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5-String Banjo Videos NOTE: Videos are grouped by Publisher. Within each group, the videos appear in order from
beginner through advanced levels. Homespun Videos Instructional & Entertaining
All Homespun Videos are
on special! SALE: $31.95 each or see price
listed beside each video.
"Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos" taught by Tony Trischka
Tony teaches eleven classic pieces, note for note, just as they were
played by some of the greatest players in 5-string 3-finger style
history. Played slow and up to speed. Songs include: John Henry (Earl
Scruggs), Sitting On Top fo the World (Alan Shelton), Gold Rush (Vic
Jordan), Bye Bye Blues (Alan Shelton), Dixie Breakdown (Don Reno), Old
Home Place (J.D.Crowe), Salt Creek (Bill Keith), Casey Jones (Bobby
Thompson), Clinch Mountain Backstep (Ralph Stanley), Little Maggie (Bill
Emerson), Doug's Tune (Doug Dillard). Includes tablature!
DVD-641567 Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos-Trischka DVD List:$29.95 Special:$23.97 Tony Trischka's Essential Practice Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Here's a nuts and bolts practice session that's a "must have" for all
bluegrass banjo players. Tony Trischka's lesson is designed to improve
the banjo player's timing, strengthen hands and help play with
precision.
It is filled with:
etudes
workouts for both left and right hand
building blocks of bluegrass banjo
This in-depth session will help achieve:
sinewy slides
crisp pull-offs
powerful hammer-ons
locked-in right hand patterns
The student will learn to straighten out his or her time so it's
consistent and even. Tony shows how to identify downbeats, upbeats and
in-between beats while playing increasingly tricky rolls. A great
lesson for maximizing practice time. Tony divides each proactive
session into discrete sections.
DVD-641547 - DVD$23.97 The Banjo According To John Hartford
Licks, Ideas and Music with tablature book.
John provides words of advice for everything from using a metronome
and tape recorder for practice to detailed instruction on dancing while
playing the banjo. Songs include Leather Britches (back-up), Goin' Back
to Dixie, Cacklin' Hen, Annual Waltz, Your Tax Dollars At Work, Lorena,
Boogie and Foggy Mountain Landscape, and more. V-641445 Double Video Set!
Vol 1 and Vol 2. Two Videos. Your Price:$39.95 GET ROLLING! By Pete Wernick
An Ultra-Easy, No-Fail Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo
60 Minute Video--Gets you started strumming & accompanying ten bluegrass
standards with only two chords.
Getting started this way is extremely effective in learning timing, left
hand, and "ear" skills. Pete shows more
roll patterns--the forward roll and others. Includes Tom Dooley, Take Me
Back to Tulsa, Long Journey Home,
Foggy Mountain Breakdown, When the Saints Go Marching In and others.
V-641486 Your Price:$16.95 5-STRING BANJO for BEGINNERS: Taught by Happy Traum Easy, hands-on lessons. Learn right-hand picking patterns,
hammer-ons, slides & pull-offs, et al. Songs: My Home's Across The
Smokey Mountains, Handsome Molly, Cumberland Gap, Jesse James, Black-Eyed
Susie, Banks Of The Ohio 90 MIN VIDEO (Includes Music + Tab) LEVEL l V-641338. Reg.$24.95 SPECIAL: Your Price:$24.95 HOW TO PLAY THE 5-STRING BANJO Taught by Pete Seeger - With special guest appearance
by Doc Watson America's most beloved banjo picker teaches his techniques:
up-picking, frailing, whamming, double-thumbing, hammering-on & pulling-off,
2-finger & 3-finger picking--plus more than a dozen songs. Produced
by Smithsonian/Folkways & Homespun Video.
60 MIN VIDEO (includes Tab) LEVEL 2 V-641116. . . .List: $29.95 . . . . . . . . Your
Price:$24.95 Clawhammer - Style Banjo By Ken
Perlman B-HL0118 BOOK: $12.95 BLUEGRASS BANJO TUNES & TECHNIQUES Taught by Tony Trischka With David Grier, guitar, & Andrea Zonn, fiddle.
Learn how the bluegrass masters get their distinctive sound & style.
Tunes include John Henry, John Hardy, Nine Pound Hammer, Cross-Eyed Cricket,
Soldier's Joy, Liza Jane, Weeping Willow, Bluegrass Blues, Little Maggie,
Leather Britches. Includes mail-in card for free "Homespun Practice Tracks"
audio cassette featuring back-ups to all tunes taught on the video.
90 Min VIDEO (incl. tab + practice tape) LEVEL 2/3 V-641121: $39.95...Special: Your Price:$31.95
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