - The Devil's Dream
- 34 - Blues etude - Part 1
- 35 - Blues etude - Part 2
- 36 - 11 ways to leave your level - Part 1
- 37 - 11 ways to leave your level - Part 2
- 38 - 11 ways to leave your level - Part 3
- 39 - Happy Birthday - Key of G
Conclusion
- 40 - ArtistWorks and Next Steps