Banjo Lessons
Gus Macmillan has played banjo professionally for 35 years, including 21 years touring Australia and 11 years touring America, Europe and Asia with the band Blue Grassy Knoll. He studied with banjo teachers in the USA in 2003, has taken masterclasses with Bela Fleck and Noam Pikelny, and won the two tune pick off at the 2005 Guildford Banjo Jamboree. He tailors the syllabus to each student, working on picking technique from the start and giving achievable tunes early, along with his own written out tunes and exercises, slow recordings and playlists drawn from YouTube and Spotify. Lessons run from a dedicated space at his home in Brunswick, with Zoom available for students outside the Melbourne metro area.
