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Learning to play Banjo

geetarman	Date: September 7, 2004 @ 7:33 AM What is the best book or other sources for the self-taught person.
gstring	Date: October 1, 2004 @ 4:48 PM Murphy Henry Beginning Banjo Vol. 1 Banjo Encyclopedia by Ross Nickerson Earl Scruggs and the Five String Banjo---hard to find but worth it. url
geetarman	Date: October 5, 2004 @ 8:31 PM Thank you very much gstring
leflaw	Date: October 6, 2004 @ 6:57 PM Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo is the bible.
sqrlcub	Date: October 7, 2004 @ 2:52 PM How to play the 5 string banjo by Pete Seeger is supposed to be very good as well and is readily available through Amazon.com.
fanch-t	Date: October 13, 2004 @ 12:00 PM my favorite learning tool is the "just pick it up and play it 'til it sounds okay, or your fingers bleed" method. sure books and lessons are fine if you ACTUALLY wanna know what you are doin', but really, who wants that? why would you wanna learn the Jim-Bob Skruggs Method for Banjo, when you could be creating the Geetarman Method for Banjo?
fanch-t	Date: October 13, 2004 @ 12:01 PM forgot to say that i am in no way accomplished or even very good at any of the instuments i play.
geetarman	Date: November 8, 2004 @ 8:39 AM I just got a Mel Bay's, "Fun With The Banjo". It's a great little book! Although, the pictures must be 50 years old!
geetarman	Date: November 15, 2004 @ 6:58 PM ??? is this some kind kind of terret syndrome???
povertystricken	Date: November 22, 2004 @ 3:25 PM
mikehock	Date: January 15, 2005 @ 12:53 PM One must take the instrument in your house, takes the instrument in its heart, lungs, mouth and feets. This goes well to a part of you, an extension, which produces so much the joy, and hound import. Play as a close experience in order to receive the noise. Only then you to begin can as to play the instrument at the full capacity that it is a procedure, that by the tardiness simply reached can not.
leflaw	Date: January 30, 2005 @ 9:00 AM Banjo ( scruggs style ) summary 5 strings. Forward roll with thumb 1 and 2 t12t12t12t12 Reverse Roll 21t21t21t21t Forward reverse roll T12t( on string 5) 21 Thats it.
jerseyguy	Date: October 5, 2006 @ 3:24 PM You can check out this great site that has banjo for beginners/self taught. It has experts teaching you by free videos. Lemme know what you think. http://hobbies.expertvillage.com/interviews/banjo-beginners.htm

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