How to Play the 5-String Banjo – Pete Seeger
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!
Produced by Smithsonian/Folkways and Homespun Video
Reviews:
“Equal parts performance, commentary, recollection, and solid instruction. A”
– Entertainment Weekly
“Seeger opens a treasure chest full of informational gems for the musician. An exquisitely valuable videotape about how he makes music on the banjo. It is a program that has a place in the collection of every 5-string player or anyone else who loves the instrument.”
– Bluegrass Unlimited
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