| Program #3 |
| Program #3 gets really interesting. It is devoted mostly to teaching you right hand techniques. These are all those interesting strokes, rolls, tremolos and syncopations that make the banjo such a unique instrument. You'll learn how to make an interesting, flashy arrangement, using your new knowledge of chords, strokes, and syncopations. By this time your friends will be begging you to play them your latest solos! Towards the end of Program #3 I explain the duo-banjo technique. This is the technique that makes it sound as if you're playing two banjos at once. We also go into more complicated syncopated strokes, many of them used by the top professional banjoists. Then I'll give you some hints on arranging your own solos. |
| "NOW YOU CAN PLAY THE BANJO" by Don Van Palta "The Flying Dutchman" INDEX TO PROGRAM #3 Richelieu Banjos Information Foreword Lesson 1, The Pick and How To Hold The Banjo Pictures Lesson 2, The Four Vibration Tremolo Lesson 3, Accents Lesson 4, "Beautiful Brown Eyes" Lesson 5, The Three Vibration Tremolo Lesson 6, The Two Vibration Tremolo Lesson 7, The Trill Lesson 8, The Glissando Lesson 9, "Just Let Me Play My Banjo" Lesson 10, Duo-Banjo Technique Lesson 11, More About Triplets Lesson 12, More Syncopated Strokes Lesson 13, The Arpeggio Lesson 14, Modern Chords Lesson 15, "Dancing Strings" |
| FOREWORD Welcome to "Now You Can Play The Banjo" Program #3. In Program #1 you got acquainted with the banjo and learned several chords. Then you practiced those chords by accompanying me on several songs and then learned to play two banjo solos. In Program #2 you studied some basic harmony and then really learned to find your way around the banjo. But it's this program that'll make a banjo player out of you! When you see a professional banjo player performing somewhere, what is it about his playing that sets him apart? I believe it's the excitement and variety that he or she is able to put into the performance. Where does this excitement come from? Part of it is the mental attitude and the variety of tunes the performer picks for that particular performance. But a big part of that excitement is the way those tunes were arranged, the rhythms, the strokes and syncopations that were put into the arrangements. This is what Program #3 is all about, the right hand technique. How to do the two vibration, three vibration and four vibration tremolos. You'll learn how to do those glissandos and trills and syncopations that you've heard other banjoists use, but never could duplicate yourself. In Program #2 you learned the tune "Just Let Me Play My Banjo". Starting out the video or DVD of this program you'll hear me play an exciting arrangement of that tune. Towards the end of this program I'll teach this same arrangement to you note for note and stroke for stroke. Once you know how to do these various strokes in one solo then it's much easier to put them into your other solos and add that special brand of excitement to your playing that has always been unique to the banjo. |
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