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Tony Trischka Easy Banjo Solos

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When you learn from Tony Trishka, you learn from the teacher of
Bela Fleck. Bela was a young student who already knew
sophisticated jazz when he came to Tony. Tony had him rework his approach to classic bluegrass and "Voila, a power-hitter".

This book could properly be called "Classic Banjo Solos". If you want to learn classic bluegrass arrangements and licks that you can use, get this book and CD. Tony's arrangements are tasteful, imaginative, and sound terrific.

The arrangments sound much "cooler" than those in comparable intermediate banjo instruction books. Tony plays well on the CD and gets a good tone, that Stelling banjo stings like a bee - the performances make you just want to "get those pieces down".

To enhance this book, I recomend that you also get
"Rounder Banjo" on Rounder, a collection of Tony's favorite
banjo pieces and players. You will have fun recognizing licks in the book in their original songs, and also recognizing the players and songs that so clearly influenced Tony's conception
of straight bluegrass banjo playing.

Also, try to get Tony's "Hill Country" - Tony's straight bluegrass CD. You will be in good hands with the Master Teacher, and well positioned to explore and understand the styles of the players he cites.

If you have a chance to see Tony perform, GO.

I've only been a player for 5 months and I found this book/CD to be an awesome study guide. This is my second banjo book. I've got 4 of Tony's banjo solos mastered (although slower than Tony) and will probably get my favorite 15 conquered before moving on to my next book. I highly recommend this to any bluegrass banjo player wannabe.

good video for beginners only. Just as the name says "easy" banjo solos. If you are playing less than a year, this is good. (the Murphy Henry dvd's are better though)