...free web pages to learn bluegrass banjo...
your host Ben Freed
2. Ten essential bluegrass banjo solos: a manual for Ben's beginning students
4. Free: bluegrass banjo hot licks for intermediate and advanced players
5. International list of bluegrass banjo teachers
"Ben is the real deal".... American Idle Review in BNL.pdf
That's me on the cover of the Banjo Newsletter
contact Ben benfreed@optonline.net
NY Post review of Ben's new CD, American Idle: Jan 11, 2011: 3 1/2 STARS Banjo player Ben Freed, one of the top players on the New York bluegrass circuit, has always put out good recordings, but "American Idle" is not only a terrific collection of original instrumental string-band music, his production values are high throughout. The sound of Freed working with a full bluegrass band is crisply recorded, and his picking is flawless as he rambles from dark, jazzy melodies like "Ghost Dance" to playful banjo riffage on "Foggy Mountain Shakedown." In many ways, Freed is rivaling the contemporary masters of the banjo (such as Bela Fleck) with fresh music that has an old-time quality.
NY area teachers of Old time music and Bluegrass
banjo lessons with Ben in Westchester County
Recording resume: film soundtracks(Raising Arizona), The Simpsons(Season 18, episode 22 " You Kent Always Say What You Want"), TV commercials, The Waverly Consort, PBS soundtrack, off-Broadway, and independent self-released original recordings...
email me at benfreed@optonline.net
for NY area bluegrass events try Roots and Blues calendar
also check out the following: http://www.nycbluegrass.com/
WOW!! Ben's personal bluegrass banjo tab collection...99 classic solos!!..(not for beginners)
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