Overview
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Learn how to play banjo with award-winning banjo player Tony Trischka. Achieve a more professional sound, master increased speed, and incorporate hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Separation of notes: Part 1
- Separation of notes: Part 2
- Hitting the head with the picks
- Keeping a positive attitude
- Playing with others: Part 1
- Playing with others: Part 2, beginning backup
- Playing with others: Part 3
- Using the capo: Part 1
- Using the capo: Part 2
- Metronome
- Beginning hammer-ons: Part 1
- Beginning hammer-ons: Part 2, "Shady Grove"
- Beginning hammer-ons: Part 3, "Mole in the Ground"
- Tone
- Pull-offs: Part 1
- Pull-offs: Part 2, the 3-2 pull-off
- Pull-offs: Part 3, "The Old Cat Died"
- "The Old Cat Died": Up the neck
- Pull-off etude: Part 1
- Pull-off etude: part 2
- Choking the 2-3 slide
- "John Hardy, part 1: Playing the syllables
- "John Hardy," part 2: Tag ending
- "John Hardy," part 3: Alternate chorus
- "John Hardy," part 4: Backup
- 3/4 time, "Down in the Valley": Part 1
- 3/4 time, "Down in the Valley": Part 2
- Standing position
- Ear training: "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
- Finding the melody, "When the Saints Go Marching In": Part 1
- Finding the melody, "When the Saints Go Marching In": Part 2
- Record yourself
- Up the neck, part 1: "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
- Up the neck, part 2: "Skip to My Lou"
- "Old Dan Tucker"
- Changing a string
- Working on speed
- ArtistWorks and Next Steps
