Banjo Lessons: 4 Improvisation and Melodic Styles

Course details

Learn how to play banjo with United States Artists Friends Fellow and multi-Grammy nominee Tony Trischka. 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 4 is an advanced course designed to help you strengthen your improvisation skills and melodic style. Tony provides simple exercises, such as melodic scale patterns and single-string scales, to help you practice, and provides tools to add more unique sounds into your repertoire. Plus, learn the backward-alternating thumb roll—a very useful picking pattern for improvising—and advanced scale techniques. As with all the Banjo Lessons courses, Tony breaks down a selection of classic banjo tunes so you can see and hear how the techniques work in a professional's hands.

Learning objectives
Playing melodic-style scale patterns
Playing single-string scales
Using the backward-alternating thumb roll technique
Advanced scale techniques

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome

Melodic & Single-String Style

Melodic scale patterns - Part 1
Melodic scale patterns - Part 2
Melodic scale patterns - Part 3
Single-string scale exercises - Part 1
Single-string scale exercises - Part 2
Single-string scale exercises - Part 3
Single-string scale exercises - Part 4
Cattle in the Cane - Part 1, playing in the key of A without a capo
Cattle in the Cane - Part 2

Advanced Rolls

Backward-alternating thumb roll - Part 1
Backward-alternating thumb roll - Part 2
Shelton roll 1 - Boil Them Cabbage Down
Shelton roll 2 - Salty Dog
Shelton roll 3 - Ending lick

Scale Techniques

The Danny Thomas - Part 1
The Danny Thomas - Part 2
Advanced scale techniques - Part 1
Advanced scale techniques - Part 2

Conclusion

ArtistWorks and Next Steps