ArtistWorks Joins World’s Leading Online Music Education Alliance
We are excited to announce that ArtistWorks has officially joined a consortium of major online music education companies, which includes TrueFire, JamPlay, and FaderPro. The collective are all portfolio companies of private equity firm, Growth Catalyst Partners. These four firms provide musicians around the world with music instruction on dozens of instruments and genres while delivering access to Grammy Award-winning artists, top session players, and world-renowned educators.
ArtistWorks Joins World’s Leading Online Music Education Alliance
We are excited to announce that ArtistWorks has officially joined a consortium of major online music education companies, which includes TrueFire, JamPlay, and FaderPro. The collective are all portfolio companies of private equity firm, Growth Catalyst Partners. These four firms provide musicians around the world with music instruction on dozens of instruments and genres while delivering access to Grammy Award-winning artists, top session players, and world-renowned educators.
So long, Byron Berline
On the weekend of July 11, 2021, I learned that one of my greatest musical heroes, Byron Berline, had passed on.
Here's an appreciation from my good friend and great fiddler Matt Glaser:
I first heard Byron Berline in 1972. I was 16 years old, and had been playing the fiddle for 3 years. I worked a part-time job at the Katonah Public Library, re-stacking bookshelves, and doing a bit of incompetent gardening.
One day, while slacking off at work, I was leafing through records. Here’s one by The Flying Burrito Brothers. On the back cover there were pictures of the musicians, mostly hippies, but not this one guy -”Byron Berline, Fiddle”—he is pretty clean cut, and smiling like a madman. Hmm….looks interesting. I’ll think I’ll sign it out.
I remember walking the mile or so back home, going upstairs to my room, and putting the record on the turntable. The tune was Dixie Breakdown. And then….. what? The Big Bang? Being born, but for real? My head exploding? I had never heard ANYTHING like that….and I still have not recovered. I can trace the entire trajectory of my life to that moment--the moment where Byron injected his radioactive sound into my brain.
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New Course: Announcing “Bluegrass Mandolin with Sierra Hull”
We are thrilled to announce our newest course coming August 2021, Bluegrass Mandolin with Sierra Hull.
New Course: Announcing “Bluegrass Mandolin with Sierra Hull”
We are thrilled to announce our newest course coming August 2021, Bluegrass Mandolin with Sierra Hull.
New Podcast: David Butler – Make it a Musical Summer
In this week’s episode of the ArtistWorks Music Series podcast, ArtistWorks CEO Patricia Butler sits down with David Butler, Chairman and co-founder of ArtistWorks, creator of Video Exchange Learning, and our Beginner’s Guide to Acoustic Guitar instructor, to discuss the best ways to make your summer season musical. Together, they explore the benefits of playing music outdoors, getting together with friends to perform, and discovering new outlets to infuse your summer with more music. The show is available wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can listen here at ArtistWorks.
New Podcast: David Butler – Make it a Musical Summer
In this week’s episode of the ArtistWorks Music Series podcast, ArtistWorks CEO Patricia Butler sits down with David Butler, Chairman and co-founder of ArtistWorks, creator of Video Exchange Learning, and our Beginner’s Guide to Acoustic Guitar instructor, to discuss the best ways to make your summer season musical. Together, they explore the benefits of playing music outdoors, getting together with friends to perform, and discovering new outlets to infuse your summer with more music. The show is available wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can listen here at ArtistWorks.
Banjo Lesson: Right Hand Positioning with Tony Trischka
It may seem like a simple concept, but understanding the proper approach to positioning and planting your right hand is one of the most critical, if not the most important, first steps when learning how to play the banjo. Right hand positioning and technique impacts your time, dexterity, stamina, speed, tone, and even your tuning. In fact, it’s the foundation on which you will build all your other performance skills. So, getting this crucial technique mastered is extremely important.
Banjo Lesson: Right Hand Positioning with Tony Trischka
It may seem like a simple concept, but understanding the proper approach to positioning and planting your right hand is one of the most critical, if not the most important, first steps when learning how to play the banjo. Right hand positioning and technique impacts your time, dexterity, stamina, speed, tone, and even your tuning. In fact, it’s the foundation on which you will build all your other performance skills. So, getting this crucial technique mastered is extremely important.
Acoustic Bluegrass Bass Lesson: Finding Your Playing Position with Missy Raines
The acoustic upright bass, or double bass, is a large instrument, and its sheer size alone can be daunting for players approaching the instrument for the first time. Unlike the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar, or any of the other instruments that make up a bluegrass ensemble, the upright bass not only requires an understanding of how to hold the instrument in order to play it but also how to position the instrument around or against your body.