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    The Absolute Beginners award-winning method has been designed to make learning the 5-string banjo easier than ever before! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing your first complete songs. Absolute Beginners Banjo gives you: An 'owner's manual' approach to the banjo; Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance; A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures to illustrate every step of learning; audio tracks to let you hear how things should sound, plus full-length accompaniments so you can play along!

    Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.


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Contents:

 

Online Audio Track Listing

Introduction

  • Practicing Tips

Types of 5-String Banjos

Parts of the Banjo

Strings and Things

Holding the Banjo

Tuning Your Banjo

  • Relative Tuning
  • Using an Electronic Tuner
  • Tuning to Other Instruments

Left-Hand Position 

Your First Chords

  • Chord Diagrams
  • The G Chord
  • The D7 Chord
  • Alternating between G and D7
  • The C Chord
  • Alternating between G and C

Let's Play!

  • Skip to My Lou
  • Man of Constant Sorrow
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Long Journey Home

The Right Hand

  • Picks
  • Right-Hand Positioning

The Alternating-Thumb Roll

  • Skip to My Lou (with Alternating-Thumb Roll

Reading Tablature

The Forward-Backward Roll

  • Man of Constant Sorrow (with Forward-Backward Roll)

Using Roll Patterns to Accompany Tunes

The Pinch Pattern

Mixing Rolls and the Pinch Pattern

  • Skip to My Lou (Alternating-Thumb Roll and Pinch)
  • Skip to My Lou (Forward-Backward Roll and Pinch)

Finding the Melody

  • Skip to My Lou (Easy Melody)
  • Skip to My Lou (Solo 1)
  • Skip to My Lou (Solo 2)

Let's Play with the Band!

  • Cripple Creek

Chord Dictionary

Congratulations

Additional Lyrics

About the Author

Discography

 

Absolute Beginners: Banjo

Absolute Beginners: Banjo

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SKU: 01-986403

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The Absolute Beginners award-winning method has been designed to make learning the 5-string banjo easier than ever before! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing your first complete songs. Absolute Beginners Banjo gives you: An 'owner's manual' approach to the banjo; Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance; A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures to illustrate every step of learning; audio tracks to let you hear how things should sound, plus full-length accompaniments so you can play along!

Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

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Contents:

 

Online Audio Track Listing

Introduction

  • Practicing Tips

Types of 5-String Banjos

Parts of the Banjo

Strings and Things

Holding the Banjo

Tuning Your Banjo

  • Relative Tuning
  • Using an Electronic Tuner
  • Tuning to Other Instruments

Left-Hand Position 

Your First Chords

  • Chord Diagrams
  • The G Chord
  • The D7 Chord
  • Alternating between G and D7
  • The C Chord
  • Alternating between G and C

Let's Play!

  • Skip to My Lou
  • Man of Constant Sorrow
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Long Journey Home

The Right Hand

  • Picks
  • Right-Hand Positioning

The Alternating-Thumb Roll

  • Skip to My Lou (with Alternating-Thumb Roll

Reading Tablature

The Forward-Backward Roll

  • Man of Constant Sorrow (with Forward-Backward Roll)

Using Roll Patterns to Accompany Tunes

The Pinch Pattern

Mixing Rolls and the Pinch Pattern

  • Skip to My Lou (Alternating-Thumb Roll and Pinch)
  • Skip to My Lou (Forward-Backward Roll and Pinch)

Finding the Melody

  • Skip to My Lou (Easy Melody)
  • Skip to My Lou (Solo 1)
  • Skip to My Lou (Solo 2)

Let's Play with the Band!

  • Cripple Creek

Chord Dictionary

Congratulations

Additional Lyrics

About the Author

Discography

 

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