Banjo DVD's

Learn to play the banjo with just two fingers! Believe it or not, you CAN play the 5-string banjo. This simple approach is designed to make banjo playing immediately accessible to EVERYONE! If you've believed that you can't make music, this DVD will change your mind and bring the richness of music making to your life. Run time is 30 minutes.

Ever wondered how to properly set up a banjo for the best sound and playability? ...This unique DVD filmed at Eagle Music in March 2007, covers the entire footage of Greg Deering completely dismantling a Deering Deluxe banjo and re-building it on stage whilst answering questions from the audience and telling his banjo story at the same time. See more detaild below.

Renowned recording artist and banjo teacher, Tony Trischka, covers everything from holding the banjo correctly to melodic banjo style and standard bluegrass repertoire.

A step-by-step and note-for-note DVD tutor for the complete beginner. In this DVD Gerry O'Connor takes you from scratch, all the way form holding the pick to playing your first notes and finally your first tunes.

Join Swiss banjo player extraordinaire (Now living in North Carolina, USA), Jens Kruger, for an exciting journey into the art of five-string banjo. This outstanding lesson by a true virtuoso contains a wealth of ideas for players at all levels, and will help you expand your musical knowledge, build your technique and make your playing stand out from the crowd.

An instructional 2 DVD Set that starts from the beginning! Clawhammer From Scratch begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string banjo clawhammer style. Beginning at the beginning, Dan presents a brief history of the 5-string banjo then goes over the parts of the banjo, holding the banjo, right and left hand styles and his basic clawhammer strum. Even the strum is broken down into the steps of the finger and thumb.

You can make good banjo music almost immediately with this DVD! Pete Wernick has taught thousands of people, young and old, to play three-finger style bluegrass "Scruggs" picking. This super-easy lesson has been time-tested at Pete’s many workshops and music camps, and he will have you playing along in the very first minutes.

You'll learn them, note-for-note, just as they were played by some of the greatest players in the history of the instrument. Tony performs each tune with John McGann backing him on guitar. He then slows it down, going over the tricky spots and explaining all the right and left hand techniques you'll need to play the piece. 60 Minutes. Includes tab.

Get in on the jam session! Novice pickers can just grab an instrument, slip the DVD into the player and play along with confidence. Pete Wernick and his all-star team teach you the ins and outs of 'jam etiquette', along with the basics of music theory and important jamming hints.

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On this 95 mins long DVD, Jens shares his vast musical knowledge and masterly banjo techniques with the attending banjo students. He also explains his musical philosophy, and some of his worldwide musical experiences. Jens engages with his students with enjoyable humour and sincere humility.

It includes a broad discussion of Scruggs-style banjo playing with a brief introduction to melodic-style playing. Bluegrass standards such as Cripple Creek, Lonesome Road Blues, Little Maggie, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, and many others are taught in the lessons.

This is a DVD for anyone, beginner to advanced, with a desire to play this uniquely American music.18 songs and instrumentals are taught over 90 minutes. A tablature booklet is included.

With Pete 'Dr.Banjo' Wernick. Anyone with any instrument can join in with this Bluegrass jam session, even if you've never tried it before...all you need are four basic chords to play along with the band! 2 hours. Chords and lyrics enclosed.

This DVD guides the 5-string banjo player step by step in working out song arrangements from basic melodies in both Scruggs/bluegrass style and melodic/chromatic style. Based on her best-selling book of the same title. 65 min.

This special Krüger Brothers workshop DVD is focused on the virtuoso banjo playing of the Carolina King Jens Krüger! Filmed at Eagle Music in 2009.

Banjo virtuoso Jens Kruger has devised a unique and immediately satisfying way for beginners to get started. This easy but highly musical lesson will teach anyone - in minutes - to play the melodies to songs such as: Will the Circle Be Unbroken; Aunt Rhody; Grandfather's Clock; Wildwood Flower; Shady Grove and other favourites. 90 minutes, TAB booklet included on PDF file.

Pete presents hundreds of building blocks for creating classic licks, back-ups, chord progressions, rolls and solos for a complete understanding of the five-string banjo.

This 90-minute continuation of Wernick's 'road map to the banjo' will bring your playing to a whole new level as you learn to use his techniques in your favourite songs and instrumentals. Wernick introduces the big tree of licks, with ascending and descending runs, Scruggs and Reno-style riffs and methods to devise complete solos.

This is the second of two highly packed lessons that John Hartford recorded for Homespun. John Hartford once again passes on numerous ideas for the learning player. You'll add colour and excitment to your banjo solos with John's trademark chromatic scales, the famous ear-catching runs of his 'slide whistle' lick and his 'fiddle style' melodic playing, which you will learn to play anywhere on the fingerboard

This is the first of two highly packed lessons that John Hartford recorded for Homespun. Working with songs taken from his vast repertoire, he domonstrates rolls and licks along with important advice about getting a good tone, phrasing, accenting, using picks, playing backup and lots more. John reveals his personal tricks for playing fast, and illustrates how he 'plays the words' to a song to give his banjo solo depth and meaning.

Sooner or later every player must learn how to create his or her own solos in a jam session. These can be carefully built or improvised on the spot. Pete Wernick teaches how to get the most credible bluegrass Banjo sound, from the simplest 'placeholder' vamps to solos combining melody notes and licks with full rolls. Tab included on DVD.

Want to learn some fancy Scruggs backup? Here it is! Murphy teaches you five up-the-neck breaks, and then shows you how to add some cool Scruggs back-up licks to each song. Also includes a boogie-woogie vamp pattern. All carefully explained one note at a time. No Tab. Two-Dollar Bill, Mountain Dew, Worried Man, Do Lord, I Saw the Light.

A terrific lesson specifically devised for Banjo players that wish to sing and accompany themselves in the clawhammer style, featuring Grammy-winning performer Cathy Fink. 1 Hour 45 mins. Music and Tab enclosed.