Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News: Introducing Banjo Legend Tony Trischka's Online School Of Banjo

Bob_Cherry wrote: on Nov. 08, 2009:

Banjo Virtuoso Tony Trischka opened his powerful and unique online banjo school today: the Tony Trischka School of Banjo. The site integrates Tony's unparalleled 40+ years of playing and teaching banjo with the most advanced technology in online video exchange lessons. The result is the world's most powerful online banjo school, and possibly the most effective banjo school in existence. Tony's site also boasts a complete set of social networking features, giving the new school a second identity as a worldwide community for banjo players--a powerful social network just for banjo enthusiasts.

Responding to an extraordinary worldwide demand for an online subscription-based school for learning banjo, Tony partnered with ArtistWorks Inc., producers of the video technology used on the site. Tony comments, "Drawing from my career of teaching banjo, I've recorded over 155 lessons on beginning, intermediate and advanced banjo playing on high definition video. Students from any country in the world can study the self-paced lessons. When ready, they record themselves practicing the lesson and upload it using a very simple, but fast video system provided on the site. With ArtistWork's record-and-upload-anywhere video technology I can quickly record my response to the student while I'm on the road or at home."

The TonyTrischkaSchoolofBanjo.com also breaks ground in musician social networking. Built into the site are rich social media features for student members: a Shout-Out board to give quick comments to all students on the home base page, an expandable Forum for announcements and conversations and Chat for real-time instant messaging amongst members. Tony says, "My site's social networking features make it the perfect environment for worldwide banjo students to share the joy, camaraderie and history of banjo playing and roots traditions. It's as if banjo playing is getting a new historical dimension."

ArtistWorks' powerful new technology enables Tony (from anywhere on the road) to use video to interact with students; review their video submissions and quickly respond to them with high-quality video recording and/or written responses. These student/teacher video exchanges also become Master Classes on the site for all students to view and learn from. As Tony comments, "My School of Banjo is an enormous leap beyond any other online banjo-teaching site."

Artistworks, the innovative online video-based learning company, has partnered with Tony Trischka, legendary banjo recording artist, performer, composer and educator, to open the most advanced online banjo school available.

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