Product Description
Avram Siegel provides detailed step by step instructions to start your journey into playing the 5-string Banjo. Avram covers all the fundamentals of proper form as well as numerous techniques used by manyof the world's famous Bluegrass Banjo players. Learn: Tuning Scales Chords Patterns Slides Forward Rolls Backwards Rolls Hammer On's Pull Off's Tag Licks You will also learn many classic Bluegrass Songs! Also Includes: Bonus Lessons, A 70 page interactive On-Screen reference library, and Exclusive Access To Online Downloads
Customer Reviews:
Beginning Banjo - Avram Siegel.......2007-04-20
Beginning Banjo gives you almost 2 hours of lessons. The instructors
pace was not too fast for me so you should be able to follow him pretty
well. Once he plays the songs for you, he breaks it down for you into
sections with explanations of his techniques. The instructor starts
with the basics of Banjo playing; tuning, scales and basic chords. you
also learn techniques like rolls, hammer-ons and pull-offs. I like the
bonus section the best because that has all of the lessons in a library
sort of format that you can flip through as you need to. This DVD
reference library feature should be plenty to get you going considering
it was about 60-70 pages long and had many songs such as: Fireball
Mail, Bile Them Cabbage Down, Worried Man's Blues, Liza Jane, Cripple
Creek and more. I would consider the DVD well worth the price.
Description
Take a lesson with America's most beloved banjo picker! You'll learn the techniques Pete uses to make songs come alive-- up-picking, frailing, whamming, double-thumbing, hammering-on and pulling-off, two- and three-finger picking and more.
Pete teaches more than a dozen songs including "Darlin' Cory," "Lady Gay," "Risselty Rosselty," "Sloop John B.," "Dink's Song," "Leather Britches," "Coal Creek March," "In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down," "Quite Early Morning" and "East Virginia," among others. This video will make an enlightening and valuable part of your music collection, even if you don't play the banjo!
Customer Reviews:
This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender. .......2007-04-28
I consider this DVD a must-have for any Pete Seeger fan. He sings and plays entire songs, so it makes it great for musicians or people looking just to be entertained. If you're looking to learn how to play banjo, and are not familiar with a stringed instrument, getting this dvd only will leave you slack-jawed. You'll have to buy his book "How to Play the 5-String Banjo" to get started. In this dvd he shows strumming styles, picking styles, how to make extra sounds with your left hand, and many other things. He plays many songs including "Ode to Joy", and a wonderful blues song...who woulda thunk, blues on the banjo? It is awesome. (And btw, a xeroxed copy of his book is NOT included with the dvd, as someone stated in another review. It is a small book of banjo tablature of some of the songs on the dvd. )
Worth Buying.......2006-10-02
A few of these reviews are a bit unfair. Imagine footage of Einstein late in his career. Every story he told would be priceless. It would be unrealistic, however, to expect a lecture on physics 101. This is such a nice DVD of the grand old man of American folk music. He has been like a geological force (as Lee Hayes put it) in American music. Sit back and enjoy this one-on-one visit with Pete. No, he's not going to tell you to put your middle finger here on the third fret, etc. -- but who cares.
This is NOT an instructional DVD!.......2006-09-25
I love Pete Seeger. He's a national treasure. BUT this DVD is mistitled. It's not an instructional DVD at all. Anyone who is looking to learn the banjo should look elsewhere.
Not useless.......2006-04-18
The title is taken from Seeger's long-standing book on how to play the 5-string banjo, a xeroxed copy of which is provided with the VHS version of this video (and, I assume, with the DVD as well). If you work through the book, the video can be very useful, but it is not your typical Homespun instructional tape. Without the book, the video is still a nice look at the variety of styles Seeger plays, but it has very little instructional value.
DO NOT BUY THIS DVD!!!.......2005-11-07
This DVD is entitled "How to Play the 5-String Banjo" but the title is very deceiving. It is a one hour of Pete Seeger playing songs and reminiscing. He gives absolutely NO information on what he is doing and a lot of what he plays is quite advanced.
If you are new to the banjo and looking for some guidance on how to play, this DVD will be useless to you. I watched it once (fast forwarding through the parts where he is singing) and threw it in the trash.
Sorry to be so harsh, but I don't want anyone who is looking to learn some basic (or even advanced for that matter) banjo skills to waste their money on this item.
DVD:
- Barbie in The Nutcracker
- Beginning Bluegrass Banjo, Vol. 1 with Greg Cahill
- Beginning Country Bluegrass Fiddle
- Beginning Drums the Fun Approach
- Beginning Rhythm Piano Volume 2
- Bellini - Norma / Anderson, Barcellona, Hoon, Abdrazakov, Biondi, Teatro Regio Parma
- Bells Are Ringing
- Belly Dance Your Way to a Feminine TOTAL BODY WORKOUT
- Belly Dance Your Way to Your Soul Mate
- Best Picture Collection - Musicals (An American in Paris/Gigi/My Fair Lady)
DVD
DVD
General
| Music Video & Concerts
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Beginning Banjo: For 5-String Banjo
Get Rolling! An Ultra-Easy, No Fail Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo
Farley's PocketTones Banjo Tuner
DVD-Beginning Bluegrass Banjo
A Manual on How to Play the 5-String Bango for the Complete Ignoramus
