good book?
mcnewsxp
beginner musician, but for sure banjo newbie.
tia,
klaw
Ken Blake
What style of banjo playing do you want to learn? Bluegrass?
Clawhammer, Four-string? Something else?
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Ken Blake
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heh
i can finger pick a guitar ok. travis style and others. just sayin my
fingers have been trained to obey a bit. clawhammer is pretty strait
forward isn't it?
so i guess some sort of bluegrass style would be the way for me to go.
Ken Blake
wrote:
It sounds like you think clawhammer playing is a lesser, easier method
than bluegrass. I don't agree at all. They are just different.
Personally I play some of each, but I've been working on clawhammer
more lately, and I'm better at it than bluegrass. And I like it better
than bluegrass.
If you're interested in learning to play clawhammer, I recommend Ken
Perlman's "Clawhammer Style Banjo." If you'd rather learn bluegrass, I
don't have a good recommendation for you, so wait for someone else to
respond.
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"Ken Blake" <kbl...@kb.invalid> wrote in message
just thumb finger finger thumb finger finger? i will check out your
recomendation. from the looks of things it may be the only one i get. ;^)
thanks much!
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Well - Heres a recommendation from Denmark.
I have read, and used, several books about learning to play the bluegrass
banjo.
The ones I think the most useful, are written by Janet Davis and Tony
Trischka respectively.
Tony Trischka are good, but I find Janet Davis even better.
She has books for both the beginner, and for the more advanced player.
It should be easy to find the titles on the net. f.ex.: Mel Bay.com
By the way: You can find plenty of instruction videos on the net to.
Regards
Egon
Paul Magnussen
> i was afraid i might have come off that way. so there is more to learn than
> just thumb finger finger thumb finger finger? i will check out your
> recomendation. from the looks of things it may be the only one i get. ;^)
> thanks much!
It's an old stand-by, but maybe Pete Seeger's tutor would be the thing?
There's a bit of everything in it. Then when you'd decided what
style you liked best, you could go on from there.
Paul Magnussen
mcnewsxp
i ordered one of the janet davis /mel bay beginner books.
jimmy
them all. or at least most of them.
I would recommend you check on Wayne Erbsen's site
http://www.nativeground.com/ He has without a doubt in my opinion excellent
material for bluegrass and old time music.
When I used his Old Time Fiddle book it helped me greatly with my banjo
playing...
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