Blockbuster First Week For Online Music Academy!

Academy of Bluegrass Has Good First Week Turnout!

Banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and bass players from around the world have been signing up in impressive numbers during a blockbuster first week for the new ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass online. Students from countries including the USA, Canada, Scotland, India, Greece, Norway, England, Germany, Italy and Spain have been flocking to the online music school where they can get One-to-One individualized instruction and personal feedback from a roster of award-winning Bluegrass luminaries. Within the bluegrass community the Academy has been seen as a huge step forward for the teaching of the genre online and helping to spread the music around the globe.
Speaking from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival where ArtistWorks are sponsors, CEO and founder David Butler said:

"The enthusiastic embrace of the Academy of Bluegrass online has been pure enjoyment. The students are jumping right in to the Video Exchanges and making new bluegrass friends from all over the world!"

The ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass consists of five schools: the School of Banjo with Tony Trischka, School of Mandolin with Mike Marshall, School of Fiddle with Darol Anger, School of Guitar with Bryan Sutton and School of Bass with Missy Raines.

The ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced players the most comprehensive Bluegrass curriculum in the world, as well as a full slate of interactive social features. The Academy also acts as a hub to encourage a close network and community centred around this great music tradition. Hundreds of instructional video lessons teach students everything from tuning their instruments, chords, scales and arpeggios to improvisation, bowing and picking techniques, and lots of great Bluegrass tunes. For maximum progress, students receive individualized feedback from their teachers via the ArtistWorks Video Exchange™ system. And students from all the Schools can meet and socialize at Academy of Bluegrass Hub.

You can learn more about the ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass by going to www.academyofbluegrass.com

ABOUT ARTISTWORKS®
The ArtistWorks online visual education format allows virtuoso musicians to “Teach the World” by presenting their full method, technique or curriculum in HD video to subscribing students of their sites. Simple webcams are used by the students to submit videos to the Artist through the site, for critique and guidance. The Artists easily review student-submitted videos using the ArtistWorks Video Management System (patent pending). These Video Exchanges™ are posted for all subscribing students to learn from the teacher and from each other. This groundbreaking use of video-exchange for the instruction of musical instruments has been implemented at theHoward Levy Harmonica School, Qbert Skratch University,Peery Piano Online, Andreas Oberg Guitar Universe and theMartin Taylor Guitar Academy.