THE ARTISTWORKS ACADEMY OF BLUEGRASS presents the most comprehensive beginner, intermediate and advanced two-way video lessons for guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and bass combined with online chat, forums and exclusive interviews accessible 24/7.
The AAOB consists of: The School of Banjo with Tony Trischka, School of Guitar with Bryan Sutton, School of Fiddle with Darol Anger, School of Mandolin with Mike Marshall, and The School of Bass with Missy Raines. Each individual school contains hundreds of high quality video lessons starting at the Beginner level and progressing to Advanced. All schools connect to the AAOB Hub where players of all instruments can come together to share ideas and the love of bluegrass.
Unlike other video-based sites, AAOB schools offer much more than one-sided learning. Each student has the opportunity to send their teacher recorded videos of themselves practicing and receive personal feedback and individualized instruction from the teacher through video responses. These videos are then posted for the entire school to view and learn from as “Video Exchanges”.
Membership Plans include 3 months for $90, 6 months for $150 and 1 year for $240
News and Updates
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The Technology
Our Learning Approach:
Our Learning Approach
The AOB consists of five academies, divided by instrument. Each of the five award-winning AOB musician/teachers presents a separate, encyclopedic curriculum of their instrument. All levels, from beginner to extremely advanced, are covered in the curriculum. The curriculum is divided into dozens of "bite-sized" lessons. These lessons were custom-created especially for the AOB and are not available anywhere else.
How the Classes Work
How it Works:
How It Works
The AOB utilizes ArtistWorks' award-winning Video Exchange approach to online learning. Learning via Video Exchange gives students the unique ability to receive specific feedback and guidance from a virtuosic teacher of their instrument. It works like this: A student enrolls in one of the ArtistWorks' Academy of Bluegrass schools, and begins to work on the material, material that was especially created by their teacher.
The Sponsor
Meet our Teachers:
Meet our Teachers
The ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass includes an All-Star Cast of Bluegrass Teachers as heads of each of the AOB Schools. Each of the AOB faculty was hand picked not only because they are great players but also great teachers. Meet the AOB Teachers:
Tony Trischka, banjo
Bryan Sutton, guitar
Darol Anger, fiddle
Mike Marshall, mandolin
Missy Raines, bass
Andy Hall, dobro
About the Artist
The History of Bluegrass:
The History of Bluegrass
The various types of music brought with the people who began migrating to America in the early 1600s are considered to be the roots of bluegrass music---including dance music and ballads from Ireland, Scotland and England, as well as African American gospel music and blues.
While many fans of bluegrass music date the genre back to 1939, when Bill Monroe formed his first Blue Grass Boys band, most believe that the classic bluegrass sound jelled in 1945.