Free Online Banjo Lessons

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Columbia Public Library, 100 W. Broadway, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call 443-3161, or visit www.dbrl.org .

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Friends of Columbia Public Library lobby book sale noon to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. All proceeds support library services.

You’ve got your e-reader, now what? 2:30 to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Learn how to use the library’s new OverDrive eBook service to read books on your Sony Reader, Nook or Kobo (or on your PC or Mac computer). Learn how to set up your e-reader for this service when you get home. Please register.

Self-guided computer tutorials 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday or 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday. Learn at your own pace with these tutorials on the Windows operating system for beginners and intermediate users. Choose from these lessons: Mouse Tutorial, Basic Skills, Computer Basics, Files and Folders, Exploring the Web, Outlook Express Basics and Basic or Intermediate Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. We’ll offer a Windows 7 tutorial beginning in July. Please bring headphones or purchase a set for $1.50. You also can use the practice tests and study resources of Learning Express Library during these lessons.

Skype for beginners 2:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday. Learn how to set up Skype, free software that allows you to make free computer-to-computer voice calls to anywhere in the world. Basic computer knowledge is required. Please register.

Literary Journeys book share 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Take a literary journey with other readers by sharing a favorite title. Bring your book and give a brief summary and some reasons why you loved it. Enjoy casual conversation and refreshments while discovering the places reading can take you.

Party with the stars 8 to 9:30 p.m. Friday. Why does summer start at this time of year and what does astronomy have to do with it? You’ll start indoors with a slide presentation on what makes summer and then move outside to view Saturn through the telescope. Hosted by Val Germann of the Central Missouri Astronomical Association. Enter through the Gene Martin Secret Garden, west end of the main library parking lot.

Steve Martin Teaches Banjo Lessons Online | Guitar Center

It’s not everyday that you have the opportunity to get banjo lessons from Renaissance man and award winning banjo player Steve Martin but one website has changed all that.

Napa, California (PRWEB) June 23, 2011

It’s not everyday that you have the opportunity to get banjo lessons from Renaissance man and award winning banjo player Steve Martin but one website has changed all that. The Tony Trischka School of Banjo has a series of online lessons from guest Steve Martin where he demonstrates and breaks down how to play ‘Hide Behind A Rock’, a track from his new album ‘Rare Bird Alert’. Students can even watch the videos in slow motion along with hundreds of other beginner, intermediate and advanced banjo lessons available on the site.

Bringing bluegrass music to new audiences, Steve Martin is a passionate ambassador for the genre and the Tony Trischka School of Banjo has become the number one destination for people wanting to learn the instrument online. The School of Banjo is part of the ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass, which also includes schools for mandolin, fiddle, guitar and bass. The innovative online music academy gives students the opportunity to send their teacher a recorded video of themselves practicing and receive personal feedback and individualized instruction in the form of a Video Response. These videos are then paired and posted in the online Academy’s Video Exchange™ library, available to all enrolled students.

Tony Trischka is perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. He is not only considered among the very best pickers, he is also one of the instrument’s top teachers, and in 2009 created the Tony Trischka School of Banjo online. Tony Trischka produced ‘Rare Bird Alert’, the new album by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, which includes guest performances by Sir Paul McCartney and the Dixie Chicks.

You can get a sneak peak of the Steve Martin lessons and sign up at http://www.tonytrischkaschoolofbanjo.

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