Advanced Techniques For The 5-String Banjo

What you'll learn
Play Challenging Arrangements of Tunes
Learn to Improvise
Add Color to your Solos
Fretboard Geography
Advanced right Hand Patterns
Requirements
You will need to own a 5-String Banjo and Finger Picks. Know basic rolls and chords
Description
Take your Playing to New Levels! In this Course, you will learn many of the essential techniques and musical ideas that have helped me in my 20 year career as a Bluegrass Banjo player. You will learn challenges arrangements of tunes such as Blackberry Blossom, Crazy Creek, Bill Cheatum, Red Haired Boy, 8th of January and more. You will learn hot licks for improvisation. You will learn Diatonic Triads to help you understand the geography of the fretboard. You will learn advanced right hand patterns so you can get out of the same old habits! I will discuss the use of triplets so you can learn to add new time values into your solos. You will learn the modes of the major scale including Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian and how to use them. You will learn new chord inversions such as 7th Chords and how to apply them to solos. You will also learn how to add color into your solos by superimposing chord and scale tones to give them a more interesting sound. This course features multiple camera angles to give you a clear viewing experience. There is also downloadable tablature so you can follow along note for note. With regular practice I know this course will add lots of new and exciting techniques to your playing. Enjoy and keep picking! Chris Elliott
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Section 2: Diatonic Triads
Lecture 2 Diatonic Triads 1st Inversion
Lecture 3 Diatonic Triads 2nd inversion
Lecture 4 Diatonic Triads 3rd inversion
Section 3: Advanced right hand patterns
Lecture 5 Pseudo classical Pattern
Lecture 6 Targeting Chords using the Shelton Roll
Lecture 7 Modern Melodic scale pattern
Section 4: Single String concepts
Lecture 8 Modes of the Major Scale
Lecture 9 Enclosures
Lecture 10 8th of January single string style
Section 5: Triplets
Lecture 11 Chordal Triplets
Lecture 12 Triplet Blues
Lecture 13 Melodic Triplets
Section 6: Adding Color to Your Solos
Lecture 14 Adding color G and F
Lecture 15 Adding Color G and B flat
Lecture 16 Adding Color G and D flat
Lecture 17 G7 Chord inversions with rolls
Lecture 18 2 measure Blues Licks G to C
Section 7: Melodic Style Fiddle Tunes
Lecture 19 Bill Cheatum
Lecture 20 Blackberry Blossom
Lecture 21 Red Haired Boy
Lecture 22 Crazy Creek
Anyone looking to take their 5-String Banjo Playing to new Levels

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