Search - Banjo Lessons: Learn how to play 5 string Bluegrass Banjo, Bluegrass songs instructional lesson video. on DVD

Beginning Banjo - Avram Siegel

Tammie Snyder | 04/19/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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....

Kevin Theiss | St Louis, MO | 06/07/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."