Tony Interviews Danny Barnes at RockyGrass 2016
Wed, 12/07/2016 - 5:23pm
This is a really fun interview Tony did with highly acclaimed banjo player Danny Barnes in the ArtistWorks RV at RockyGrass 2016. Danny Barnes is a banjo player, singer, and composer whose music is influenced by country, jazz, blues, punk, metal, and more. He has been described as a "banjo virtuoso" and is "widely acknowledged as one of the best banjo players in America. In September 2015, Barnes was awarded the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, in recognition of his role as "one of bluegrass music’s most distinctive and innovative performers." This interview series is in 3 parts and runs about 24 minutes in total including Danny performing some original tunes.
Find in the +Music area of the Learning Channel or just click here!
New Intermediate Lessons + More Peter Rowan
Thu, 12/01/2016 - 1:13pm
We've added more of Tony's discussion with Peter Rowan, find it in the +Music Area (or you can just click here). Also, there's a new lesson series in the Intermediate lessons: 20,000 Leagues Under the Banjo. Filmed here in the ArtistWorks studios recently, Tony shows you how to use the low end of the neck and lower octaves to add variations to common tunes and breaks. The first 2 lessons are available now and have slow motion performance isolations in both overhead and side views as well as tablature. Find them in the Learning Channel or just click the images below!
Tony Trischka with Peter Rowan - Part 1
Tue, 11/22/2016 - 6:44pm
The much anticipated interview series Tony did during his last studio visit with Peter Rowan is now available in it's first installments. The first 4 parts of this interview are up in +Music / Special Guests. This first batch includes a duet performance of "Rain and Snow" followed by the first 20 minutes or so of discussion covering many interesting topics and anecdotes. We'll trickle more pieces out each week till the end of the year (this was a long interview with many parts to it.) Click here to check it out!
Interview with Tony Trischka & Peter Rowan Coming Soon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:03am
Tony Trischka was in the ArtistWorks studio recently filming new banjo lessons and for some of them he was also joined by longtime friend and collaborator, the legendary Peter Rowan.
Here's some of the topics they covered in the new lessons: tunes, techniques (more on hammer-ons and slides), modal study, picking and pick placement, banjo rolls (including an exercise to practice "all roll combos" together as a warm up), a Stravinsky classical piece, useful licks, methods for expanding your solo/improv range, how to blend Scruggs & Melodic style playing to your advantage, and more!
And if that wern't enough, there's also an exlusive interview with Peter and Tony where they discuss all sorts of fun things (including some entertaining stories about Peter's time playing with Bill Monroe as a member of the iconic Bluegrass Boys). We'll upload all the videos soon, in the meantime you can see a short clip of them recoding together in the studio which we broadcasted live from our Facebook page.
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