Melodic and Single-String Banjo Workshop
with Bill Evans
Peghead Nation is excited to announce an eight-part live Zoom workshop series taught by Peghead Nation banjo instructor Bill Evans, called Melodic and Single-String Banjo. The series is designed for intermediate to advanced banjo players. The live sessions will be held every other Saturday from 10 am to 11 am PST (1 pm to 2 pm EST), starting on Saturday January 22, 2022 and ending on April 30, 2022. Video recordings of each session will be available to all students so you can review what you've learned or catch up if you miss a session.
In this Live Workshop, Bill will introduce you to the two bluegrass banjo techniques that were added to Scruggs-style to create exciting bluegrass music from the 1950s to the present day.
In melodic-style, you’ll explore the technique, theory, and repertoire (first developed by Bill Keith and others in the early 1960s) that allows you to play consecutive scale notes on different strings. In addition to the basics of the technique, Bill will explore different keys and advanced melodic positions that players like Noam Pikelny, Tony Trischka, Béla Fleck, and most contemporary bluegrass banjo players use.
In single-string, you’ll learn to play the banjo as if you were playing with a flatpick, using an alternation of thumb and index finger to play melodic lines. Bill will start with basic exercises and then explore scale positions based on chord positions in closed and open positions, in different keys, and up and down the neck.
The workshop will consist of four sessions on melodic style and four sessions on single-string, starting, in each case, at the very beginning. But players already familiar with melodic and/or single-string banjo can gain valuable insights from Bill’s introductory sessions. From there, Bill will introduce more advanced repertoire and technique. In addition to learning repertoire and a variety of licks, you’ll come away from this workshop with a deeper understanding of melodic and single-string banjo that will undoubtedly add a whole new dimension to your playing.
ABOUT BILL EVANS
Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies author Bill Evans is one of the best and most experienced bluegrass banjo teachers & workshop leaders in the world. His instruction is practical, down-to-earth and designed for the adult learner. Bill has spent fifty years studying the intricacies of Earl Scruggs’ banjo style and has co-produced instructional materials with banjo legends Sonny Osborne and J. D. Crowe. He has produced eight instructional DVDs for Homespun Tapes, the Murphy Method and AcuTab, is the co-author of Parking Lot Picker’s Songbook: Banjo Edition from Mel Bay Publications and has taught thousands of students from all over the world. Bill also hosts the Beginning Banjo and Bluegrass Banjo courses online at Peghead Nation. His professional students include Chris Pandolfi (The Infamous Stringdusters), Wes Corbett (Sam Bush Band), Erik Yates (Hot Buttered Rum) and Jayme Stone. He currently performs with guitar legend and Walnut Valley favorite Dan Crary and hosts camps event in California and New Mexico. Learn more at www.billevansbanjo.com and to view performances and workshops, visit his YouTube channel.
ABOUT ZOOM
If you’re new to Zoom, before you can attend the workshop you will need to make sure you have a Zoom account, which you can get at https://zoom.us/, and have downloaded and tested the Zoom client for whatever device you’re going to be using.
You should also test your audio and video beforehand. Please don’t interrupt the workshop to ask how to use Zoom. You will be automatically muted when you enter the meeting, and we ask that you use the chat window to ask questions, as there may be a lot of people in the workshop.
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