good book?

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Dec 31, 2010, 10:14:39 AM12/31/10

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anybody reckomend a good banjo book and/or dvd for beginner? i am not a
beginner musician, but for sure banjo newbie.
tia,
klaw

Ken Blake

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Dec 31, 2010, 12:56:25 PM12/31/10

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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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"Ken Blake" <kbl...@kb.invalid> wrote in message
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erm ... yes

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

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 14:23:55 -0500, "mcnewsxp" <mcbass...@yahoo.com>
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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

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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!

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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

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Jan 6, 2011, 12:01:29 PM1/6/11

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mcnewsxp wrote:

> 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

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Jan 7, 2011, 8:21:40 AM1/7/11

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thanks folks.
i ordered one of the janet davis /mel bay beginner books.

jimmy

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Jan 25, 2011, 1:03:25 PM1/25/11

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There are many excellent book and CDs DVD combo's out there, I may have
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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H.-J. Hofmann

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Jan 28, 2011, 7:36:02 AM1/28/11

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Which sort of banjo?

HJH