Product Description

Do You Want To Discover The Secrets To Quickly And Easily Mastering Techniques, Playing Your Favorite Banjo Songs, And Sounding Like A Pro?

Whether you an beginner or intermediate banjo player, these techniques will produce positive immediate results!

What if you could use one DVD and learn everything you needed to know to start playing some of your favorite songs on the banjo? Now, you can master those bluegrass favorites as well as all the techniques used to play practically every popular banjo song out there!

Beginning Banjo is 110 minutes of easy-to-digest techniques to instantly start your journey into playing the 5-string banjo! Instructor Avram Siegel lends his teaching abilities to many banjo camps in America and overseas. Now, for the first time in this DVD, he presents all the fundamentals of proper form as well as numerous techniques used by many world famous banjo players.

Learn:

*Tuning
*Scales
*Chords
*Patterns
*Slides
*Forward Rolls
*Backwards Rolls
*Hammer On's
*Pull Off's
*Tag Licks

Learn How To Play:

*Bile 'em Cabbage Down
*Worried Man Blues,
*Liza Jane
*Cripple Creek
*Cumberland Gap
*Down The Road
*Fireball Mail
*Old Joe Clark
*Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
*Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Here is a summary of the benefits you receive:

1) 110 Minute Running Time

Hundreds of dollars worth of private lessons all in one DVD!

2) Interactive Lesson Library

Quickly review your new techniques and songs at your own pace with a touch of a button!

3) Numerous Chapter marks

Save time by zooming directly to any technique you want!

5) Digitally Recorded

Vivid picture quality for easy-to-see instruction, not a repackaged old VHS transfer!

6) Picture In Picture Instruction

Some techniques require close attention to your picking hand... not a problem with the "picture-in-picture" feature!

7)Included .PDF File Containing Banjo Tablature

Additional adobe .pdf file included in Beginning Banjo allows you access and print all the lessons in this DVD

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34759 in DVD
• Brand: MUSIC VIDEO DISTRIBUTORS
• Released on: 2006-08-14
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 110 minutes

Features

• Learn Bluegrass Banjo today! 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 many of the world's famous Bluegrass Banjo players. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSIC DVD Rating: NR Age: 388007514578 UPC: 388007514578

About the Actor
Avram Seigel is a guest instructor with many years of expertise who has taught at many instructional seminars in America and overseas .

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Customer Reviews

Beginning Banjo - Avram Siegel
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.

I'm no expert but....
I knew someone dead set on playing the banjo. I stressed learning the guitar instead because the banjo seemed a great deal more difficult with the fingerpicking and metal picks on your fingers and all. I figured if this is what they want to learn then I will get them something to get them going. I suggested this DVD and I was surprised with the positive feedback on the gift. they seemed to pick up some of the techniques pretty good and they liked the amount of content in the DVD compared to another one they picked up. So I would recommend this DVD.

This dvd stinks
You should get something else, this dvd was done in one take, lot's of use of the word um. There's better free lessons on youtube.