Introduction to bluegrass banjo...

FREE first lessons for beginners, right here!!!

Learn to play "Cripple Creek" on five-string banjo, "Scruggs-style".

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your host and banjo teacher, Ben Freed

Let's get started learning bluegrass banjo, "Scruggs Style".

Mp3 of Ben playing Cripple Creek ...You will learn to play this song using these free lessons  

This site is designed to help you get up and running on bluegrass banjo, beginning with the song "Cripple Creek". IT'S FREE! I assume you have never played the banjo before and will teach you most everything you need to know to get started playing, concentrating on this first song in the bluegrass banjo repertoire. 

 

  1. Buying your first bluegrass banjo

  2. Tuning the banjo

  3. Posture and the right and left hands when picking banjo

  4. How to use the fingerpicks   

  5. How to read tablature

  6. Special left hand movements: sliding, pushing-off and hammering

  7. Now let's learn to play Cripple Creek!!

  8. Watch a VIDEO of me giving an overview of how to play Cripple Creek on YOUTUBE

  9. Words of advice about practicing  

  10. The economy of motion: some advanced ideas about technique

  11. Timing

  12. Find a bluegrass banjo teacher in your area

  13. Article: the basics of bluegrass banjo set-up

  14. Maintaining Banjo Strings and Picks 

  15. Recommended classic bluegrass banjo recordings

  16. Now for your beginning repertoire:  a manual for beginners: learn ten essential bluegrass banjo solos 

  17. Transitioning to the next level on bluegrass banjo: moving beyond the beginner level

  18. free videos on line to learn bluegrass banjo

  19. Ben's personal bluegrass banjo tab collection...99 classic solos!!..(not for beginners)

  20. Watch videos of my students play the banjo

Ben's banjo CDs for sale

NEW!!.....Ben's Hot Licks for Advanced Players!

 Ben's bluegrass banjo instruction manual for beginners...10 bluegrass banjo standards...

Hey!  I give bluegrass banjo lessons in my home studio  in Armonk, NY. (near White Plains, NY.... benfreed@optonline.net 

ben's bluegrass banjo tab collection..99 tunes for intermediate level players

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