HOMESPUN
Taught by Bill Keith
Level 2
60-min. video

This unique lesson in basic music theory will help you find melody and harmony notes and understand the banjo fingerboard in a way that will open up vast possibilities. Combining this knowledge with basic rolls, harmonized scales, pentatonic runs and licks, and more will allow you to develop powerful and creative bluegrass solos.

Bill Keith is one of the living masters of bluegrass banjo and the inventor of the melodic picking technique widely referred to as "Keith Style." He has toured and recorded with top bluegrass bands (including Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys), as well as with artists such as Jonathan Edwards, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins, The Kweskin Jug Band, Muleskinner, David Grisman and Richard Greene and The Grass is Greener. Bill has written several banjo tuition books, has recorded instructional tapes (for Homespun), and co- authored the Earl Scruggs instruction book and record. In addition, Bill owns and operates the Beacon Banjo Company in Woodstock, NY.