Banjo Lessons: 4 Improvisation and Melodic Styles
1h 32mBeginner2016-10-07
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. 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
Learning objectives
Playing melodic-style scale patterns
Playing single-string scales
Using the backward-alternating thumb roll technique
Advanced scale techniques
Skills covered
Music LessonsAudio and MusicLimited Series
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Melodic & Single-String Style
- 02 - Melodic scale patterns - Part 1
- 03 - Melodic scale patterns - Part 2
- 04 - Melodic scale patterns - Part 3
- 05 - Single-string scale exercises - Part 1
- 06 - Single-string scale exercises - Part 2
- 07 - Single-string scale exercises - Part 3
- 08 - Single-string scale exercises - Part 4
- 09 - Cattle in the Cane - Part 1, playing in the key of A without a capo
- 10 - Cattle in the Cane - Part 2
2. Advanced Rolls
- 11 - Backward-alternating thumb roll - Part 1
- 12 - Backward-alternating thumb roll - Part 2
- 13 - Shelton roll 1 - Boil Them Cabbage Down
- 14 - Shelton roll 2 - Salty Dog
- 15 - Shelton roll 3 - Ending lick
3. Scale Techniques
- 16 - The Danny Thomas - Part 1
- 17 - The Danny Thomas - Part 2
- 18 - Advanced scale techniques - Part 1
- 19 - Advanced scale techniques - Part 2
Conclusion
- 20 - ArtistWorks and Next Steps