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5-String Banjo Videos
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Within each group, the videos appear in order from beginner through advanced levels.
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"Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos" "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 Click here to order online!

Tony Trischka's Essential Practice Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo from Janet Davis Music, The Banjo Store. 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

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 Click here to order online!

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 Click here to order online!

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 Click here to order online!

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 Click here to order online!

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 Click here to order online!

Clawhammer - Style Banjo By Ken Perlman
B-HL0118 BOOK: $12.95 Click here to order online!


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 Click here to order online!

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