Power Pickin’ III

Published by Brance on July 14th, 2005
Filed under Studio News

We have just finished the DVD authoring for a new release from AcuTab Publications. This new banjo instructional DVD, Power Pickin’ III, features Bill Evans teaching you how to combine the up the neck backup techniques taught in Power Pickin’ I with the first position backup taught in Power Pickin’ II.

This was a fun project. For the “band” demonstration sections we had quite a group of musicians in the studio. Kenny Smith played guitar. Herschel Sizemore played mandolin. Warren Amberson played bass and sang. And Nick Reeb played fiddle. A fine group indeed!

From the AcuTab website:

The mix of songs includes a variety of keys and tempos, allowing Bill to demonstrate a wide range of backup techniques and styles.

After the presentation of each tune, Bill then analyzes and demonstrates the techniques he employed, playing the examples slowly and often in a split screen setting to make them easy to learn. A tab booklet with many examples from the tunes will also be included.

This should be a great piece of instructional material for an intermediate level banjo player wishing to expand his backup skills. I believe they are still working on the tab book to accompany this DVD, but it should be available soon. I’ll keep you posted.