HOMESPUNTaught By Tony Trischka.
Level 2
CD plus 32-page tab book
Strengthen your skills while building a repertoire of great bluegrass banjo pieces!
Tony Trischka has personally chosen twenty traditional banjo solos that will
teach you new ideas and add to your arsenal of licks and techniques.
You'll learn as you play along with this unique CD. Tony performs each tune slowly, then up-to-speed, providing invaluable tips and explanations as he goes. By the time you have mastered all of these solos you1ll have acquired the basic skills necessary to play in the styles of Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Sonny Osborne and other bluegrass greats.
Here are the twenty tunes you'll soon be playing at jam sessions, picking parties and in bluegrass band situations:
Shortenin' Bread, Ground Hog, Shady Grove, Train 45, Sally Johnson, Wildwood
Flower, Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms, Pretty Polly, Nine Pound Hammer, Sitting
On Top of the World, John Henry, Little Liza Jane, Casey Jones, Little Maggie,
Back Up and Push, Redwing, Little Rabbit, Uncle Joe (Hop High Ladies), Alabama
Jubilee, Cumberland Gap.
Tony Trischka is one of America's most dynamic and inventive players. He has
made fifteen albums, both solo and with his band Skyline, and has toured and
recorded with Country Cooking, Psychograss and Grass Is Greener, among others.
As a studio musician and accompanist he has played on countless other recordings.
He has made numerous television appearances and has toured in most of the countries
of the world. A dedicated teacher of banjo, he has written six books for Oak
Publications and has given numerous banjo clinics at major festivals, schools
and workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad.
"My springboard was Tony Trischka, and without Tony, none of what's happened with my music would have happened."