Newport Sessions: Béla Fleck - “A Banjo Crashcourse”
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2022
- Béla Fleck joins Chris Funk backstage at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival to talk through banjo fundamentals.
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I bought a $90 Banjo from Wal-Mart. I learned to play a few licks and chords. I brought that thang to Bonnaroo 2008 and Bela Fleck signed it with a sharpie!!!!! Huzzah!!!!
Thank you for sharing this Bala Fleck, I have listened to your style for forty five years
He’s the best I ever heard. He learned from the then master but accelerated so far beyond. Noam is gaining.
Bella, not Scruggs, is who I originally sought to play like. I’ll never be there. Both are wonderful, and brought so much to the banjo. No body can play like Bella or Earl. 🙏🏻
Bela is like EVH,Jimi and Zappa rolled into one for us banjo junkies
One of the very best musicians on the planet....I've seen Bela with New Grass Revival back in 1992 or so and the Flecktones a couple years later....freaking incredible!!!
Bela is the MAN!!!
What a humble genius
I wanted to add banjo to my repertoire, so I bought a pretty nice one in January 2023. I am as good today as I was then. 😢 Banjo is hrrrrd.
This video is a treasure! What a privilege to hear first hand from Béla how he got to this point in playing the banjo.
Great interview with examples.
To date myself, watching Bela Fleck do, for him, simple work on his banjo reminds me of watching Willie Mays handle routine fly balls in Candlestick park. They both make it look so easy, and it is until you try it.
2 people are my inspiration to learn the banjo... Béla, and my dad. 2 totally different styles, but both awesome in their own right.
Bela is so engaging, affable... casual... unassuming, yet... the consummate professional and fount o' knowledge. Oh, think he won a few Grammys?
What a wonderful stream of consciousness
Victor Wooten (I hope I have this spelt right) this is where I had learned of Bela Fleck. I had bought a book The Music Lesson. I had eventually learned that Wooten worked heavily with Dave Mathews. Having the book I looked into Victor Wooten. The guy does bass. Amazing.
The effortless, rolling Scruggs-esque rendition of Baa Baa Black Sheep was a fun and welcome surprise.
Thank You!
the 2 songs that made me love banjo - enough to actually learn it - are the Beverly Hillbillies theme (Ballad of Jed Clampett?) and Big Country. From Earl to Bela. Course I will never play like Earl or bela, but danged if I don't try.....
Wonderful interview.