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He is a five-string banjo player in the bluegrass music scene since the 1960s, founder of the Country Cooking and Hot Rize bands, Grammy nominee and educator, with several instruction books and videos on banjo and bluegrass, and a network of bluegrass jamming teachers called The Wernick Method.
Pete Wernick’s inventive and time-tested method harnesses students’ natural wish to play music in a small group setting. With basic skills and good guidance, students start making music and having fun — almost immediately.
Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick is renowned worldwide for his accomplishments and contributions to bluegrass music: the hot-picking force in several trend-setting bands including Hot Rize, respected author and teacher, songwriter, and long-term President of the International Bluegrass Music Association.
Pete Wernick is HR’s banjoist and I thought it appropriate, now that the band has reformed (if only for a short time) to look at one of his albums, this time with the short-lived Flexigrass. Wernick has always been known as an envelope-pusher and What The does exactly that.
Listen to What The on Spotify. Pete Wernick & FLEXIGRASS · Album · 2007 · 14 songs.