New bluegrass banjo instruction manual for BEGINNERS:
"Beginning Bluegrass Banjo:
A Programmed Repertoire of Ten Essential Solos"
to order email click here... BenFreed@optonline.net
Thirty five pages of clear instructions designed for beginners with tablature and CD on how to play 10 classic bluegrass banjo solos, including the following:
Cripple Creek, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Blackberry Blossom, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Ballad of Jed Clampett, John Hardy, Turkey in the Straw, and Whitewater
These are all standard and popular solos that are often played at jam sessions.
The instructional technique used in the manual is a series of 15 short lessons that teach these classic bluegrass banjo solos constituting a beginner's repertoire. The program is not bogged down with music theory. The purpose is to get the beginning player picking as soon as possible.
The accompanying CD has 30 tracks including comments on technique and all the tunes played at normal speed and then again at a nice slow speed. At both speeds, the banjo is recorded on one channel and the back-up on the other so you can turn down the banjo and play along with the backup. There are even tracks on how to tune the banjo.
(See below for the table of contents)
This is a self-published work. It is mailed in the form of 35 photocopied pages that you can insert into a binder, along with a 30 track CD.
I guarantee your satisfaction.
Contact Ben for a copy. Send $25 cash or personal check made out to Ben Freed, includes shipping.
(If you are outside of the USA, the cost is $35 (only cash, please; my bank does not accept foreign checks) includes shipping.
send payment to
Ben Freed
45 Evergreen Row
Armonk, NY
10504
Questions? click here to email Ben at.... BenFreed@optonline.net
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"Beginning Bluegrass Banjo: A Programmed Repertoire of Ten Essential Solos
Table
of contents
Lesson 1: Banjo
anatomy, and your first banjo
Lesson 2: Tuning
the bluegrass banjo
Lesson 3:
Getting ready to play
Lesson 4: How to
read the tablature in this book
Lesson 5:
Suggestions for beginners
Lesson
8: Blackberry Blossom
Lesson
9: Ballad of Jed Clampett
Lesson
10: Old Joe Clark
CD tracks
1.
the
“note matching” method of tuning the banjo
2.
tuning by
listening to the octaves
3.
tuning by
listening for the “racetrack song”
4.
counting
the timing
5.
putting
the right and left hand notations together
6.
“hammering
on”
7.
the
“slide”
8.
the
“push off”
9.
sustain
10.
using a
metronome
11. Cripple Creek fast. download this Mp3 from the instructional CD; banjo on one channel, band on the other
12.
Cripple
Creek, played slow
13.
Foggy
Mountain Breakdown, played fast
14.
Foggy
Mountain Breakdown, played slow
15.
Blackberry
Blossom, played fast
16.
Blackberry
Blossom, played slow
17.
The
Ballad of Jed Clampett, played fast
18.
The
Ballad of Jed Clampett, played slow
19.
Old Joe
Clark, played fast
20.
Old Joe
Clark, played slow
21.
John
Hardy, played fast
22.
John
Hardy, played slow
23.
Salt
Creek, played fast
24.
Salt
Creek, played slow
25.
Turkey in
the Straw, played fast
26.
Turkey in
the Straw, played slow
27.
Clinch
Mountain Backstep, played fast
28.
Clinch
Mountain Backstep, played slow
29. Whitewater, played fast
30. Whitewater, played slow
For your copy of the book and CD, Send a personal check for $25 to
Ben Freed
45 Evergreen Row
Armonk, NY
10504
Questions? click here to email Ben at.... BenFreed@optonline.net
Ben's personal bluegrass banjo tab collection...99 songs!!..(not for beginners)