The Complete 5 String Banjo Player

Tony Trischka

Overview

Banjo expert Tony Trischka hosts the at-home instructional video The Complete 5-String Banjo Player. Designed primarily as a tool to impart the fundamentals of banjo performance to novice players, the program covers such elements as holding the banjo and controlling the style of melodies. Trischka also addresses and teaches such techniques as hammer-ons and offs, the G chord, the backward and forward rolls and neck playing.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/14/2007
UPC:	0752187441571
Original Release:	2007
Source:	Music Sales
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	74,114

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tony Trischka

Host

Technical Credits

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- The Complete 5 - String Banjo Player
1. Basic Concepts [1:06]
2. Getting Started [:06]
3. Open G Tuning [:32]
4. G Chord [:15]
5. D7 Chord [:35]
6. Buffalo Gals [:35]
7. C Chord [:28]
8. Amazing Grace [:31]
9. Preparing to Pick [:04]
10. Right-Hand Position [1:19]
11. Finger Picks [:50]
12. Shortenin' Bread [:27]
13. Cripple Creek [:20]
14. Rolls [:09]
15. Alternating-Thumb Roll [:55]
16. Good Night Ladies [:24]
17. Roving Gambler [:24]
18. Forward Roll [1:06]
19. Roving Gambler [:31]
20. Loch Lomond [:35]
21. Shady Grove [:16]
22. Backward Roll [1:10]
23. Roving Gambler [:23]
24. Forward-Backward Roll [1:01]
25. Hard, Ain't It Hard [:32]
26. Osborne Roll [1:36]
27. Shortenin' Bread [1:07]
28. Old Joe Clark [1:03]
29. Left-Hand Techniques/Slide [:30]
30. 2-3 Slide [1:10]
31. Good Night Ladies [:51]
32. Mixing Note Values [:07]
33. Adding Quarter Notes to Eighth Notes [:37]
34. Cripple Creek [:27]
35. Key of C and I-IV-V [1:14]
36. F Chord [1:12]
37. Skip to My Lou [:33]
38. Wildwood Flower [1:49]
39. Pull-Off [1:09]
40. Dance [:44]
41. Buffalo Gals [2:16]
42. Hard, Ain't It Hard [:26]
43. Hammer-Ons [1:34]
44. Corn Liquor [:28]
45. Boil 'Em Cabbage Down [:23]
46. Melody: Playing the Syllables [1:12]
47. Red River Valley [:36]
48. Long Journey Home [:23]
49. Rhythm Accompaniment [:20]
50. F-Position G Chord [:32]
51. F-Position D Chord [:16]
52. Damping Technique [:39]
53. Playing up the Neck [1:21]
54. Spanish Fandango [2:38]
55. D-Position G Chord [:05]
56. F-Position C Chord [:09]
57. Bar D Chord [:11]
58. Boil 'Em Cabbage Down [:16]
59. Goodnight Ladies [:13]
60. Advanced Rolls/The Backward-Forward Roll [:35]
61. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean [:52]
62. Long Journey Home [:21]
63. Playing Down the Neck [:59]
64. Old Joe Clark [:35]
65. John Hardy [:21]
66. Foggy Mountain Breakdown Roll [2:23]
67. Whoa Mule Whoa [1:08]
68. Train 45 [:50]
69. Playing in the Key of D [:21]
70. Shortenin' Bread [:44]
71. Boil 'Em Cabbage Down [1:01]
72. Wildwood Flower [:53]
73. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down [:21]
74. The Melodic Style [:45]
75. G Scale [:44]
76. Buffalo Gals [2:43]
77. Devil's Dream [1:05]
78. Chipping Norton [:58]
79. Cripple Creek [:22]
80. Blending Scruggs and Melodic Styles [:13]
81. Cripple Creek [:25]
82. Camptown Races [:44]
83. Arkansas Traveler [:48]
84. Little Maggie [:54]
85. Salty Dog [:22]
89. Final Word [:23]
90. Blackberry Blossom [1:30]

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